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Gerard Butler isn’t the only actor from the animated How to Train Your Dragon trilogy that writer-director Dean DeBlois wants to bring back for the live-action remakes.
Speaking with ahead of the release of the live-action How to Train Your Dragon remake, DeBlois revealed that he is hoping to get Cate Blanchett back to play Valka in the already-announced sequel, How to Train Your Dragon 2, which will serve as a faithful live-action adaptation of the 2014 DreamWorks Animation movie of the same name. «Well, I’m wishful as well. It’s still early days,» DeBlois shared on the movie’s red carpet premiere. «I think she is probably waiting for a script, but I’ve been knocking on that door. I wrote the character of Valka for her, so I told her it’ll always be hers to turn down first.»
Introduced in How to Train Your Dragon 2, Valka is a dragon rescuer and long-lost mother to Hiccup and wife of Stoick. Blanchett voiced the role in the 2014 animated movie and its 2018 sequel, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. If Blanchett ultimately decides to return to the How to Train Your Dragon franchise, she would become the second cast member from the animated trilogy to reprise their role in the live-action remakes, after Gerard Butler, who portrays her character’s husband, Stoick the Vast.
How to Train Your Dragon 2 Will Age Up Toothless
Universal is expecting How to Train Your Dragon to be a major hit at the box office, as the studio has already greenlit a sequel, which will be written and directed by DeBlois, with MasonThames and Nico Parker also reprising their respective roles as Hiccup and Astrid. Just as the original animated trilogy followed Hiccup and Toothless from adolescence to adulthood, DeBlois confirmed that the live-action remakes will follow suit, sharing that the sequel will subtly age Toothless’ CG-design.
«The idea is that Toothless is roughly Hiccup’s age in dragon years, so he is a juvenile, an adolescent, as well, aging into adulthood. That is going to alter his design in subtle ways, but mostly it’s going to alter his mentality because he’s a very sentient dragon. He has his own opinions about everything, and he’ll also start to come into his own as a leader of his kind,» DeBlois explained.
DeBlois also teased how certain moments from the sequel will have a harder emotional impact when portrayed in live-action, such as «the whole idea of Toothless being weaponized and turned against Hiccup and Stoic intervening like that, that’s a pretty heavy moment. It was heavy for animation. I think it’ll get even weightier in live action, so I look forward to that, too, because there’s something about the second movie. That, for most fans, is their favorite because it tackles tougher subject matter. It’s a little bit darker and more expansive, so I’m looking forward to it. I’m only writing right now, but I’ll get there. I’ll definitely get there.»
How to Train Your Dragon hits theaters on June 13.
