The new How to Train Your Dragon movie—opening in theaters this weekend—is yet another live-action remake of a beloved animated film. No one asked for it, but, hey, these remakes keep making money!
Written and directed by Dean DeBlois—who also co-wrote and co-directed the original animated movie—this 2025 movie appears to be, basically, a shot-for-shot remake of 2010’s How To Train Your Dragon. Mason Thames stars as protagonist Hiccup Horrendous Haddock, the son of a Viking who goes against his family’s dragon-hunting legacy when he befriends Toothless the friendly dragon. Also starring Nico Parker, Nick Frost, Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn, Ruth Codd, Peter Serafinowicz, and Murray McArthur—and with Gerard Butler reprising his role as Stoick the Vast from the original—the 2025 How to Train Your Dragon movie is sure to bring back lots of memories for millennials and Gen Z.
Here’s what to know about where to watch the new How to Train Your Dragon movie and when we expect to be able to watch the 2025 How to Train Your Dragon movie streaming on Netflix and Peacock.
For now, the new How to Train Your Dragon movie will only available to watch in a movie theater, when it opens in the U.S. on Friday, June 13. You can find a showing near you via Fandango. How to Train Your Dragon 2025 is not yet available to watch online or on streaming.
How to Train Your Dragon is not streaming on Disney+, and will not be on Disney+ any time soon, due to the fact that the film is a Universal Pictures release and not a Disney movie. Not every animated movie is a Disney movie! Almost all Universal movies go to the NBCUniversal streaming platform, Peacock. If you want to watch the How to Train Your Dragon movie at home, you’ll have to wait for the film to be available to buy or rent on digital platforms, or wait for it to stream on Peacock.
Peacock currently offers two subscription types: Premium with ads and Premium Plus ad-free. Peacock Premium costs $7.99/month, while Premium Plus costs $13.99/month.
You can save a bit by subscribing to one of Peacock’s annual plans, which give you 12 months for the price of 10. These cost either $79.99 with ads or $139.99 without ads.
How to Train Your Dragon is not yet streaming on Peacock. Right now, the movie is only in theaters. That said, we do expect to see How to Train Your Dragon streaming on Peacock eventually, but we’re not sure when. Another Universal/Dreamworks release, Dog Man, began streaming on Peacock on May 30, which was about four months after the movie opened in theaters, and about three months after the film released on digital.
If How to Train Your Dragon follows a similar release pattern, you might see the movie on digital by July 2025, and streaming on Peacock around mid-October 2025.
How to Train Your Dragon 2025 is not streaming on Netflix right now, but will likely stream on Netflix after four months after it streams on Peacock, as part of Universal’s deal with Netflix that sends Universal/Dreamworks animated movies to Netflix for a limited period. (Even though How to Train Your Dragon is a live-action, it’s being produced by Dreamworks Animation.) If our prediction for the Peacock release of How to Train Your Dragon 2025 is correct, then you might see How to Train Your Dragon streaming on Netflix around February 2026.
This is all speculation. If you want to watch the How to Train Your Dragon 2025 movie right away, you can catch the movie in theaters.