Key Takeaways
- The Isle of Berk is a perfect setting for a live-action movie, with natural visuals and an ideal plot for adaptation, making it more realistic and visually stunning on the big screen.
- Dragons in the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon will be more life-like and captivating, potentially attracting older audiences and intensifying the spectacle on screen.
- The live-action How to Train Your Dragon will ramp up the action and drama, providing more intense and powerful visuals, while also delving deeper into the emotional journey of the characters.
Audiences will be able to travel back to the Isle of Berk in June 2025 when the live-action remake of Dreamworks’ How to Train Your Dragon releases. Taking the 2010 story and bringing it into real life is something that many people are excited about, considering the popularity of the franchise, and there is real scope for this to be a thrilling adventure movie.
Due to how many Disney has churned out, live-action remakes of animated classics have become a popular trend in recent years. While the mixed quality of those movies has led to the excitement surrounding them dropping slightly, How to Train Your Dragon is perfect to be adapted in this way.
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The World Is Perfect For Live-Action
Many of Disney’s live-action remakes have left audiences wanting to understand how they would be created, and there have been struggles to make them work. Taking animals, such as in The Lion King or how Disney tried to adapt Pinocchio, didn’t connect. However, the Isle of Berk is a perfect setting for a live-action movie, with this Viking-themed story being something that feels like it was created with a live-action in mind rather than for animation.
The setting of Isle of Berk is something that can create amazing visuals due to the mountains and the crashing water below, which should make a gripping location that will look beautiful from a cinematic perspective. However, the characters and plot are also ideal for becoming a live-action movie, as this feels like it should be a natural transition.
It should be a stretch for director Dean DeBlois to transfer the animated story into a live-action world without it seeming like he’s trying too hard or by having aspects simply not work. Instead, the switch in format should be natural, and, if anything, it will look even more impressive on the big screen.
The Dragons Should Feel More Realistic
While there are many brilliant human characters in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise, the big focus is always going to be on the dragons. Toothless is one of the leading characters in this story, but countless other dragons help to build up this world and make the movie as engaging and enjoyable as it is. They’re animated beautifully in the animated films, but they should feel even more realistic in a live-action format.
Of course, dragons don’t exist, so they will still need to be animated in this movie. However, they will be created in a life-like way that doesn’t focus on being cartoonish and should create characters that look unbelievable. When dragons are done well in movies, they always captivate audiences because they’re larger-than-life, but few films in history will have as many as How to Train Your Dragon.
That should create an unforgettable spectacle that people want to view on the big screen to see the creatures flying around and causing as much carnage as possible. There’s a chance that they will end up being slightly more intense in the live-action setting as well, which could make the movie more accessible to older viewers. This will only help How to Train Your Dragon’s potential box office success.
The Action & Drama Will Be Ramped Up
The original How to Train Your Dragon is geared toward a younger audience because it is an animated Dreamworks film, and that’s why the story has so much heart, humor, and love throughout it. However, audiences typically expect live-action movies to be more serious than animations, even if they’re still aimed at a younger audience.
Due to the nature of the movie itself, this live-action can easily achieve that. The battle between the Vikings and the dragons is a narrative that can create some incredible action scenes that will feel intense and powerful, easily gripping audiences to want more. It feels like it can create a classic popcorn blockbuster that people will want to engage with and would stand out in trailers due to its impressive visual nature.
Yet, at the same time, the emotions involved in Hiccup’s storyline have the chance to be even more dramatic in a live-action version of How to Train Your Dragon. That’s not something that has always come across in Disney’s live-action remakes, but it could do here. He doesn’t fit in with the rest of the characters, nor does he intend to follow in his father’s footsteps. However, the pressure Hiccup feels is intense. While the animation did a great job of conveying that those feelings should be easier to identify in a live-action movie, that could take this version of the story to another level that will be even more entertaining and memorable.
