Cate Blanchett is reprising her role Valka for the live-action adaptation of How to Train Your Dragon 2! Writer and director Dean DeBlois has said in some interviews that Valka Haddock in the animated film adaptation was written for Cate. She was offered the animated version part in 2011, and appeared on the second installment released in 2014. The live-action film set for 11 June 2027 release is now in production according to IMDb and Production List.

Cate also moderated a conversation with Joel Edgerton about the film, Train Dreams, directed by Clint Bentley. The film can be streamed on Netflix.

Cate Blanchett is riding the dragons once again, this time in the flesh.

The two-time Oscar winner has inked a deal to reprise her role as Viking warrior Valka in Universal Pictures’ live-action How to Train Your Dragon 2.

Dean DeBlois, who co-created the screen franchise and wrote and directed last year’s first live-action outing, is back as writer, director and executive producer of the feature.

The first live-action movie was released in June 2025 and earned $636 million worldwide. The franchise is based on the best-selling books series by Cressida Cowell.

Blanchett joins Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gerard Butler, Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James and Harry Trevaldwyn in the sequel.

Adapting the second installment, which was released in 2014, the movie continues the adventures of Hiccup (Thames), the dragon-befriending Viking who opened up his village to the possibilities of coexisting with the flying, fire-breathing creatures.

Valka is the long-lost mother of Hiccup, and wife of Viking leader Stoick the Vast. Butler voiced the character in the animated movies and is reprising the part in the live-action iterations.

Blanchett also voiced Valka in the animated movies and is now the second actor to make the transition to live-action.

Source: THR