How to Train Your Dragon Reveals First Look at Live-Action Hiccup

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Feast your eyes on the first look at Hiccup in the live-action remake of How to train your dragon. The beloved friendship between Viking Hiccup and his loyal dragon Toothless is at its core How to train your dragon franchise, which spawned three animated films. How to train your dragon now moving from animated feature to live action with Mason Thames (Black phone) portrays Hiccup. Empire has the first look at Thames as our protagonist Hiccup, fully decked out in his Viking gear while inside a Berk dragon lair as the crowd cheers him on.

Filmmaker Dean DeBlois directs the live action How to train your dragonand he’s a veteran of the franchise, having also directed the previous three installments, with Chris Sanders joining him on the first film in 2010. The image in question – which you can see below – most likely comes when Hiccup has to pretend to show up. against Toothless, though as fans of the first How to train your dragon movie remember, Hiccup shows his fellow Berkians that dragons are not to be feared.

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“It’s so dialed in in terms of stakes — to have a fully believable, photo-real dragon stomping around trying to kill him,” DeBlois said of the stakes raised in the live-action adaptation of How to train your dragon. DeBlois also went on to say how Hiccup “represents all the oddballs out there, and there’s a lot of us,” making him a relatable character. “There was a bit of awkwardness but also a vulnerability to him that (came) with the fact that he was 15 when we auditioned him,” he said of Mason Thames.

Joining the Thames How to train your dragon is Nico Parker (The last of us) as Astrid, Gerard Butler reprising his voice role as Stoick the Vast from the animated films, Nick Frost as Gobber the Blech, Julian Dennison (Deadpool 2) as Fishlegs, Gabriel Howell (Night sleep) as Snotlout, Bronwyn James (Masters of the Air) as Ruffnut and Harry Trevaldwyn (Ten percent) as Tuffnut.

The live action How to train your dragon hits theaters June 13, 2025.