The runtime for the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon has been confirmed.
Set to be released on 9 June, the film follows Viking boy Hiccup (Mason Thames), who defies centuries of tradition by befriending a dragon, banding together to fight an ancient evil threatening his village.
Unlike the 2010 original, we're set to get even more action as it has been confirmed that the latest film will be 25 minutes longer than its predecessor.
The latest How to Train Your Dragon will be 125 minutes long (per BBFC), whereas the original stood at 100 minutes.
Early screenings have seen the remake dubbed "stunning" and "perfect" by critics, as well as being lauded as "the family film of the summer."
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It will be directed by Dean DeBlois, who co-directed the original film, with a cast rounded out by Gerard Butler, Nick Frost, Nico Parker, Julian Dennison, Bronwyn James, and Gabriel Howell.
It's not the first expansion of the beloved 2010 film, with How to Train Your Dragon 2 released in 2014 and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World in 2019.
The new film garnered controversy when it was first announced, with many fans slating the prospect of a live-action adaptation, something DeBlois admitted he didn't understand.
He told The AU Review: "It’s an interesting one for me, because I’ve firmly been on the side of not just adapting those films as a trend.
"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."
How To Train Your Dragon is released in cinemas on 9 June.
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