How to Train Your Dragon: The First Trailer of Live-Action Gives the Same Emotions as the Animated Film?
The live-action version of How to Train Your Dragon will hit Italian theaters in the summer of 2025, and, in the meantime, the first teaser trailer of the long-awaited project inspired by the animated franchise by DreamWorks has been shared online. In the video, you can see the first meeting between the young protagonist, Hiccup, and the friendly Toothless, with whom the young man will live incredible adventures that will have a great impact on his world. We couldn’t believe it, but it seems that our hopes (and those of millions of fans) have been rewarded. The first teaser trailer of the live-action How to Train Your Dragon has just been released and it seems absolutely perfect in its visual fidelity. Universal Pictures has also shared a poster on its social channels in which we see Toothless and Hiccup on a cliff, while the release date is set for June 13, 2025, worldwide.
In the trailer, we see everything exactly as we remember it. The great cliffs of Berk, the seaside town where the Vikings of the film reside, the combat and training arena where Hiccup trains with his friends and which was anticipated by a first photo in the preview on Empire, and a vortex of dragons (including Horrific Nightmares, Gronkis, Deadly Hooks and the Horrifying Bizippos) in what seems to be the final scene, where we also recognize Stoick the Vast played by Gerard Butler (who already lent his voice in the animated version. Following a dialogue between father and son, we glimpse the first meeting between Hiccup and a tied-up Toothless and what is the most iconic scene of the original version, in which the boy advances his hand and the dragon approaches with its snout.
How to Train Your Dragon: The First Trailer of Live-Action
What worried fans from the first moments this live-action operation was announced was the possibility that it would have deviated too much from the original. Concerns were dispelled by the director himself, Dean DeBlois, who recently stated that for him it was essential to remain faithful to what was seen on screen in 2010. Another fear was related to the appearance of the dragon Toothless, since many non-human characters in Disney’s live actions either had an unsympathetic and excessively realistic or too cartoonish appearance, making the vision horrifying. Fortunately, not only from an aesthetic point of view, everything seems to have gone well, but also in terms of content and fidelity in the soundtrack and scenes.
The live-action How to Train Your Dragon will be released in all theaters on June 13, 2025. The director is Dean DeBlois (the same as the animated version by DreamWorks), and the cast is composed of Mason Thames in the role of the protagonist Hiccup, Gerard Butler in that of the father Stoick The Vast, Julian Dennison will be Fishlegs, Nick Frost is Gobber, the twins Ruffnut and Tuffnut will see the faces of Bronwyn James and Harry Trevaldwyn respectively, while Snotlout will be seen as Gabriel Howell and, finally, the beautiful and fearless Astrid will be played by Nico Parker.
What Does How to Train Your Dragon Tell?
The new version of the story is based on the 2003 book of the same name written by Cressida Cowell. How to Train Your Dragon will retell on the big screen the story of Hiccup, a young and awkward Viking from the village of Berk who struggles to impress his dragon-hunting fellow villagers and his father Stoick the Vast. The situation becomes worse when he befriends a friendly and friendly dragon, whom he decides to name Toothless. In the animated version of the story, the two must then join forces in a battle against a giant evil dragon known as the Red Death.
The Cast of the Film!
To produce the live-action version of the DreamWorks animated project, Universal Pictures has chosen a top-notch cast that includes Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gerard Butler, Nick Frost, Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn and Ruth Codd. Dean DeBlois, who wrote and directed Lilo & Stitch and the animated How to Train Your Dragon trilogy with Chris Sanders, is directing the remake, which has been described as a “Lion King-style adaptation” after initial test screenings took place in the United States a few months ago.
