According to IGN Africa, discussion is heating up around a live-action adaptation of How to Train Your Dragon 2, the beloved sequel that expanded Hiccup's world with new dragons, a long-lost mother, and one of animation's most heartbreaking villain turns.
Why This Sequel Is a Fancasting Goldmine
The first live-action How to Train Your Dragon film is already in the pipeline, so the question of who carries the franchise into a sequel is more than hypothetical — it's a natural next step for fans to start dreaming about now. The second chapter raises the stakes considerably: Hiccup is older, the Viking world is wider, and the cast of characters expands dramatically with Valka, Eret, and the warlord Drago Bludvist all entering the picture. That's a lot of roles to fill, and a lot of opinions to have.
For myCast users, this is exactly the kind of property where early fancasting pays off. The sequel's emotional core — reuniting a family, reckoning with loss, and a hero stepping into his father's shadow — demands actors who can carry real dramatic weight alongside the spectacle. So who does the fanbase actually want?
What myCast Fans Are Saying
The community has been busy across multiple stories, and the results reveal some genuinely compelling consensus picks — as well as a few healthy disagreements worth diving into.
On the How To Train Your Dragon 2 story, fans have coalesced around Mason Thames for Hiccup and Nico Parker for Astrid, each pulling 2 votes. Thames, fresh off The Black Phone, has exactly the kind of quiet intensity that older Hiccup requires — he's no longer the scrappy underdog but a young man carrying the weight of a tribe. Parker, who held her own in The Last of Us, brings a grounded toughness that Astrid absolutely demands. The same story also sees Gerard Butler — who voiced Stoick in the original — earning 2 votes to reprise the role in live-action, which would be a genuinely satisfying piece of franchise continuity. Cate Blanchett picking up 2 votes for Valka is, frankly, inspired casting: she has the otherworldly gravitas and physical presence to make a woman who's lived among dragons for twenty years completely believable.