How to Train Your Dragon Remake Adds Series Alum Gerard Butler

Dreamworks’ live-action remake of How to Train Your Train Dragon has added an old new face to its cast. Gerard Butler, who voiced the viking chief Stoick the Brave across the animated films, will reprise his role as the remake’s flesh-and-blood version.

Per Deadline, getting Butler on board for the remake was an intentional move on part of the creators, which includes trilogy director Dean DeBlois. Adding him gives the movie some extra legitimacy and pays tribute to the original voice cast, whose stars—comprising of Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Cate Blanchett, and others—may not be able/willing to pop in for a cameo. It’s a move taken out of Disney’s remake playbook: bring back a film’s original actor for either a quick cameo or a sizable role, as we’ve previously seen with Mulan, The Lion King, and the eventual Lilo & Stitch remake.

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