New looks at Scarlett Johansson in Jurassic World Rebirth and Mason Thames as Hiccup for How to Train Your Dragon finally arrive

New look at Gareth Edwards’ Jurassic World Rebirth and Dean DeBlois’ live-action How to Train Your Dragon debut

Massive creatures with scales have become the focus of Empire‘s 2025 Preview as the entertainment magazine debuts with new looks Jurassic World Rebirth and Dean DeBlois’ live-action adaptation of How to train your dragon. DeBlois, who directed all three Dreamworks Animations How to train your dragon film, is collaborating with co-director Chris Sanders on the anticipated project. Bringing Hiccup and Toothless’ tale to live-action gives DeBlois a chance to share the fantasy epic with audiences with a new dimension, emotionality and action. “It’s so named in terms of stakes — to have a fully believable, photo-real dragon stomping around trying to kill him,” DeBlois told Empire about the film’s central dragon, Toothless, interacting with Hiccup, played by Mason Thames (The Black Phone).

IN How to train your dragonHiccup discovers that dragons aren’t as scary as the stories would have him believe. Hiccup is an outsider, so people will likely brush his opinions aside. Yet when he proves to them that dragons are misunderstood and potentially friendly, he ushers in a new era where Vikings and dragons work together to build a common society. “There was a bit of awkwardness, but also a vulnerability to him that (came) with him being 15 when we auditioned him.” DeBlois says of Thames landing the role.

In the new photo for How to train your dragonwe find Thames’s Hiccup in an arena and ready to fight. As the eager audience looks down from above, Hiccup braces himself for a questionable outcome of the confrontation.

In contrast Empire debuted a new image of Scarlett Johansson in Gareth Edwards’s Jurassic World Rebirtha dinosaur action adventure film set five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion. IN Jurassic World Rebirthan expedition into isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three prehistoric creatures goes wrong. Are you far from surprised? This kind of nonsense happens every time. When will humans learn and leave the dinosaurs alone? Probably never.

Scarlett Johansson’s Zora Bennett carries a massive gun through thick foliage in the new one Jurassic World Rebirth photo. The weapon appears to have a giant needle at the tip, apparently to extract the DNA. I don’t know about you, but you wouldn’t catch my slow ass trying to stick a dinosaur with a giant syringe. Miracle cure or not, humanity can fend for itself.

What do you think of today’s new looks? How to train your dragon and Jurassic World Rebirth? Would you stab a dinosaur’s scaly exterior with that needle gun? Let us know in the comments section below and be honest.

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Born and raised in New York, then immigrated to Canada, Steve Seigh has been a JoBlo.com editor, columnist and critic since 2012. He started with Ink & Pixel, a column celebrating the magic and evolution of animation, before launching the companion YouTube -series Animation Movies Revisited. He also hosts the Talking Comics Podcast, a personality-driven audio show focusing on comics, movies, music and more. You will rarely catch him without headphones on his head and pancakes on his breath.