It’s Going To Be Harder To Watch How To Train Your Dragon Before The Live-Action Remake

The How to Train Your Dragon franchise is one of DreamWorks‘ most successful and beloved by audiences, with the trilogy having led to various spinoffs such as a television series, theme park areas, and video games. DreamWorks is continuing to tap into this franchise moving forward with the upcoming How to Train Your Dragon live-action remake, which will be released on June 13, 2025, taking audiences back to the Isle of Berk.

There is a lot of excitement about the live-action version, as people want to see what will happen and how the film will be brought to life. Seeing many dragons on the big screen in this format will generally bring a lot of attention to the franchise. Audiences will likely want to revisit the original animations before or after this release. However, viewing the original How to Train Your Dragon and its first sequel is set to become a lot harder from Netflix.

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According to What’s On Netflix, How to Train Your Dragon and How to Train Your Dragon 2 will both be leaving Netflix on April 1. That means that this month will be the last chance fans have to see these iconic movies on the streaming platform. Whether or not they end up being brought back to Netflix in the future will remain to be seen, but for now, they will be gone. Therefore, anyone who wants to see them via that platform before the live-action movie is released will need to do so quickly.

The original How to Train Your Dragon was a box office hit upon its release in 2010. It grossed almost $500 million worldwide and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The film follows the journey of a Viking teenager named Hiccup who is trying to live up to his father’s expectations despite being very different from him. He attempts to kill a dragon but ends up befriending it (Toothless) instead, as he aims to showcase the truth about the dragons to his fellow Vikings. The movie blends humor and heart together with a terrific soundtrack, which allowed it to become popular enough for DreamWorks to build into an entire franchise.

The upcoming live-action reboot is set to be a like-for-like remake of the original movie. Therefore, audiences may have wanted to rewatch that to compare them. This trend is something that Disney has been doing a lot recently, remaking many classic animated films to tell the stories in a slightly fresher way, which has proven to be a hit at the box office for them. DreamWorks is now looking to follow that path and tap into one of its biggest hits to date.

Netflix often rotates its content in a bid to keep audiences engaged and to draw in new subscribers, with fresh movies and television shows helping to achieve that. How to Train Your Dragon was focused on attracting family audiences to the streaming platform, and while the timing is odd for it to be taken off given that the live-action film is about to come out. However, there is still plenty of time for audiences to enjoy the original How to Train Your Dragon as it was originally intended.

How to Train Your Dragon

Release Date

March 18, 2010

Runtime

98 Minutes

Director

Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders

Writers

Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois, William Davies

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