The first trailer for the live-action How to Train Your Dragon has been released.
Universal Pictures is releasing a live-action How to Train Your Dragon remake movie in June 2025. Directed by Dean Deblois, the film stars Mason Thames as Hiccup, Nico Parker as Astrid Hofferson, and Gerard Butler as Stoick the Vast.
Check out the live-action How to Train Your Dragon trailer below (watch more trailers and clips):
What happens in the live-action How to Train Your Dragon trailer?
Much like the 2010 animated movie, the live-action How to Train Your Dragon trailer introduces audiences to Thames’ Hiccup, a Viking whose father, played by Butler, insists that he grows up and learns how to kill dragons. Hiccup intends to do so when he finds an injured Night Fury dragon who eventually becomes known as Toothless; however, he’s unable to do so and sets Toothless free, at which Toothless then allows Hiccup to touch his face.
“On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup (Mason Thames; The Black Phone, For All Mankind) stands apart. The inventive yet overlooked son of Chief Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler, reprising his voice role from the animated franchise), Hiccup defies centuries of tradition when he befriends Toothless, a feared Night Fury dragon,” the synopsis for the film reads. “Their unlikely bond reveals the true nature of dragons, challenging the very foundations of Viking society.”
Butler previously voiced Stoick the Vast in the first two animated How to Train Your Dragon movies, the second of which, How to Train Your Dragon 2, was released in 2014. There was also a third film, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, that was released in 2019.
The film, which is also loosely based on the book series by Cressida Cowell, is written, directed, and produced by Dean DeBlois, who co-directed the first How to Train Your Dragon movie with Chris Sanders before he helmed the two sequels by himself.
The cast of the movie additionally includes Nick Frost as Gobber the Blech, Julian Dennison as Fishlegs Ingerman, Gabriel Howell as Snotlout Jorgenson, Bronwyn James as Ruffnut Thorston, Harry Trevaldwyn as Tuffnut Thorston, and Ruth Codd as Phlegma.
The live-action How to Train Your Dragon movie releases in United States theaters on June 13, 2025, from Universal Pictures.
