HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: Universal Plans to Make a Live-Action Version of Dean DeBlois’ Animated Film

A How to Train Your Dragon Live-Action Movie is in the Works

Dean DeBlois’s much loved animated film, How to Train Your Dragon, will be turned into a live-action film.

The hit kids’ movie, How to Train Your Dragon, from 2010 is getting the live-action treatment. Universal is planning a movie based on the hit pictures in the film series. There were three How to Train Your Dragon feature length movies made by Dean DeBlois which all earned remarkable “A” CinemaScore grades. If all goes well, the live-action picture is going to arrive in theaters on March 14, 2025.

The 2010 movie made an astonishingly good $217 million at the domestic box-office. The second film in the franchise from 2014, How to Train Your Dragon 2, made $177 million while the third movie in the series from 2019, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, took in a still very good $160 million. The series revolves around a young Viking named Hiccup and his dragon Toothless. Jay Baruchel has lent his voice to Hiccup in the past.

Universal is following Disney’s example in terms of creating live-action versions of hit cartoon movies. Disney has done live-action movies of animated films: 101 Dalmatians, Aladdin, Dumbo and several others. Universal/DreamWorks may want to try live-action films of hit animated fare such as Shrek or Puss in Boots in the future if this How to Train Your Dragon experiment turns out to be profitable. The problem with that, though, is that those two aforementioned cartoons heavily featured animals as the main characters. Still, if the dog filled 101 Dalmatians could be a live-action event film, anything is possible.

Marc Platt is slated to join Dean DeBlois in the quest to bring How to Train Your Dragon to the big screen as a live-action event movie. Platt is known for La La Land and the forthcoming Wicked movie. Platt also produced the 2021 Broadway musical film adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen which got a bad rap from critics when it was released in 2021. That kind of disappointing response to any future Platt project seems unlikely, however.

The joy of the How to Train Your Dragon animated films is their excellent combination of warmth, adventure, magic, action and real emotions which made the final results of these movies noteworthy to audiences across the world. The 2010 film currently holds a 99% Rotten Tomatoes approval rating. The 2014 sequel has a current 92% approval rating and 2019’s third movie in the franchise stands at a 90% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Those are excellent critical responses which give an optimistic outlook on the possibility of the live-action movie being something people would really love to see!

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