DreamWorks Animation has officially announced Dragons: The Nine Realms, a new How to Train Your Dragon spinoff series set to premiere on both Hulu and Peacock this December.
Set 1,300 years after the events of How to Train Your Dragon, Dragons: The Nine Realms takes place in a modern world where dragons are now nothing more than a legend. But 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."
SERIES DETAILS:
Release Date: December 23 on Hulu and Peacock
Episodes: 6 x 22
Voice Actors: Jeremy Shada
Executive Producer and Showrunner: John Tellegen
Executive Producers: Chuck Austen and Henry Gilroy
Supervising Producer: Beth Sleven
Dragons: The Nine Realms stars voice actor Jeremy Shada, known for his role as Finn the Human on Cartoon Network's Adventure Time. The series is executive produced by Chuck Austen (Steven Universe, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) and Henry Gilroy (Star Wars: The Clone Wars), with John Tellegen (Dragons: Rescue Riders, Dragons: Race to the Edge) serving as executive producer and showrunner. Beth Sleven (Spirit Riding Free) serves as supervising producer.
Based on the children's novel series of the same name by author Cressida Cowell, DreamWorks' original How to Train Your Dragon film hit theaters in 2010. Two sequels, How to Train Your Dragon 2 and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, released in 2014 and 2019, respectively.
The Nine Realms is only the latest television series to spin out of the films. The first, originally titled DreamWorks Dragons, ran on Cartoon Network for two seasons from 2011 to 2014. DreamWorks Dragons was then picked up by Netflix, where it was retitled Dragons: Race to the Edge and ran for an additional six seasons from 2015 to 2018. Race to the Edge was followed by Dragons: Rescue Riders, a preschool-oriented spinoff series that premiered on Netflix in 2019. How to Train Your Dragon has also spawned a number of short films, comic books and video games.
Dragons: The Nine Realms premieres Dec. 23 on Hulu and Peacock.
Source: DreamWorks; YouTube