Film by Dean DeBlois
How to Train Your Dragon is a 2025 American fantasy adventure film and a live-action remake of the 2010 animated film by DreamWorks Animation, itself loosely based on the 2003 novel by Cressida Cowell. The film was written and directed by Dean DeBlois, who co-wrote and directed the animated film, and stars Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gabriel Howell, Julian Dennison, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn, Peter Serafinowicz, and Nick Frost, with Gerard Butler reprising his role as Stoick the Vast.
Plans for a live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon were announced in February 2023, with DeBlois returning to write and direct. Veteran composer John Powell also returned to score the remake. Thames and Parker joined the cast in May 2023, with additional casting announced in January 2024. Filming began later that month in Belfast, Northern Ireland and wrapped in May. It is DreamWorks Animation's first live-action film.
How to Train Your Dragon premiered at CinemaCon on April 2, 2025, and was released by Universal Pictures in the United States on June 13. It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $636.4 million worldwide, becoming the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2025 and the second-highest-grossing live-action/animated hybrid of all time. It earned a nomination for Best Special Visual Effects at the 79th British Academy Film Awards. A sequel, How to Train Your Dragon 2, based on the animated film's 2014 follow-up is scheduled to be released on June 11, 2027.
Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.