It’s been a long time coming to see it, but Dreamworks has finally shown us a first look. adaptation trailer real action How to train your dragon. When the development of the project was first announced, there was some skepticism about the transformation into live action from the 2010 film of the same name. Contrary to all expectations, the truth is that the preview surprised with its technical quality and its fidelity to the film that launched one of the studio’s most acclaimed franchises. The company is thus making the leap towards this typology from which Disney has benefited for almost a decade, not without receive several reviews along the way. However, unlike House of Mouse, Dreamworks seems to have understood the key to successfully converting from the realm of animation to the realm of cinematic reality: respect the legacy already known to fans.
A seemingly perfect casting, careful CGI and a production design that, at the moment, gives everyone a thousand thoughts. flesh and blood are remade released so far. The sensations with this promotional material from How to train your dragon They couldn’t be more eloquent and emotional, especially in the part where Harold meets Harold for the first time. Toothlessthe dark and touching animal with which the protagonist will establish a magical relationship. Yes, this cinematic link between the child and the creature which aroused so many tears among spectators, through settings like Elliot and ET the Extraterrestrial either Hogarth and the Iron Giant. Credit for this love for original material born from Cressida Cowell’s books is due to its director, Dean Deblois. The man responsible for making the trilogy in the same way concluded in 2019 with a sentimental and magical final chapter. As it could not be otherwise, the Canadian filmmaker specifies in the trailer that everything we loved at the time in this fantastic Viking universe will come back to excite us again. Including the big one soundtrack by John Powella Dreamworks regular that we have already heard in other animation stories like Shrek, Ant either The road to El Dorado.
Trailer for “How to Train Your Dragon”
Beyond the marvelous setting of this live action of How to train your dragonthe key moment of the promotional material is marked the first meeting between Hiccup and Toothless. For those who haven’t seen or don’t remember the story, the young hero is a Viking who lives on an island where the population hunts dragons. But one day, Hiccup meets a small injured dragon which he takes care of until make a connection and an incredible friendship. Together, they will question their worldviews of the dragon species, discovering their misunderstood nature and understanding that coexistence between this population and fantastical beings is necessary to move forward together, in a kind of anti-war history.
In distribution we find Mason Thames (The black phone) like Harold, Nicholas Parker (The last of us) brings Astrid to life, Nick Frost (Zombie Party) is Gobber and Julien Dennison (Deadpool 2) plays Snotlut. Finally, Ruth Codd (The Fall of House Usher) takes on the role of Ruffnut Thorston and Gerard Butler (300), repeats himself as the father of the main hero, since in the original animated films he already nicknamed Stoick the Vast, who is also the leader of this Nordic tribe.
Live action: a profitable business
In an era dominated by franchises and late sequels, Disney launched a content line several years ago focused on resurrect your old classicsconverting animation into live action. Something that had already been done in the past, under titles like 101 Dalmatians (1996). But the ambitions of this format at the time went little further than a sort of future exploitation on the domestic market.
Everything changed when, after the first decade of the 21st centurythe Californian company began a journey of authentic blockbusters of the most lucrative stories in its catalog of cinematic totems, reaching the commercial zenith with the live-action film of The Lion King. The Shakespearean plot of the animal kingdom suffered from criticized hyper-realistic CGI, but ended up grossing more than $1.6 billion and thus being the tenth highest-grossing feature film in modern cinema history.
With How to train your dragonDreamworks is taking the plunge into this inhospitable terrain for the studio, scheduling its premiere for June 13, 2025. For its part, its main competitor will release the same year on live action of snow White and that of Lilo and Stitch.
