Gerard Butler is set to reprise his role as Hiccup’s father, Stoick the Vast, in Universal Pictures’ live-action adaptation of DreamWorks Animation’s classic film How To Train Your Dragon. He will join Mason Thames (The Black Phone) and Nico Parker (The Last of Us), who were previously cast as the live-action versions of Hiccup and Astrid.
The live-action How to Train Your Dragon will be written, directed, and produced by Dean DeBlois, who was behind the original animated films in the franchise. He’s making his live-action directorial debut with the movie. It will be produced by Marc Platt (Legally Blonde, Wicked).
This new movie is said to “adapt the trilogy of movies that were made by DreamWorks.” How to Train Your Dragon is based on the books by Cressida Cowell, and the story focuses on the special friendship between a young Viking boy named Hiccup and Toothless, an injured dragon he nurses back to health. It was a coming-of-age story that followed them on a quest to take on humanity’s prejudice against dragons.
It’s cool to see that Butler is going to reprise his role in the film, but there’s really no need to remake the movie in live-action. This is obviously a cash grab for the studio, as they’ve seen some of the success that Disney has had with their remakes.
The film is set to bow on June 13, 2025.
Source: Deadline
