The primary have a look at the live-action How you can Practice Your Dragon film has been revealed.
How you can Practice Your Dragon is a DreamWorks Animation film that was launched in 2010. Based mostly on the ebook collection by Cressida Cowell, How you can Practice Your Dragon was adopted by two sequels, 2014’s How you can Practice Your Dragon 2 and 2019’s How you can Practice Your Dragon: The Hidden World, together with a handful of quick movies, tv collection, and extra.
In February 2023, it was introduced {that a} live-action adaptation of How you can Dragon was in improvement at Common Photos. The film confronted delays due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, although manufacturing started in January 2024 and a June 2025 launch date has been set.
Empire Journal has now unveiled the primary formally launched photograph from the live-action How you can Practice Your Dragon. The photograph sees Mason Thames (Incoming, The Black Telephone) taking part in Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, who was voiced by Jay Baruchel within the unique movie.
Try the photograph, by way of an X put up from Empire Magainze, beneath:
What else do we all know in regards to the live-action How you can Practice Your Dragon?
Together with Thames, the film stars Nico Parker as Astrid Hofferson, Gerard Butler as Stoick the Huge, Nick Frost as Gobber the Belch, Julian Dennison as Fishlegs Ingerman, Gabriel Howell as Snotlout Jorgenson, Bronwyn James as Ruffnut Thorston, Harry Trevaldwyn as Tuffnut Thorston, and Ruth Codd as Phlegma.
The movie is directed by Dean DeBlois, who co-directed the 2010 How you can Practice Your Dragon alongside Chris Sanders earlier than he then helmed the second and third motion pictures by himself.
“It’s so dialed-up when it comes to stakes — having a totally credible, photo-real dragon stomping round making an attempt to kill him,” DeBlois mentioned of the brand new movie. He additionally mentioned of Thames’ casting, “There was a little bit of awkwardness, but in addition a vulnerability to him which [came] with the truth that he was 15 once we have been auditioning him.”
The live-action How you can Practice Your Dragon releases in United States theaters on June 13, 2025, from Common Photos.
