How to Train Your Dragon (franchise)
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The How to Train Your Dragon franchise from DreamWorks Animation
consists of one feature film How to Train Your Dragon
(2010), with one sequel in development for a 2014 release. Part of the franchise are also three short films: Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon
(2010), Book of Dragons (2011), and Gift of the Night Fury (2011). A television series based on the Dragons is in development with a schedule to air in 2012 on Cartoon Network
.
and Chris Sanders. The film is loosely based on the 2003 book of the same name
by Cressida Cowell
. The film grossed nearly $500 million worldwide, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The story takes place in a mythical Viking
world where a young Viking teenager named Hiccup aspires to follow his tribe's tradition of becoming a dragon slayer. After finally capturing his first dragon, and with his chance at finally gaining the tribe's acceptance, he finds that he no longer has the desire to kill it and instead befriends it.
, the co-director of the first film. Bonnie Arnold
, the producer of the first film, is also returning, with Chris Sanders
, who co-directed the first film, only exec-producing this time. The film is scheduled for release on June 20, 2014.
It was announced that the entire original voice cast – Baruchel, Butler, Ferguson, Ferrera, Hill, Mintz-Plasse, Miller and Wiig – would return for the sequel.
has confirmed that at least one more sequel is being planned after How to Train Your Dragon 2, making for 3 total films. Dean DeBlois, the director of the How to Train Your Dragon 2, said that it is being intentionally designed as the second film in the trilogy: "There are certain characters and situations that come into play in the second film that will become much more crucial to the story by the third."
had acquired worldwide broadcast rights to a weekly animated series based on the movie, scheduled to begin sometime in 2012. In January 2011, producer Tim Johnson confirmed that work had begun on the series and that, unlike the TV series spin-offs of the films Madagascar
and Kung Fu Panda
, How To Train Your Dragons series would be much darker and deeper, like the movie. This would be the first Dreamworks Animation series to air on Cartoon Network, rather than Nickelodeon
.
, and released next day as a special feature on Blu-ray and double DVD edition of the original feature film. The film follows Hiccup and his young fellows accompanying their mentor, Gobber, on a quest to kill the legendary Boneknapper Dragon.
The show is being produced in partnership with Global Creatures, the company behind another arena show Walking with Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular, and directed by Nigel Jamieson. The score will be composed by John Powell
and Jonsi
from
Sigur Ros
. The show will begin its world tour in Australia on March 2, 2012, followed by New Zealand on April 16, 2012, and United States in June 2012.
Arena Spectacular will feature 24 animatronic dragons - 10 different species in various sizes: Nadder, Gronckle, Nightmare, Night Fury (Toothless), Red Death, Skrill, Stinger, Kite Dragon, Zippleback and Egg Biter. It will also feature villagers and Vikings, including Hiccup, Astrid, Stoick, and Gobber.
DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. is an American animation studio based in Glendale, California that creates animated feature films, television program and online virtual worlds...
consists of one feature film How to Train Your Dragon
How to Train Your Dragon (film)
How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 3D computer-animated action fantasy film by DreamWorks Animation loosely based on the 2003 book of the same name. The film stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, and Christopher...
(2010), with one sequel in development for a 2014 release. Part of the franchise are also three short films: Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon
Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon
Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon is a 2010 animated short film by DreamWorks Animation that is a sequel to the feature film, How to Train Your Dragon....
(2010), Book of Dragons (2011), and Gift of the Night Fury (2011). A television series based on the Dragons is in development with a schedule to air in 2012 on Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....
.
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
How to Train Your Dragon, the first film in the series, was released on March 26, 2010. It was directed by Dean DeBloisDean DeBlois
Dean DeBlois is a Canadian film director, film producer, screenwriter, animator and editor. He is best known for co-writing and co-directing The Oscar-nominated animated films Lilo & Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon , and for directing the acclaimed Sigur Rós documentary/music film...
and Chris Sanders. The film is loosely based on the 2003 book of the same name
How to Train Your Dragon
How to Train Your Dragon is a series of nine books set in a fictional Viking world. The books were published starting in 2003 as children's novels written by British author Cressida Cowell and published by Hodder Children's Books...
by Cressida Cowell
Cressida Cowell
Cressida Cowell is an English children's author who wrote the Hiccup series of books.- Personal life :Cowell lives in London with her husband Simon, a former director and interim CEO of the International Save the Children Alliance; daughters Maisie and Clementine; and son Alexander...
. The film grossed nearly $500 million worldwide, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The story takes place in a mythical Viking
Viking
The term Viking is customarily used to refer to the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century.These Norsemen used their famed longships to...
world where a young Viking teenager named Hiccup aspires to follow his tribe's tradition of becoming a dragon slayer. After finally capturing his first dragon, and with his chance at finally gaining the tribe's acceptance, he finds that he no longer has the desire to kill it and instead befriends it.
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
A sequel, How to Train Your Dragon 2, was confirmed on April 27, 2010. The film is being directed and written by Dean DeBloisDean DeBlois
Dean DeBlois is a Canadian film director, film producer, screenwriter, animator and editor. He is best known for co-writing and co-directing The Oscar-nominated animated films Lilo & Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon , and for directing the acclaimed Sigur Rós documentary/music film...
, the co-director of the first film. Bonnie Arnold
Bonnie Arnold
Bonnie Arnold is a Hollywood animation film producer who has worked at Walt Disney Feature Animation, Pixar Animation Studios and DreamWorks Animation. Arnold grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, but later worked her way to Hollywood and caught the wave of computer-animation.- Life and career :Arnold has a...
, the producer of the first film, is also returning, with Chris Sanders
Chris Sanders
Christopher Michael "Chris" Sanders is an American film animator and voice actor best-known for co-directing and co-writing the Disney animated feature Lilo & Stitch, and providing the voice of Experiment 626 from Lilo & Stitch and Leroy from Disney's Leroy & Stitch...
, who co-directed the first film, only exec-producing this time. The film is scheduled for release on June 20, 2014.
It was announced that the entire original voice cast – Baruchel, Butler, Ferguson, Ferrera, Hill, Mintz-Plasse, Miller and Wiig – would return for the sequel.
How to Train Your Dragon 3
DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey KatzenbergJeffrey Katzenberg
Jeffrey Katzenberg is an American film producer and CEO of DreamWorks Animation. He is perhaps most famous for his period as chairman of The Walt Disney Company's film division, and for producing DreamWorks animated films such as Shrek, Antz, The Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, Chicken...
has confirmed that at least one more sequel is being planned after How to Train Your Dragon 2, making for 3 total films. Dean DeBlois, the director of the How to Train Your Dragon 2, said that it is being intentionally designed as the second film in the trilogy: "There are certain characters and situations that come into play in the second film that will become much more crucial to the story by the third."
Television series
On October 12, 2010 it was announced that Cartoon NetworkCartoon Network
Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....
had acquired worldwide broadcast rights to a weekly animated series based on the movie, scheduled to begin sometime in 2012. In January 2011, producer Tim Johnson confirmed that work had begun on the series and that, unlike the TV series spin-offs of the films Madagascar
The Penguins of Madagascar
The Penguins of Madagascar is an American CGI animated television series airing on Nickelodeon. It stars nine characters from the DreamWorks Animation animated film Madagascar: The penguins Skipper , Kowalski , Private , and Rico ; the lemurs King Julien , Maurice , and Mort...
and Kung Fu Panda
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness is an American computer-animated television series based on the Kung Fu Panda films. The series was originally set to air on Nickelodeon in 2010, but was pushed back to 2011. A total of 52 episodes have been produced or ordered...
, How To Train Your Dragons series would be much darker and deeper, like the movie. This would be the first Dreamworks Animation series to air on Cartoon Network, rather than Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon is a US cable TV channel.Nickelodeon may also refer to:-In television:*Spinoffs of the Nickelodeon channel:** Nickelodeon Magazine, a children's magazine.** Nickelodeon Universe, an amusement park....
.
Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon
Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon is a 16 minute sequel short film to the feature film, How to Train Your Dragon. The short was originally broadcasted on television on October 14, 2010 on Cartoon NetworkCartoon Network
Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....
, and released next day as a special feature on Blu-ray and double DVD edition of the original feature film. The film follows Hiccup and his young fellows accompanying their mentor, Gobber, on a quest to kill the legendary Boneknapper Dragon.
Book of Dragons
Book of Dragons is a 18 minute short film, based on How to Train Your Dragon, and was released on November 15, 2011, on DVD and Blu-ray, along with Gift of the Night Fury. The short shows Hiccup, Astrid, Toothless and Gobber telling the legend behind the Book of Dragons and revealing insider training secrets about new, never before seen dragons.Gift of the Night Fury
Gift of the Night Fury, formerly known as How to Hatch Your Dragon, is a 22 minute short film based on How to Train Your Dragon, and was released on November 15, 2011, on DVD and Blu-ray, along with Book of Dragons. The short shows Hiccup flying to a new adventure to discover an island of dragons while Toothless goes off on his own.Box office performance
| Film | Release Date | Gross | Rank | Budget | Reference | |||
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| United States | Foreign | Worldwide | All time United States | All time worldwide | ||||
| How to Train Your Dragon How to Train Your Dragon (film) How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 3D computer-animated action fantasy film by DreamWorks Animation loosely based on the 2003 book of the same name. The film stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, and Christopher... |
$217,581,231 | $277,297,528 | $494,878,759 | #92 | #89 | $165,000,000 | ||
| How to Train Your Dragon 2 | ||||||||
| Total | $217,581,231 | $277,297,528 | $494,878,759 | $165,000,000 | ||||
Critical reaction
| Film | Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films—widely known as a film review aggregator. Its name derives from the cliché of audiences throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at a poor stage performance... |
Metacritic Metacritic Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,... |
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| Overall | Top Critics | ||
| How to Train Your Dragon How to Train Your Dragon (film) How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 3D computer-animated action fantasy film by DreamWorks Animation loosely based on the 2003 book of the same name. The film stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, and Christopher... |
98% (168 reviews) | 93% (29 reviews) | 74 (33 reviews) |
| How to Train Your Dragon 2 | |||
| Average Ratings | 98% | 93% | 74 |
Cast and characters
| Character | Films | Shorts | |||
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| How to Train Your Dragon How to Train Your Dragon (film) How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 3D computer-animated action fantasy film by DreamWorks Animation loosely based on the 2003 book of the same name. The film stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, and Christopher... |
How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon is a 2010 animated short film by DreamWorks Animation that is a sequel to the feature film, How to Train Your Dragon.... |
Gift of the Night Fury | Book of Dragons | |
| Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III | Jay Baruchel Jay Baruchel Jonathan Adam Saunders "Jay" Baruchel is a Canadian actor. He has had a successful career in comedy films, and has appeared in supporting roles in such box office successes as Million Dollar Baby, Knocked Up and Tropic Thunder, as well as starring in films like She's Out of My League, The Trotsky,... |
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| Stoick the Vast | Gerard Butler Gerard Butler Gerard James Butler is a Scottish actor who has appeared on film, stage, and television. A trained lawyer, Butler turned to acting in the mid-1990s with small roles in productions such as the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies , which he followed with steady work on television, most notably in... |
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| Gobber the Belch | Craig Ferguson Craig Ferguson Craig Ferguson is a Scottish American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, and producer. He is the host of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, an Emmy Award-nominated, Peabody Award-winning late-night talk show that airs on CBS... |
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| Astrid Hofferson | America Ferrera America Ferrera America Georgina Ferrera is an American actress, best known for playing the lead role in the television comedy series Ugly Betty... |
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| Fishlegs Ingerman | Christopher Mintz-Plasse Christopher Mintz-Plasse Christopher Charles Mintz-Plasse is an American actor known for starring in films such as Superbad, Role Models, Year One, and Kick-Ass.-Early life:... |
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| Snotlout Jorgenson | Jonah Hill Jonah Hill Jonah Hill Feldstein , known professionally as Jonah Hill, is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and comedian. Hill is best known roles for his roles in Superbad, Knocked Up, and Get Him to the Greek. He made his theatrical debut in I Heart Huckabees, alongside Jason Schwartzman and Dustin... |
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| Tuffnut Thorston | T. J. Miller T. J. Miller Todd Joseph Miller , better known as T. J. Miller, is an American actor and stand-up comedian.-Life and career:Miller was born in Denver, Colorado. He attended East High School. Miller then attended the George Washington University in Washington, D.C... |
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| Ruffnut Thorston | Kristen Wiig Kristen Wiig Kristen Carroll Wiig is an American film and television actress who currently appears as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. Wiig was a member of improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings, and has appeared in several films and television series, including Bridesmaids, MacGruber, Flight of... |
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- Note: A dark grey cell indicates the character was not in the film.
Video games
- An action adventureAction-adventure gameAn action-adventure game is a video game that combines elements of the adventure game genre with various action game elements. It is perhaps the broadest and most diverse genre in gaming, and can include many games which might better be categorized under narrow genres...
video game released by ActivisionActivisionActivision is an American publisher, majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. Its current CEO is Robert Kotick. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles...
called How to Train Your DragonHow to Train Your Dragon (video game)How to Train Your Dragon is a action-adventure game based upon the film of the same name. It was developed by Etranges Libellules and Griptonite Games, and released by Activision on March 23, 2010, for the Wii, Xbox 360, PS3 and the Nintendo DS. The game enables players to create their own dragons...
was released for the WiiWiiThe Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others...
, Xbox 360Xbox 360The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
, PS3 and Nintendo DSNintendo DSThe is a portable game console produced by Nintendo, first released on November 21, 2004. A distinctive feature of the system is the presence of two separate LCD screens, the lower of which is a touchscreen, encompassed within a clamshell design, similar to the Game Boy Advance SP...
gaming consoles. It is loosely based on the film and was released on March 23, 2010. - Super Star KartzSuper Star KartzSuper Star Kartz is a racing game based on DreamWorks Animation's Shrek, Madagascar, Monsters vs. Aliens and How to Train Your Dragon. It was released on November 15, 2011. The game uses the Wii Wheel, despite the cover.- Gameplay :...
video game will be released by Activision on November 15, 2011, for PlayStation 3, XBox 360, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo 3DS. The game will feature 14 different characters from DreamWorks' films - How to Train Your Dragon, Madagascar, Shrek, and Monsters vs. AliensMonsters vs. AliensMonsters vs. Aliens is a 2009 American computer-animated 3-D science fiction film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures...
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Ice Show
A Broadway-style production named How To Train Your Dragon ON ICE is currently on Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas.Arena Show
How To Train Your Dragon Arena Spectacular is an arena show adaptation of the feature film How to Train Your Dragon.The show is being produced in partnership with Global Creatures, the company behind another arena show Walking with Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular, and directed by Nigel Jamieson. The score will be composed by John Powell
John Powell
John Powell is a British composer, best known for his scores to motion pictures. He has been based in the United States since 1997 and has composed the scores to over fifty feature films. He rose to fame in the late 1990s and 2000s, scoring numerous animated films, and collaborating with...
and Jonsi
Jón Þór Birgisson
Jón “Jónsi” Þór Birgisson is the guitarist and vocalist for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. He is known for his use of a cello bow on guitar and his falsetto voice. He is also blind in his right eye and is openly gay. His boyfriend Alex Somers has done much of the graphic design for...
from
Sigur Ros
Sigur Rós
Sigur Rós is an Icelandic post-rock band with classicaland minimalist elements. The band is known for its ethereal sound, and frontman Jónsi Birgisson's falsetto vocals and use of bowed guitar. In January 2010, the band announced that they will be on hiatus. Since then, it has since been announced...
. The show will begin its world tour in Australia on March 2, 2012, followed by New Zealand on April 16, 2012, and United States in June 2012.
Arena Spectacular will feature 24 animatronic dragons - 10 different species in various sizes: Nadder, Gronckle, Nightmare, Night Fury (Toothless), Red Death, Skrill, Stinger, Kite Dragon, Zippleback and Egg Biter. It will also feature villagers and Vikings, including Hiccup, Astrid, Stoick, and Gobber.