Cool Live-Action HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON Behind-The-Scenes Featurette
Universal Pictures has released great new featurette for the live-action How To Train Your Dragon movie and it offers a really cool and insightful behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film.
It features interviews with director Dean DeBlois, who helmed all three animated films along with co-director Chris Sanders on the first film. He explains why he came back to direct this live-action remake and whay he’s hoping to accomplish with it. It also includes interview with members of the cast.
The video also offers up some exciting footage from the movie, which was met with rave reactions after it premiered at CinemaCon.
Using the books by Cressida Cowell as a jumping-off point, How to Train Your Dragon focuses on the special friendship between a young and unheroic Viking boy named Hiccup, and Toothless, an injured dragon he nurses back to health.
The movies chronicled Hiccup and Toothless’s quest to combat humanity’s prejudice against dragons, the ache of overcoming the loss of a parent, and first love.
When talking about Hiccup, DeBlois says the character “represents all of the oddballs out there, and there are many of us.”
When talking about casting Mason Thames in the role, DeBlois said: “There was a bit of awkwardness, but also a vulnerability to him which [came] with the fact that he was 15 when we were auditioning him.”
The movie also stars Nico Parker (The Last of Us) as Astrid, Gerard Butler as Stoick the Vast, the leader of the Viking clan and Hiccup’s father, and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) as Viking named Gobber the Belch, the trusted friend and adviser of Stoick.
The movie will be released on June 13th, 2025.