With Emilia Clarke making headlines this week as she confirmed she’ll never be seen on screen with a dragon again in a post-Game Of Thrones world, it would appear that the world of film and TV now has a ‘Mother of Dragons’ vacancy to fill. Enter Cate Blanchett. Yes, per THR‘s reporting, the two-time Oscar winner is officially heading back to Berk to reprise her role as Viking warrior Valka in Dean DeBlois’ upcoming How To Train Your Dragon 2 live-action remake.
With last year’s first live-action How To Train Your Dragon movie proving a hit with fans and raking in a not-too-shabby $636 million at the global box office, a sequel to DeBlois’ remake of his own animated adventure always seemed inevitable. So inevitable in fact that How To Train Your Dragon 2 was confirmed, with DeBlois once again attached to write and direct, before the first film had even hit cinemas. Blanchett joins Gerard Butler — who plays Valka’s husband Stoick the Vast — as the second actor to reprise their role in the animated movies in live-action, and will star alongside Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James, and Harry Trevaldwyn in the sequel, which will see Hiccup (Thames) and Toothless’ Viking-dragon utopia come under threat from properly menacing dragon subjugator Drago.
At this point, it remains to be seen whether How To Train Your Dragon 2‘s other key new characters, Eret and Drago, will be reprised in live-action by their voice actors (Kit Harington and Djimon Hounsou, respectively). We do however know that Toothless will once again be played by an actual Night Fury, of course. And we’ll see our favourite flying goofball back in action — and on the big screen — when How To Train Your Dragon 2 hits cinemas on 11 June, 2027. *Alexa, play ‘Test Drive’*
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