How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2027) Live Action Trailer: Status and Release Date

As of November 2, 2026, no official trailer for the live action How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2027) has been confirmed by Universal Pictures or DreamWorks Animation, and no trailer date has been announced. Principal photography ended on May 15, 2026, after 81 days, when director Dean DeBlois announced that the film was moving to post production. Universal set the June 11, 2027 US release date at CinemaCon in April 2025, and the May 2026 report said that date had not changed. That leaves about seven months before release, and a first trailer would normally arrive inside that window, although no studio has said when.

The trailers in search results look wrong because most of them promote the animated How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), not the live action How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2027). DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox released those clips ahead of the 2014 film's June 13, 2014 US opening, and Dean DeBlois directed that version too. They feature Jay Baruchel's voice as Hiccup and have nothing to do with the new film. A genuine preview of the live action sequel would show Mason Thames as Hiccup and carry Universal Pictures as the distributor, which is a quick way to spot fan edits and mashups built from older footage (they are common while the real thing is missing).

The live action How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2027) is a remake of the 2014 animated film, and it follows How to Train Your Dragon (2025), the live action remake of How to Train Your Dragon (2010). In the animated version, the story opens five years after the Vikings of Berk made peace with dragons, with Hiccup and Toothless charting unexplored lands while his father Stoick pushes him to prepare to become chief. Hiccup and Astrid then find a burnt forest and are captured by trappers working for a warlord named Drago, who wants an army of enslaved dragons. A live action trailer would be expected to draw on that setup, though that is an assumption, because Universal has not published its own synopsis.

A trailer would feature Mason Thames as Hiccup and Nico Parker as Astrid, with Gerard Butler, Nick Frost, Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James and Harry Trevaldwyn returning and Cate Blanchett added as Valka. Deseret News reported the returning ensemble in April 2025, including Butler as Stoick the Vast, Frost as Gobber, Dennison as Fishlegs, Howell as Snotlout, James as Ruffnut and Trevaldwyn as Tuffnut. TheWrap reported Blanchett's casting on January 15, 2026, and she also voiced Valka in How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014).

Toothless, the Night Fury Hiccup befriends in How to Train Your Dragon (2025), has no performer listed in the reported cast. No live action casting has been reported for Drago, the warlord Djimon Hounsou voiced in How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014). Dean DeBlois directs, and Variety Australia reported that he also writes. TheWrap reported Marc Platt and Adam Siegel as producers.

How to Train Your Dragon (2025) earned $636.9 million worldwide on a $150 million budget. It opened on June 13, 2025 in the US and UK and on June 12 in Australia, and it runs 125 minutes. For comparison, the animated How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) ran 102 minutes and earned $621.5 million worldwide on a $145 million budget, so the 2025 film grossed slightly more on a slightly larger budget. The 2025 film also runs 27 minutes longer than the 98-minute How to Train Your Dragon (2010), which suggests how much room the live action versions leave for added material, though Universal has given no runtime for the 2027 film. The 2025 film was DeBlois's live action debut, with Roger Deakins as a consultant and John Powell returning as composer. The 2014 original was shown Out of Competition at Cannes in 2014, a festival profile the live action sequel has not yet been reported to share.

You can catch up on Netflix, where How to Train Your Dragon (2025) streams in the US and Australia, and on Paramount Plus in the US for How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014). In the UK, How to Train Your Dragon (2025) is on Sky Go and Now TV Cinema, as of November 2, 2026. If you want a refresher on the right sequence, the How to Train Your Dragon films in order guide lays out both release and chronological order, and the live action versus animated comparison of the How to Train Your Dragon films sets the two versions of each story side by side. For the latest on the film itself, including its date and confirmed cast, the How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2027) page is updated first whenever Universal announces something new.