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How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2027 film)

How to Train Your Dragon 2 is an upcoming American fantasy adventure film written and directed by Dean DeBlois. It is a live-action remake of DreamWorks Animation's 2014 animated film of the same name, itself loosely based on Cressida Cowell's book series, and serves as a sequel to How to Train Your Dragon (2025), the second installment in the live-action How to Train Your Dragon film series, and the fifth film in the overall franchise. Most of the cast from the first film returns, with Cate Blanchett reprising her role as Valka from the animated films and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson joining the cast alongside Phil Dunster.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States by Universal Pictures on June 11, 2027.

Cast

  • Mason Thames as Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, the awkward 16-year-old son of Stoick the Vast.
  • Nico Parker as Astrid Hofferson, Hiccup's love interest and fellow student in dragon-fighting training.
  • Gerard Butler as Stoick the Vast, Berk's chieftain and Hiccup's father. Butler reprises his role from the How to Train Your Dragon animated films.
  • Cate Blanchett as Valka, Hiccup's long-lost mother. Like Butler, Blanchett reprises her role from the animated films.
  • Nick Frost as Gobber the Belch, Berk's blacksmith and Stoick's best friend / advisor with customizable prosthetics that go over where his right hand used to be.
  • Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Drago Bludvist, a ruthless warlord and dragon hunter who seeks to take over the world with a dragon army. Ólafsson previously voiced Ragnar the Rock in ' (2019), the third animated film.
  • Phil Dunster as Eret, son of Eret, a dragon trapper who sells captured dragons to Drago.
  • Gabriel Howell as Snotlout Jorgenson, Hiccup's rival.
  • Julian Dennison as Fishlegs Ingerman, Hiccup's best friend who is obsessed with memorizing dragon statistics.
  • Bronwyn James as Ruffnut Thorston, Tuffnut's twin sister.
  • Harry Trevaldwyn as Tuffnut Thorston, Ruffnut's twin brother.

Production

Development

In April 2025, during CinemaCon, it was announced that a sequel to How to Train Your Dragon (2025) was in development, with Dean DeBlois returning to write and direct. In January 2026, it was revealed that most of the cast would return from the first film, with Cate Blanchett reprising her role as Valka from the animated films and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson joining the cast as Drago Bludvist after previously voicing Ragnar the Rock in ' (2019). Phil Dunster joined the cast as Eret, son of Eret later that same month.

Filming

Principal photography began on January 26, 2026 in Belfast as announced by DeBlois on Instagram and it is expected to wrap in April.

Release

How to Train Your Dragon 2 is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States by Universal Pictures on June 11, 2027.

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