How to Train Your Dragon (2025 film)

How to Train Your Dragon
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDean DeBlois
Screenplay byDean DeBlois
Based onHow to Train Your Dragon
by Cressida Cowell
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyBill Pope
Edited byWyatt Smith
Music byJohn Powell
Production
companies
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release dates
  • April 2, 2025 (2025-04-02) (CinemaCon)
  • June 13, 2025 (2025-06-13) (United States)
Running time
125 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$150 million
Box office$206.2 million

How to Train Your Dragon is a 2025 American fantasy adventure film that is a live-action remake of the 2010 animated film, itself loosely based on the 2003 novel by Cressida Cowell. Produced by DreamWorks Animation, the film was co-executive produced, written, and directed by Dean DeBlois. It stars Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gabriel Howell, Julian Dennison, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn, Peter Serafinowicz, and Nick Frost, with Gerard Butler reprising his role as Stoick the Vast from the animated films.

Plans for a live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon were announced in February 2023, with DeBlois returning to write, direct, and produce after previously spearheading the animated film trilogy. John Powell, who also worked on the trilogy, additionally returned to compose the score for the film. Thames and Parker joined the cast by May 2023, with additional casting announced in January 2024. Filming began later that month in Belfast, Northern Ireland and wrapped in May.

How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks' first live-action film, premiered at CinemaCon on April 2, 2025, and was released in the United States by Universal Pictures on June 13, 2025. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and has grossed $206 million worldwide, becoming the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2025. A sequel is scheduled to be released on June 11, 2027.