'The Black Phone', 'The Last Of Us' Actors Cast In Live-Action Remake Of 'How To Train Your Dragon'
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Universal’s live-action How to Train Your Dragon has its human riders ready to soar. Mason Thames, of The Black Phone fame, and Nico Parker, a rising star who has appeared in HBO’s The Last of Us, will be portraying Hiccup and Astrid respectively.
Hiccup, a young and unheroic Viking, finds an injured dragon who he nurses back to health in DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon. The special bond between Hiccup and Toothless is the film's focal point, with the two helping to lessen the Viking tribe’s prejudice against dragons. Astrid, who accidentally discovers Toothless, helps them with that.
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Two more films in the series would be made, exploring the wider world beyond the tribe’s home of Berk. All three were helmed by Dean DeBlois, who is also helming the live-action reboot of the series for Universal. In producing roles are Marc Platt, who is currently also producing for Universal’s Wicked, and Adam Siegel, who served as a producer on last year’s Disney musical Better Nate Than Ever alongside Platt.
The two young stars have already been making names for themselves, with Thames first starring in three episodes of Apple TV+’s sci-fi drama For All Mankind in 2019. Two years later, he landed the lead role in Universal’s feature thriller The Black Phone. In that same year and continuing into the next, he appeared in three episodes of The CW’s Walker.
As for Parker, she first appeared in Disney’s live-action remake of Dumbo in 2019. Appearing the next year in the HBO series The Third Day for three episodes, she returned for another HBO series two years later. In The Last of Us, she portrays Sarah Miller, daughter of the main lead Pedro Pascal’s character Joel, for two episodes.
How to Train Your Dragon is expected to start shooting this summer, for a release on March 14, 2025
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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