Trailer for upcoming live-action remake LÄKKER Online

The first teaser trailer for the live-action version of DreamWorks Animation’s How to train your dragon currently playing in select theaters. Although an online release is likely imminent, over a minute of footage has just leaked online.

It will likely be pulled down quickly, but features the fateful first meeting between Hiccup and Toothless and a first look at Gerard Butler reprising his role from the animated film as Stoick.

It doesn’t look like the film will stray too far from what we saw in 2010; for some it will come as good news and for others it will be 2019 The Lion King again.

Overall, though, the visuals look impressive, and Toothless is essentially a slightly more refined version of his cartoon counterpart (in terms of design, there don’t seem to be any notable differences).

Butler recently spoke with Collider about working on the long-awaited How to train your dragon replay:

“Yes, it was very cold and a bit miserable because we went at the worst time. It was December, or actually started in January. I had a hotel room that had glass right down by my bath and for some reason had I decided that I should take ice baths every morning. So at five in the morning my (physiotherapist) would – because I’m not going to put the ice in the bath – and fill my bath with ice, and I would get in this ice bath but outside it would be dark with the wind blowing soaked you know at least if you’re doing an ice bath and you’re in LA blue sky This was like, ‘I’m going out in it’ .”

“But I had seven layers, thick layers and a thick beard, and then I had some kind of bear skin or wolf skin over it. It was heavy as sh—t. When I had my sword and my shield and the helmet, which was heavy, and all those layers with the buckles going around, it was 90 pounds, my costume, I was in the middle of the coldest day, drenched in sweat inside because it was like an oven in there, so I think I had the advantage of.. .I was rarely cold while everyone else was like this. You had to stick it back in. My eyebrows were falling off because I was sweating so much.

You can see it leaked How to train your dragon trailer below.

Universal Pictures has assembled an impressive cast How to train your dragon 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 that How to train your dragon trilogy along with Chris Sanders is helming this remake, possibly explaining reports that it has been described as a The Lion King-style shot-by-shot adaptation after test screenings.

In the animated How to train your dragonHiccup, a young viking who dreams of being a brave dragon slayer, forms an unlikely friendship with one of the flying beasts after wounding it in battle. Together, Hiccup and his new friend – whom he calls Toothless – must unite their cultures in a battle against a giant evil dragon known as the Red Death.

How to train your dragon is set to be released in theaters on June 13, 2025.