#how to train you dragon live action

[study-trash-child]

ah yes im a 15 y old loser boy of my village, with a jaw that can cut through glass

[alwritey-aphrodite]

Everyone freaking out about How To Train Your Dragon casting as if dragons aren’t literally fictional creatures

[yourmajestybee]

EVERYONE NEEDS TO LOOK AT HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON UNTRAINABLE THE STAGE PLAY RN

[antennatoheaven]

[multiverseofseries]

First look at Hiccup in the live-action ‘HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON’ remake. In theaters on June 13, 2025.

(Source: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...)

[local-dragon-haunt]

"It's okay, I won't hurt you." " THATS NOT THE POINT OF THE SCCEEEEEENNNNEEEEE. "it's okay, I won't hurt you." YOU ALREADY DID!!!!!! YOU'RE MAKING AMENDS FOR IT!@!!!!! THA'TS FTHE FUCKING POINTT OF THE MOVIEEEE!!!

"It's okay, I won't hurt you." BITCH THATS THE OFFSPRING OF LIGHTING AND DEATH ITSELF!!! YOU SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT IT HURTING YOUUU!!!! THAT'S THE POINT OF THE SCENE!!!! YOU'RE HELPING HIM EVEN THOUGH IT COULD KILL YOU BECAUSE YOU NEED TO MAKE AMENDS!!! YOU DON'T NEED TO SAY THAT, THE SCENE IS SUPPOSED TO DO THAT FOR YOU!!!! I'M GONNA THRHWOW SOMETHING THIS IS GONNA BE SO BAD.

[httyd-art-requests]

toofless please??? :0 when yous hav the time ofc, he’s my favwrite scaley puppy

I'm shocked that no one has directly requested Toothless yet! He's only appeared on this blog, like, 3 times since January

Dragon #128 - Toothless!

Baby boy. Baby <3

[nokkiart]

As a long time httyd fan who has been heavily involved in the fandom since the first movie and who has spent years working in the animation industry, I’d like to share my thoughts on the new httyd movie. Keep in mind, this is just my personal opinion and it's completely fine if you disagree with me. I just want to say a little something about all this that really bothers me.

The core reason that Dreamworks and Universal made this film is that it’s a quick and easy cash grab for them. Thats it. They don’t care about telling a good story or making a “better” version of the original movie for fans or even having an accurate portrayal of the characters/story. It’s purely about money. They know that fans of the original film will go see this movie, whether it’s good or bad. And those guaranteed ticket sales are all that matter to the studios. And with Universal, it has the added bonus of being a cheap promotional and merchandising opportunity for the new HTTYD land in Orlando that opens around the same time that the film is premiering in theaters.

And to help the studios make even more money out of this, they are using non-unionized VFX companies around the world to make this film, so that they can get cheaper labor and push the artists to do more that would be against American union standards. The same thing has probably happened with the costuming and fabrication for the filming, hence why the costumes look un-weathered and the sets look cheap. They don’t want to pay for the extra time and effort that it would take to make the practical bits of the production look good.

On top of all this, Dreamworks has already announced that they’re shutting down all their in-house animation projects in favor of using AI and outsourcing projects to cheaper international non-union studios.

With all this in mind, I just can’t support this film and I will not be seeing it in theaters. And I hope that others will do the same.

The only way to stop all these horrible “live action” remakes (which are actually just realistically animated remakes) is to not buy tickets to see them. Money is all that matters to these studios, and if they don’t make any money off of it, then they will stop and try something different. Maybe they'll even go back to focusing on original stories!

That’s the power that we hold as audiences. Our wallets help drive the decisions that the executives make. So support unique storytelling and gorgeous cinematography in movies. Support indie films. Support animators as they're fighting for fair pay and better contracts. But don't support a mediocre shot-for-shot remake riding on the coattails of an already successful film.

And I just want to wrap all this up by saying I have absolutely no hate towards anyone that has worked on the new film. Toothless looks incredible and I know the artists and creatives involved in this project did the best they could with what they were given.

But I also know that those same artists have so many more brilliant ideas that they would’ve loved to be given the creative freedom to do. I just wish hollywood would be willing to take a chance and let them do it.

[000marie198]

I don't care how excited it might make some people, I don't like this remake

[amygdalae]

they always make live action adaptations of things that still require like 90% CGI to depict anyways but since they're now going for weird uncanny photorealism it looks like doodoo ass

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Full offense: the director saying How To Train Your Dragon becoming live action somehow means the stakes can be dialled up because....a CGI dragon trying to kill Hiccup is somehow better at showing stakes then animation doing it??? really shows zero respect to the animated film.

[flippythegodzilla]

Gods that fucking trailer for the live action htty dragon movie it made me so mad!!! Like I was having some hope for it? Like maybe Dreamworks will make a new story, a new spin on it? Maybe add some more scenes from the books but nooooooooo it’s completely the same thing just live action

I’m insulted like I’m so angry you don’t know how I feel right now.

I’m usually ok with live action movies! But this I don’t know… like listen we all hated the lion king live action but I still saw it and I thought it was decent not as good as the original, I like how they made the female hyena the leader more but that is it, but this? This I’m like screaming, in rage 😡

If I ever watch it, it will only be because it’s free on my streaming platform, and for the dragons and Gerald butler, that’s it.

How to train your dragons was a masterpiece and this live action is just an insult. It does not have to be the same exact to exact. It’s why Maleficent did so well!

Gods why does everything have to be live action now? Can’t we have our cartoons?

[artist-issues]

Okay I get that they gotta rekindle the interest in How to Train Your Dragon because of the new theme park—as if that's necessary, like streaming doesn't keep things relevant for kids born after the time of its release—but WHY A LAZY UGLY LIVE-ACTION ADAPTATION?

I think Universal should've just made a new movie in the HTTYD universe.

They should've made it small, simple, with an enormous heart, earnest scene-blocking, winsome characterizations, and subtly gripping animation that blends the cartoon-appeal with just enough realism to be pretty-or-scary-or-exhilarating when needed—just like the original How to Train Your Dragon.

It should be set shortly after the time of How to Train Your Dragon, the first movie. That way we get the small-and-simple-with-epic-heart scale, and we don't introduce all the craziness of Hidden Dragon Ecosystems and Mad Warlord War Machines yet.

Here Let Me Just:

It should be about a kid who lives in Berk and is terrified of dragons.

This made The Kid an outcast a week ago, when Vikings were at war with dragons, already—because what Viking gives in to fear instead of punching their fear in the face?—but now everything is different...and The Kid is still an outcast. Because The Kid is just as afraid of rideable pet dragons as he or she was of enemy-dragons.

The Kid can't bring his or herself to believe that dragons are safe to be around at all. Maybe The Kid has good reason—The Kid's parents were taken by dragons or something. Anyway, The Kid doesn't want to do any of this Brave New World, Learn to Love Dragons stuff. The Kid wants to keep hiding at their no-action job (maybe he-or-she genuinely is training to be a bread-making Viking) where he or she has no friends, and wishes the dragons would just go away.

Anyway, maybe in these early days of Hiccup's New Peace a dragon suddenly appears to be kidnapping people out of the village. Sheep are going missing, too. Houses are burning completely down in the night. So Berk is starting to doubt all over again whether dragons can be trusted. Hiccup and Toothless leave to chase a lead, and our Kid Character is forced out of his or her comfort zone when someone they love is taken by whatever dragon is causing the unrest.

So then The Kid character tries to solve the mystery, and it turns out there's a dragon (NOT a Night Fury, a different flavor of "cool dragon" with a totally different KIND of appeal) who's not causing the kidnappings or burning's but is somehow involved, and is the key to finding whoever is framing the dragons and luring Hiccup and Toothless away from the island to do it. (It should just be a Berk Viking, who's bitter, to foil our Kid Character—not a supervillain.)

Obviously there are challenges, like "how do I make any dragon interesting to spend a movie's length of time with when a Night Fury exists." But the focus and theme would be tighter on "act in spite of fear" rather than Hiccup's story's "understanding trumps fear" type-thing. A sister-message.

And with the plot localized to Berk, you're getting a lot of that classic Island-of-How-To-Train-Your-Dragon imagery, so that going to the new theme park feels relevant because you just watched a movie where that's mostly the setting.

And Hiccup and Toothless can be a bigger part of the story if we want. Whatever. But that's what they should've done. Small, charming, with a you-didn't-see-that-coming classic impact.

something LIKE that

not a new-but-worse take on something that was already perfect

[beeclops]

[starhunter21]

As a blonde haired, blue eyed, Scandinavian woman with ancestors who were actual Vikings, and who grew up loving httyd…

It. Is. Fine.

Please relax.

Don’t pretend to be worried about my representation.

Stop making up reasons to be racist.

[multiverseofseries]

FIRST LEAK OF HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON

WHICH WILL BE RELEASED IN THEATERS ON JUNE 13, 2025. THE IMAGE SURELY COMES FROM THE TRAILER WHICH WILL BE BROADCAST IN THE COMING DAYS