How To Train Your Dragon was one of the 2025 new movie releases to really blow my mind in its scale and execution, and while I hope everyone got to see it on the big screen, it is streaming for those with a Peacock subscription starting this weekend. That won’t be the end of the live action franchise, either, as director Dean DeBlois and lead Gerard Butler already announced How To Train Your Dragon 2 at a CinemaCon event I attended earlier this year.
Despite the new movie feeling like it just came out, those involved have very much been looking ahead, and when I spoke to DeBlois he told me he’s been really thinking about the “challenges” of the upcoming How To Train Your Dragon 2 live action movie already. It’s one thing to have hordes of dragons animated for the big screen, and another to do it with more practical effects, more intensive CGI, and opposite real-life human actors.
I think about anything involving the masses of dragons. If we’re having a battle on the beach with, you know, hundreds of dragon traps and dragons that are flying out of Valka’s Mountain and attacking from Drago’s forces.I think about the scale of that battle and trying to execute it in live action and it feels kind of overwhelming.
Superman flying scene with David Corenswet. Still, he sounds confident they’ll figure out all the Hiccup and Astrid stunt stuff in a timely manner. Both Nico Parker and Mason Thames also told me the second movie is their “favorite” of the original trilogy, so challenges aside, I think there’s going to be a lot to look forward to.
I’ve been excited to watch two big How To Train Your Dragon moments thanks to it heading into homes, so I’m excited for the latest streaming release so I can watch the flick again, but honestly all this dragon talk has me champing at the bit for the next movie. June 11, 2027 can’t come soon enough.