For the live-action reboot of the How to Train Your Dragon, Gerard Butler will be making a return. Butler, who performed the voice of chief Stoick the Vast in the animated films, will play the character again in the remake.
The live-action remake is currently slated to bow in theaters, June 13, 2025. Due to this Summer's SAG-AFTRA and WGA strike, the film was delayed from its original March 14, 2025 release date. Currently, Pixar's Elio is set to also be released on June 13, 2025. Two weeks later, Disney's live-action Moana remake will also hit theaters.
The live-action version will be written and directed by Dean DeBlois, who directed and wrote the three animation How To Train Your Dragon movies.
Hiccup will be portrayed by Mason Thames, who most recently starred in The Black Phone. Nico Parker (Thandie Newton's daughter), who portrayed Sarah Miller in The Last of Us, will portray Astrid.
Based on the critically acclaimed children's book series by Cressida Cowell, the animated film franchise has grossed $1.6 billion worldwide for Dreamworks.
Hiccup, a young Viking who befriends Toothless the dragon, is the main character of the animated film. Long-standing traditions of warfare between dragons and vikings, particularly within Hiccup's clan, are placed in doubt when Hiccup discovers that dragons are not as scary as people think.
Hiccup and Toothless' blossoming relationship demonstrated in the film series, has received praise for showing how an open mind can overcome prejudice and fear. The way Hiccup matures into a hero who defends his convictions in the face of opposition from everyone else is another reason why fans of the books and movie series love it.
How To Train Your Dragon Official Synopsis: A winning mixture of adventure, slapstick comedy, and friendship, How to Train Your Dragon rivals Kung Fu Panda as the most engaging and satisfying film DreamWorks Animation has produced. Hiccup (voice by Jay Baruchel) is a failure as a Viking: skinny, inquisitive, and inventive, he asks questions and tries out unsuccessful contraptions when he's supposed to be fighting the dragons that attack his village.
His father, chief Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler), has pretty much given up on his teenage son and apprenticed him to blacksmith Gobber (Craig Ferguson). Worse, Hiccup knows the village loser hasn't a chance of impressing Astrid (America Ferrera), the girl of his dreams and a formidable dragon fighter in her own right. When one of Hiccup's inventions actually works, he hasn't the heart to kill the young dragon he's brought down. He names it Toothless and befriends it, although he's been taught to fear and loathe dragons.