How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
The trilogy's finale, in which Hiccup lets Toothless and the dragons go to the Hidden World.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is a 2019 animated fantasy film written and directed by Dean DeBlois and the final installment of the trilogy. It follows 21-year-old Hiccup as he seeks the "Hidden World", a dragon utopia, while Toothless forms a bond with a female Light Fury and the dragon hunter Grimmel the Grisly threatens them. It was released in the United States on February 22, 2019, grossed $540 million and was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 92nd Academy Awards.
Quick Facts
- Director
- Dean DeBlois
- Producer
- Brad Lewis; Bonnie Arnold
- Based on
- How to Train Your Dragon, Cressida Cowell
- Music
- John Powell
- Editing
- John K. Carr
- Studio
- DreamWorks Animation
- Distributor
- Universal Pictures
- Released
- 3 January 2019, Australia, 22 February 2019, United States
Lore & Background
A year after becoming chieftain, Hiccup's Berk is overcrowded with rescued dragons and under constant attack by hunters. Grimmel, who boasts of having killed nearly every Night Fury, uses a captive Light Fury as bait for Toothless; after his Deathgrippers destroy Berk, the villagers settle a new island, New Berk. Toothless follows the Light Fury to the Hidden World and becomes its alpha, while Grimmel captures both dragons and uses Toothless to seize Berk's dragons. In the final fight Hiccup slips free of his prosthetic leg, which Grimmel is holding, and Grimmel falls to his death. Realising that dragons are not safe among humans, the Berkians release them to the Hidden World; Hiccup and Astrid marry and become chieftains, and a decade later they visit Toothless, the Light Fury and their three Night Lights with their own children.
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