The CinemaCon festivities have continued in Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday with the Universal Pictures and Focus Features Panel. While CinemaBlend was in attendance at the event, Universal started things off by announcing that a second How To Train Your Dragon live-action movie is already in the works ahead this summer’s remake hitting theaters this June.
As a longtime fan of the DreamWorks movies, when I heard the news, I couldn’t help about the character I’m most excited to see in live-action: Hiccup’s mom, Valka. And who voiced the role in the 2014 animated movie? Cate Blanchett.
How To Train Your Dragon 2 Has Already Been Announced
I’ll get to Ms. Cate in a moment. First, here’s how director Dean DeBlois announced the sequel to CinemaCon attendees:
While this will be the first live-action dragon movie coming to your theaters it will not be the last. We’re thrilled to tell you How To Train Your Dragon 2 will be flying into theaters on June 11, 2027.
CinemaCon attendees actually started their days with a premiere screening of the live-action How To Train Your Dragon, which has already earned high praise from audiences. Our site’s own Jessica Rawden called it “everything a live-action remake should be: funny, emotional, and sentimental – yet epic in scope.” Other first reactions called it “gorgeous,” “adorable,” and had some even in tears.
I’m Going To Need Cate Blanchett To Join Live-Action Berk
The announcement of the sequel shows a huge vote of confidence from Universal about the success of the summer movie, but now I won’t stop thinking about Cate Blanchett being another one of the animated voices from the How To Train Your Dragon movies who should reprise their role in live action.
In the first movie that’s just two months from release, Gerard Butler came back to play Hiccup’s dad, Stoick, but in live-action. He’s called the costume and massive beard “five pieces of hell,” and this time him and the cast battled freezing weather while making it, but it sound like it might have been worth it.
As you might recall from the sequel to How To Train Your Dragon, Hiccup and Toothless’s second adventures takes place five years after the events of the first movie at a time where a 20-year-old Hiccup and his Night Fury encounter his long-lost mother and a ruthless dragon hunter named Drago Bludvist, played by Djimon Hounsou.
More to come…