Gerard Butler is set to reprise his role as Stoick the Vast in the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon.
The Scottish actor, 54, voiced Stoick the Vast, the father of leading character Hiccup, in the DreamWorks Animation trilogy and will reprise the part for the upcoming adaptation.
The movie is currently slated for release on June 13, 2025, and will be directed by Dean DeBlois, with Marc Platt and Adam Siegel producing.
Mason Thames (The Black Phone) and Nico Parker (The Last of Us) have also signed on to play Hiccup and Astrid respectively, via The Hollywood Reporter.
Gerard Butler (pictured in January 2023) is set to reprise his role as Stoick the Vast in the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon
The actor, 54, voiced Stoick the Vast (left), the father of leading character Hiccup (right), in the DreamWorks Animation trilogy and will reprise the part for the upcoming adaptation
Jay Baruchel and America Ferrera lent their voices to Hiccup and Astrid in the animated trilogy How to Train Your Dragon (2010), How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019).
The director and producers took several months to find the right actors for Hiccup and Astrid, in hopes they could both ‘grow into the roles’ much like the characters in the animated films mature throughout the trilogy.
Mason, 15, most recently starred in Scott Derrickson’s thriller The Black Phone and played Young Walker on The CW’s Walker.
He also stars in Boys of Summer with Mel Gibson, Lorraine Bracco and Patrick Renna, which is in post-production.
Nico, 18, made her acting debut as Milly in 2019’s Dumbo and most recently played Sarah Miller, the daughter of Pedro Pascal’s Joel Miller on HBO’s The Last Of Us.
The original How to Train Your Dragon was adapted from the books by Cressida Cowell, though it’s unclear if the live-action film will tell the same story as the first animated movie, released in 2010.
The first movie followed the adventures of the young Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, son of Stoick the Vast, leader of the Viking island dubbed Berk.
Mason Thames (The Black Phone) and Nico Parker (The Last of Us) have also signed on to play Hiccup and Astrid respectively, via The Hollywood Reporter
Jay Baruchel and America Ferrera lent their voices to Hiccup and Astrid in How to Train Your Dragon, How to Train Your Dragon 2 and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
While Hiccup is dubbed to be too diminutive to become a fearless dragonslayer, like his father and grandfather before him, he ultimately befriends a young dragon named Toothless and learns there are much more to these creatures than he was taught.
The animated adventure also featured the voices of Jonah Hill (Snoutlout), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Fishlegs), Craig Ferguson (Goober), T.J. Miller (Tuffnut), Kristen Wiig (Ruffnut), Ashley Jensen (Phlegma the Fierce) and David Tennant (Spitelout).
The first movie was a hit at the box office, taking in $217.5million domestic and $494.8million worldwide from a $165million budget.
The 2014 sequel How to Train Your Dragon 2 was set five years later, with Hiccup set to take over as leader of Berk from his father, after successfully uniting the Vikings and dragons.
Hiccup and his dragon riders had to stop a dragon trapper named Drago Bludvist (Djimon Hounsou), while also finding his long-lost mother Valka (Cate Blanchett).
The sequel dipped a bit domestically ($177 million) but fared much better in foreign markets ($444.5 million) for a global haul of $621.5million from a $145million budget.
How to Train Your Dragon was adapted from the books by Cressida Cowell, though it’s unclear if the live-action film will tell the same story as the first animated movie, released in 2010
Box office: The first movie was a hit at the box office, taking in $217.5million domestic and $494.8million worldwide from a $165million budget
The third movie – 2019’s How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World – rounded out the animated trilogy finds Hiccup now the chieftain of Berk.
He discovered that his dragon Toothless is not the only Night Fury dragon as he set off in search of The Hidden World, a secret dragon utopia.
He had to find the Hidden World before the tyrant Grimmel (F. Murray Abraham) can find it first.
The third movie also dipped slightly domestically with $160.9million and $363.6million from foreign markets for $524.5million worldwide from a $129million budget.
