Anyone who believed that only Disney can remake their own animation hits as live-action films is wrong. Because now Universal has made just that easy with the Dreamworks success of How to Train Your Dragon: How To Train Your Dragon comes as a live-action remake and the fantasy film even has a theatrical release date.
Fantasy remake: How to train your dragon “for real”
The dragons will be in the Fantasy remake Of course, it will still be animated, but real actors will stand by the eponymous creatures. Stars are currently not filled. The remake is again based on the book series * by Cressida Cowell.
The extremely popular animated film trilogy of How To Train Your Dragon (2010), How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) and How To Train Your Dragon 3 (2019) played in cinemas over 1.6 billion dollars and also spawned the animated series DreamWorks Dragons, Dragons: The Young Dragon Saviors and Dragons: The 9 Realms as franchises, and the short film How to Train Your Dragon: The Good Old Days.
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How to Train Your Dragon Made Easy in Oscar-nominated animated film the young Viking Hicks dreams of becoming a great dragon hunter, like his father Haudrauf. Because in his fantasy world, humans and dragons have been fighting each other for decades. Of all dragon species, the nightshade is considered the most dangerous. But when Hiccup encounters an equally injured specimen, he finds that he has more in common with the creature than he expected.
The script for How to Train Your Dragon Remake will be again Dean DeBlois (Lilo and Stitch), who directed the first two animated films.
Dragons continue to rank high in fantasy entertainment. This is shown by upcoming theatrical releases like Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves as well as last year’s Game of Thrones prequel return House of the Dragon. Well, Daenerys and the other Targaryens will probably be soon Competition as a dragon rider receive.
When will the How To Train Your Dragon remake hit theaters?
As Deadline writes, How To Train Your Dragon has a US theatrical release on March 14, 2025 receive. With a fantasy project of this size, the German start will most likely fall on a similar date in two years’ time.
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