The Live-Action HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON Movie Casts Its Hiccup and Astrid
A few months ago it was announced that DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon was getting a live-action remake. The film is in the middle of casting and it’s been announced that Mason Thames and Nico Parker have been cast as the live-action versions of Hiccup and Astrid.
Thames is best known for starring in The Black Phone and Parker portrayed Sarah Miller in the premiere episode of HBO's The Last of Us and also has appeared in films such as Dumbo and The Third Day. They both seem like great choices for the lead roles!
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 focused 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.
This will be the first time that an animated DreamWorks franchise is being reimagined in live-action. They are just following Disney’s lead, who has seen a lot of success from their remakes.
Source: Deadline