26-05-2025
How to Train Your Dragon gets new UK streaming home ahead of the remake's release
How to Train Your Dragon has found a new UK streaming home ahead of the live-action remake's release.
The 2010 animated DreamWorks classic aired on ITV1 yesterday, and is now available to stream on ITVX.
That means UK viewers can watch the film for free. The free tier does have ads, but you can pay for ITVX Premium at £5.99 a month/£59.99 a year.
The film follows an awkward teenage viking boy named Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) who decides not to follow in his clan's footsteps by killing a dragon that he meets. Instead, he decides to befriend the creature, calling it Toothless.
Adapted from Cressida Cowell's 2003 book of the same name, the upcoming live-action remake will follow the same plot, and has even brought back Gerard Butler as Hiccup's dad, Stoick the Vast.
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The films also share the same director, Dean DeBlois, who stated that he doesn't understand the criticism about why they're making a live-action version.
"It's an interesting one for me, because I've firmly been on the side of not just adapting those films as a trend," he said.
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"I love animation, and I love those films that come out of the studios, but I've never been for remaking movies in a new medium without any real purpose to it.
"But when Universal talked about this project and seeing it through as a live-action film, it, to me, kind of pinged something in me regarding the making of the first movie that was always an ambition for Chris Sanders and I. Which is to lean into a live-action sensibility."
The How To Train Your Dragon live-action remake is released in cinemas on 9 June. The animated version can be streamed on ITVX now.
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