Hold onto your horses! Or is that, hold onto your dragons! Because a live-action How to Train Your Dragon 2 movie is already on the way, complete with a release date, but… the first How to Train Your Dragon live-action film has not yet even been released in theaters. We haven’t even so much as seen Toothless and Hiccup together live-action style for more than a handful of minutes. But we guess Universal Pictures is betting big on dragons (and dragons are pretty popular) because the live-action How to Train Your Dragon 2 movie is flying our way in the summer of 2027.
At Cinema Con, Universal Pictures announced the live-action How to Train Your Dragon sequel movie was already a go. The first live-action How to Train Your Dragon film will release this summer, June 13, 2025. And not too long after that, Universal reveals the live-action How to Train Your Dragon 2 movie will release in theaters on June 11, 2027. We guess Toothless has been testing well with audiences, and he should, because he basically looks just like his original form.
Dean DeBlois will return for this How to Train Your Dragon sequel movie, along with cast members Mason Thames as Hiccup and Nico Parker as Astrid. We suspect Gerard Butler’s Stoick the Vast will also be back for another turn. Butler voiced Stoick in the animated version of the movie and will reprise the role in live-action form in the upcoming first film.
How to Train Your Dragon 2 was also originally an animated movie. It released in 2014 and included the voice talent of Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, and America Ferrera. In it, Hiccup and Toothless discovered a plot to create an army out of dragons. We’ll likely know more about what the plot of the live-action How to Train Your Dragon 2 movie entails once we’ve seen the first live-action film.
Writer and director DeBlois shared of the live-action return to How to Train Your Dragon‘s world. “With the rushed production schedule and the limited resources that we had on that first movie for DreamWorks, there were things that we skipped past that we could have maybe done a little more justice to — some of the characters, some of the depth of relationships and the immersive action. It’s a reimagining that holds quite faithful to the story and yet finds moments where we could enrich character relationships, give a bit of depth, give a little bit of mythology that might have been lacking in that original.”
We bet a live-action How to Train Your Dragon 2Opens in a new tab movie will give us even more space to enjoy the world we love.
