# How to Train Your Dragon. \[Live Action Remake\] 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [June 14, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-train-your-dragon-live-action-remake-2025/1019632 "2025-06-14T15:26:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-train-your-dragon-live-action-remake-2025/1019632/1 "2025-06-14T15:26:17Z")
There is a new live action remake of the animated 2010 How to Train Your Dragon which came to theaters June 13. Trailer: > **[How To Train Your Dragon | Official Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22w7z_lT6YM%2F)** > > How To Train Your Dragon - In Theaters June 13From three-time Oscar® nominee and Golden Globe winner Dean DeBlois, the creative visionary behind DreamWorks A... High Rotten Tomatoes ratings: 98% from the general public, 77% from reviewers. > **[How to Train Your Dragon (2025) | Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/how_to_train_your_dragon_2025)** > > Discover reviews, ratings, and trailers for How to Train Your Dragon (2025) on Rotten Tomatoes. Stay updated with critic and audience scores today! [I won’t watch it until it comes to streaming] ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-train-your-dragon-live-action-remake-2025/1019632/2 "2025-06-15T01:31:47Z")
I think it’s very cool that they got Gerard Butler to play Stoick. He was the voice of Stoick in the movies! I’m a little disappointed that they didn’t get Craig Ferguson or David Tennant to reprise their roles.. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-train-your-dragon-live-action-remake-2025/1019632/3 "2025-06-15T23:23:41Z")
> The Universal live-action adaptation of the beloved animated franchise soared to a strong $83.7 million debut in North American theaters, according to Comscore estimates Sunday. The reboot easily outpaced 2019’s [“How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World,”](https://apnews.com/article/5d29f3aa016b4419b9401ca8f087f4ed) which opened with $55 million. The latest film earned more than $114.1 million internationally, bringing the global total to $197.8 million. > **['How to Train Your Dragon' soars in box office debut with $83.7 million,...](https://apnews.com/article/box-office-how-to-train-dragon-e8ebe4e17409c93a83c4a6529a417d68)** > > “How to Train Your Dragon” took flight at the box office this weekend, proving that some remakes still have teeth. But no one here has seen it? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-train-your-dragon-live-action-remake-2025/1019632/4 "2025-06-15T23:37:52Z")
Is it the exact same script/plot as the animated movie, just live action (with necessary CGI) this time? ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-train-your-dragon-live-action-remake-2025/1019632/5 "2025-06-16T00:15:18Z")
No. The director discusses the changes: > ##### You mentioned expanding the story. How did you explore those moments through your storytelling? > > This version allowed us to go a little bit more nuanced with the performances. And I thought the father son relationship could benefit from knowing a little bit about a little bit more about Stoick’s (Gerard Butler) plight, seeing him as sort of a very public politician, in a sense, trying to keep his dispirited group together and motivated, remotivating them one more time to follow the objective and try to find the dragon’s nest after they’d been defeated yet again in a nighttime raid… > > ##### You talked about expanding the world, but there are also some scenes that you cut. Is there a scene that had to go because it didn’t work in live-action? > > The scenes we cut were actually filmed. When Hiccup and Toothless are resting after the midpoint scene of what we call the “Test drive,” and they look to the sky together, they’re accosted by little terrors that try to steal their fish. Hiccup observes that dragons are not so fireproof. In the film, it felt like it was dragging the pace down, and it was delivering information that we were already getting… Similarly, another scene that we trimmed was a moment when Astrid nearly catches Hiccup red-handed. He’s snuck Toothless into the blacksmith stall, and it’s the middle of the night. Astrid finds him there, and he’s trying to cover up and dissuade her from investigating any further… > **[‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Director on the Big Changes Made and the...](https://variety.com/2025/film/news/how-to-train-your-dragon-director-changes-explained-1236429622/)** > > "How to Train Your Dragon" director Dean DeBlois on changes to animated movie. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-train-your-dragon-live-action-remake-2025/1019632/6 "2025-06-16T01:45:00Z")
I saw it and really liked it! Disney should take some notes on how to make a _good_ live action remake. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-train-your-dragon-live-action-remake-2025/1019632/7 "2025-06-16T17:21:56Z")
I can’t be the only person who has an issue with a live action remake of a 15 year old movie? ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-train-your-dragon-live-action-remake-2025/1019632/8 "2025-06-16T19:46:03Z")
The one review I hear of it said it worked just fine but the added length didn’t do anything for it. He said it could have easily been cut down 30 minutes which would put it at the same length as the original.