You’ll be hearing a familiar voice in the upcoming live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon, as Gerard Butler is reprising his role as Stoick the Vast, Hiccup’s father and the Viking Chief, Deadline reports. The upcoming project, a Universal Pictures adaptation of the DreamWorks Animation franchise, hails from original trilogy helmer Dean DeBlois. DeBlois will write and direct the adaptation, having both written and directed each of the three animated How To Train Your Dragon films.

As previously announced, Mason Thames (The Black Phone) and Nico Parker (The Last of Us) are leading the project as Hiccup and Astrid (voiced by Jay Baruchel and America Ferrera, respectively, in the original). Marc Platt is producing via his production banner, alongside Adam Siegel, with Lexi Barta overseeing for Universal.

As an animated trilogy, How to Train Your Dragon centred on the growing relationship between a young, clumsy Viking teen and aspiring dragon hunter named Hiccup and Toothless, an injured dragon he saves. Meanwhile, the female lead, Astrid, progresses from someone prejudiced against dragons to a warrior bonded to one. 

Gerard Butler was recently seen in Lionsgate’s actioner Plane and action-thriller Kandahar.

How to Train Your Dragon is due to fly into cinemas on June 13th, 2025.