First Look at Hiccup and Toothless in Live-Action HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON Movie
Here’s our first look at the upcoming live-action film adaptation of How To Train Your Dragon which features Mason Thames (The Black Phone) as the young Viking Hiccup. We also have a few other photos that have leaked online that offer a look at the dragon Toothless.
The movie comes from director Dean DeBlois, who helmed all three animated films along with co-director Chris Sanders on the first film.
DeBlois talked about the film with Empire in an interview, and when talking about the scene where Hiccup has to pretend to face off with Toothless for the benefit of Berk’s dragon-fearing people, he said:
“It’s so dialed-up in terms of stakes — having a fully credible, photo-real dragon stomping around trying to kill him,”
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 Thames in the role, DeBois 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.
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’ quest to combat humanity’s prejudice against dragons, the ache of overcoming the loss of a parent, and first love.
The movie will be released on June 13th, 2025.