How to Train Your Dragon live-action reboot adds Hiccup and Astrid
Just three months after the live-action adaptation of How to Train Your Dragon was announced, the cast is starting to come together.
Mason Thames (The Black Phone) and Nico Parker (The Last of Us) have signed on to play Hiccup and Astrid, respectively, via The Hollywood Reporter.
Jay Baruchel and America Ferrera lent their voices to Hiccup and Astrid in the animated trilogy How to Train Your Dragon (2010), How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019).
The original trilogy was loosely based on the children's book series of the same name written by Cressida Cowell, which spanned 12 books published between 2003 and 2012.
The story is set on the Viking island of Berk, where the tradition is for each boy to find and slay a dragon.
Cast: Just three months after the live-action adaptation of How to Train Your Dragon was announced, the cast is starting to come together
Stars: Mason Thames (The Black Phone) and Nico Parker (above, The Last of Us) have signed on to play Hiccup and Astrid, respectively, via The Hollywood Reporter
Animated: Jay Baruchel and America Ferrera lent their voices to Hiccup and Astrid in the animated trilogy How to Train Your Dragon (2010), How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
When it becomes Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III's turn to slay a dragon, he finds one named Toothless, who he ultimately befriends and becomes a dragon rider instead of a dragon slayer.
The cast also Gerard Butler (Stoick the Vast), Jonah Hill (Snoutlout), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Fishlegs), Craig Ferguson (Goober), T.J. Miller (Tuffnut), Kristen Wiig (Ruffnut), Ashley Jensen (Phlegma the Fierce) and David Tennant (Spitelout).
The first movie was a hit at the box office, taking in $217.5 million domestic and $494.8 million worldwide from a $165 million budget.
The 2014 sequel How to Train Your Dragon 2 was set five years later, with Hiccup set to take over as leader of Berk from his father, after successfully uniting the Vikings and dragons.
Hiccup and his dragon riders must now stop a dragon trapper named Drago Bludvist (Djimon Hounsou), while also finding his long-lost mother Valka (Cate Blanchett).
The sequel dipped a bit domestically ($177 million) but fared much better in foreign markets ($444.5 million) for a global haul of $621.5 million from a $145 million budget.
The third movie - 2019's How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World - rounded out the animated trilogy finds Hiccup now the chieftain of Berk.
He learns that his dragon Toothless is not the only Night Fury dragon as he sets off in search of The Hidden World, a secret dragon utopia.
Rider: When it becomes Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III's turn to slay a dragon, he finds one named Toothless, who he ultimately befriends and becomes a dragon rider instead of a dragon slayer
Box office: The first movie was a hit at the box office, taking in $217.5 million domestic and $494.8 million worldwide from a $165 million budget
Recent roles: Thames, 15, most recently starred in Scott Derrickson's thriller The Black Phone and played Young Walker on The CW's Walker
Nico's work: Parker, 18, made her acting debut as Milly in 2019's Dumbo and most recently played Sarah Miller, the daughter of Pedro Pascal's Joel Miller on HBO's The Last Of Us
Dean DeBlois, who wrote and directed the animated trilogy, will write and direct the live-action adaptation, with Marc Platt and Adam Siegel producing.
The director and producers took several months to find the right actors for Hiccup and Astrid, in hopes they could both 'grow into the roles' much like the characters in the animated films mature throughout the trilogy.
Thames, 15, most recently starred in Scott Derrickson's thriller The Black Phone and played Young Walker on The CW's Walker.
He also stars in Boys of Summer with Mel Gibson, Lorraine Bracco and Patrick Renna, which is in post-production.
Parker, 18, made her acting debut as Milly in 2019's Dumbo and most recently played Sarah Miller, the daughter of Pedro Pascal's Joel Miller on HBO's The Last Of Us.
Source: Daily Mail
