How to Train Your Dragon (2025 film)

How to Train Your Dragon is an upcoming live-action remake action fantasy drama film loosely based on the 2003 book of the same name by Cressida Cowell. it is a live-action adaptation of DreamWorks's 2010 animated film of the same name, produced by DreamWorks Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Little Witch Pictures and Marc Platt Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures.

Plot
The Viking village of Berk is frequently attacked by dragons, which steal livestock and endanger the villagers. Hiccup, the awkward 15-year-old son of the village chieftain, Stoick the Vast, is deemed too weak to fight the dragons. Instead, he creates mechanical devices under his apprenticeship with Gobber, the village blacksmith, though Hiccup's inventions often backfire. Hiccup uses a bolas launcher to shoot down a Night Fury, a rare and dangerous dragon, but cannot bring himself to kill the creature and sets him free. Before leaving with his fleet to find and destroy the dragons' nest, Stoick enters Hiccup in a dragon-fighting class taught by Gobber with fellow teenagers Fishlegs, Snotlout, twins Ruffnut and Tuffnut, and Astrid, on whom Hiccup has a crush. Failing in training, Hiccup returns to the forest and finds the Night Fury trapped in a cove, unable to fly because Hiccup's bolas tore off half his tail fin. Hiccup gradually befriends the dragon, naming him 'Toothless' after his retractable teeth, and designs a harness and prosthetic fin allowing Toothless to fly with Hiccup riding him. Learning dragon behavior from Toothless, Hiccup is able to subdue the captive dragons during training, earning admiration from his peers but suspicion from Astrid. Stoick's fleet returns home unsuccessful, though he is gladdened by Hiccup's unexpected success in dragon training. Hiccup is judged the winner of his training class and must kill a dragon for his final exam. He tries to run away with Toothless, but Astrid ambushes him in the forest and discovers the dragon. Hiccup takes Astrid for a sunset flight to demonstrate that Toothless is friendly, but Toothless is hypnotically drawn to the dragons' nest. There, a gargantuan dragon named the Red Death summons the smaller dragons to feed it live food to avoid being eaten themselves. Realizing the dragons have been forced to attack Berk to survive, Astrid wishes to tell the village, but Hiccup advises against it to protect Toothless. In his final exam, Hiccup faces a captive Monstrous Nightmare dragon and tries to subdue him to prove that dragons can be peaceful. When Stoick inadvertently angers the dragon into attacking, Toothless escapes the cove to protect Hiccup but is captured by the Vikings. After Hiccup accidentally reveals that Toothless knows the location of the dragons' nest, Stoick ignores his son's warnings about the Red Death and disowns him, setting off for the nest with Toothless chained to the lead ship as a guide. Hiccup is devastated, but Astrid prompts him to realize that he spared Toothless out of compassion, not weakness. Regaining his confidence, Hiccup shows Astrid and their friends how to befriend the training dragons, and they set out after Toothless. Stoick and his Vikings locate and break open the dragon's nest, awakening the Red Death, which soon overwhelms them. Hiccup, Astrid, and their friends fly in on the training dragons, distracting the Red Death. Hiccup attempts to free Toothless from the damaged ship; the two nearly drown, but Stoick rescues them, reconciling with his son. Toothless and Hiccup lure the Red Death into a dive before firing a fireball down its throat, killing it. In the ensuing explosion, Toothless shields Hiccup, but Hiccup loses his lower left leg and faints. Awakening sometime later, Hiccup finds that Gobber has fashioned him a prosthetic, and he is now admired by his village, including Astrid, who kisses him. Berk begins a new era of humans and dragons living in harmony.

Cast

 * Justin Timberlake as Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, the awkward son of Stoick the Vast.
 * Bella Thorne as Astrid Hofferson, Hiccup's fellow student in dragon training and his love interest.
 * Sylvester Stallone as Stoick the Vast, the chieftain of Berk and Hiccup's father
 * Kevin McNally as Gobber the Belch, Berk's blacksmith, a close friend of Stoick's and teacher of the tribe's young dragon-training recruits.
 * Philip Wiegratz as Snotlout Jorgenson, one of Hiccup's dragon-training classmates. Snotlout is brash, overconfident, and fairly unintelligent, but reliable.
 * Cole Jensen as Fishlegs Ingerman, an enthusiastic youth knowledgeable in dragon lore which he often relates in role-playing game style.
 * Ross Lynch and Lauren Taylor as Tuffnut and Ruffnut Thorston, a pair of quarrelsome twins.
 * Steven Spielberg as the vocal effects for Toothless the Night Fury.

Production
A live-action film unrelated to the animated trilogy was announced to be in Amblin Partners development. It will be produced by DreamWorks Pictures, Amblin Entertainment and Marc Platt Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures, with Dean DeBlois set to return to write and direct. It is scheduled for release on March 14, 2025.

Music
John Williams returned to DreamWorks Pictures and Amblin Entertainment to score How to Train Your Dragon, making it his collaboration with the studio, following E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, The Adventures of Tintin, Saving Private Ryan, and his previous score for The Fabelmans.

Release
A live-action reboot from DreamWorks Pictures and Amblin Entertainment is scheduled to be released on March 14, 2025.

Sequels

 * Main article: How to Train Your Dragon 2 and How to Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World