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Dreamworks is bringing its hit How To Drain Your Dragon franchise back to television this holiday season with a new half-hour special.
How To Train Your Dragon Homecoming is scheduled to air at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT Dec. 3 on NBC. The story reunites stars Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Gerard Butler and Craig Ferguson for a story that picks up 10 years after the end of the property’s movie trilogy. It bridges the span where the trilogy’s finale ended and the reunion of Hiccup and Toothless at that movie’s very end.
Hiccup and Toothless open the 30-minute special, sharing stories of their adventures with their families.There is just one problem. With so much time having elapsed between the end of the trilogy’s climactic battle and the friends’ reunion, the vikings had forgotten about the bond between the dragons and vikings. This leads Hiccup to come up with the idea to develop a grand holiday pageant celebrating that once unbreakable bond.
Tim Johnson (Home, Antz) directed the new special. Jonathan Groff (black–ish) and Jon Pollack (Modern Family) co-wrote the script for the brand new holiday special. Craig Rittenbaum (Dreamworks Dragons) associate produced the special.
How To Train Your Dragon Homecoming is scheduled for release on DVD Dec. 3, the same day it airs on NBC. It will premiere on digital on Dec. 4 and on Hulu on Dec. 5.
The new special is just the latest appearance that the hugely popular franchise has had on television. It has also spawned the animated series Dragons: Riders of Berk and Dragons: Race To The Edge as well as the previously released holiday special, Dragons Holiday: Gift of the Night Fury.
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