How To Train Your Dragon Live-Action Officially Wraps Filming

Summary

• Principal photography for the live-action
  How to Train Your Dragon
  remake has wrapped, with the movie set for release on June 13, 2025.
• Original director Dean DeBlois returns, giving hope that the same care will be applied to the live-action movie.
• The movie stars Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gerard Butler, and more.

Principal photography for the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon has officially wrapped. Based on the 2003 book of the same name by Cressida Cowell, the film will tell the tale of Hiccup, a young, clumsy viking from the village of Berk. Hiccup struggles to impress his fellow villagers of dragon hunters and no-nonsense father Stoick the Vast, and makes matters worse when he befriends a friendly dragon. The live-action version of How to Train Your Dragon will reportedly follow the story of the original animated movies closely. It is expected to be released on June 13, 2025.

The original director of the animated movies, Dean DeBlois, is returning to direct the live-action remake, and he took to Instagram to announce that principal photography for How to Train Your Dragon has wrapped. Check out the post below:

DeBlois said that the shoot was intense and exciting, praising the work done by his cast and crew. The post itself is a picture of a book with the symbol of a dragon embossed on the cover.

Can The Live-Action Remake Repeat The Success of The Original HTTYD Movies?

It Has Some Big Shoes To Fill

DeBlois’ return to the director’s chair suggests that DreamWorks and Universal are putting the same care they put into the animated films into the live-action remake.

The original animated How to Train Your Dragon was released back in 2010 and opened to critical acclaim and box office success. The first film received a nearly perfect score from critics on review-aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, and it grossed $494 million worldwide. The second installment, while it received a slightly lower Tomatometer, made $621 million worldwide. The success of the franchise prompted one more sequel, several TV spinoffs, and, ultimately, the live-action remake. Check out the table below for a review of the franchise’s Tomatometers:

Because of the success of its predecessors, the live-action version of How to Train Your Dragon has big shoes to fill. However, DreamWorks and Universal seem to be on the right track for the live-action remake’s success. The key point is that they’re bringing back DeBlois, the original director of the animated movies, to direct the remake. With his graceful handling of the animated How to Train Your Dragon movies, it’s likely that he’ll be able to channel that same energy toward the live-action version.

DeBlois isn’t the only franchise veteran returning for the live-action remake. Gerald Butler, who voiced Stoick the Vast in the animated films, is reprising his role as Hiccup’s father. The rest of the ensemble for the live-action film includes Mason Thames, Nico Parker, and Nick Frost. Butler’s return to the franchise will evoke a semblance of warmly welcomed familiarity to the live-action How to Train Your Dragon, and DeBlois’ return to the director’s chair suggests that DreamWorks and Universal are putting the same care they put into the animated films into the live-action remake.

Source: Dean DeBlois/Instagram