Dreamworks has performed very, very effectively with its How to Train Your Dragon franchise. Three extraordinarily well-received films, two animated TV collection which have been working concurrently since 2012, and a horde of different media tie-ins have made it one of the beloved youngsters’ collection of the twenty first century. So it’s shocking to find how a lot Dreamworks is keen to shake up the method with its latest Dragons collection.

Unlike all the opposite installments within the collection, which occur in a fantasy Viking-era setting, the upcoming Dragons: The Nine Realms takes place… now. According to the press launch:

“Set 1,300 years after the events of How to Train Your Dragon, dragons are now just a legend to the modern world. When a geological anomaly opens up an immense, miles-deep fissure in the Earth’s surface, scientists from all over the world gather at a new research facility to study the mysterious phenomenon. Soon a group of misfit kids, brought to the site by their parents, uncover the truth about dragons and where they’ve been hiding—a secret they must keep to themselves to protect what they’ve discovered.”

The first teaser trailer doesn’t maintain some other clues, however it actually appears like Adventure Time’s Jeremy Shada voices the lead.

I by no means actually thought of the Dragons films to have taken place on Earth—our Earth—given all of the dragons flying about, so the invention that they’re a part of the true world is definitely extra jarring to me than the large time-skip. Although for the reason that present is titled “The Nine Realms” there’s presumably some area for inter-dimensional Norse chicanery. Still, it’s very bizarre to understand the movies’ stars Hiccup, Astrid, Fishlegs, and Snotlout are all going to be long-dead when the present takes place.

Dragons: The Nine Realms debuts on December 23 on each Hulu and Peacock streaming providers.

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