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paragraph_text: How to Train Your Dragon is a 2025 American fantasy 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 written and directed by Dean DeBlois, who co-wrote and directed the animated films. 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 of 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. It is DreamWorks Animation's first live-action film.
  
  How to Train Your Dragon premiered at CinemaCon on April 2, 2025, and was released in the United States by Universal Pictures on June 13. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and has grossed $273 million worldwide, becoming the tenth highest-grossing film of 2025. A sequel is scheduled to be released on June 11, 2027.
  
  How to Train Your Dragon is a 2025 American fantasy 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 written and directed by Dean DeBlois, who co-wrote and directed the animated films. 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 of 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. It is DreamWorks Animation's first live-action film.
  
  How to Train Your Dragon premiered at CinemaCon on April 2, 2025, and was released in the United States by Universal Pictures on June 13. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and has grossed $273 million worldwide, becoming the tenth highest-grossing film of 2025. A sequel is scheduled to be released on June 11, 2027.