How to Train Your Dragon Teaser Gives Us Toothless and Hiccups Meet-Cute [Video]

The marketing train is chugging out of the station for the live-action version of How to Train Your Dragon. Today, Universal Pictures released a teaser trailer for the film, which gives us our first real glimpse of Hiccup and Toothless, including their meet-cute where Hiccup can’t bring himself to kill the dragon, and thus indelibly changes how things work in the land of Berk.

Here’s the official synopsis, which also handily tells you who will be playing the live-action version of many characters:

On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup (Mason Thames; The Black Phone, For All Mankind) stands apart. The inventive yet overlooked son of Chief Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler, reprising his voice role from the animated franchise), Hiccup defies centuries of tradition when he befriends Toothless, a feared Night Fury dragon. Their unlikely bond reveals the true nature of dragons, challenging the very foundations of Viking society.

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