Butlers

It is one of Gerard Butler’s most highly rated roles (“honestly, a masterpiece” he said. one of the users of the AlloCiné website), although it is not exactly one of his best-known interpretations. And in fact, it was not the first time that Butler gave life to Stoick the Vast: he had already given him a voice in the animated films of ‘How to train your dragon’. However, it was with the live-action version, released in 2025, where he earned the applause of websites such as the aforementioned AlloCiné, where he has the best score of all his performances, ahead of more popular films such as ‘300’. You can check if the hype it’s for both Movistar Plus and SkyShowtime. In the film we will travel to the island of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been killing each other for generations without anyone being very clear about the reason for this conflict. Hiccup is the son of Chief Stoick and the Viking least prepared for war: he prefers to think rather than strike, and that makes him an embarrassment to his father and the laughingstock of the town. Everything changes when he wounds a dragon, which instead of finishing off he decides to heal and understand. The friendship that is born between the two dismantles everything Hiccup thought he knew about dragons, and ends up forcing his entire island to choose between tradition and change. The ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ saga was born in 2003 with Cressida Cowell’s novels, which sold more than sixteen million copiesand jumped to the movies in 2010 with the help of Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, the same tandem that would later direct ‘Lilo and Stitch’ separately. Fifteen years later, DeBlois returned alone behind the camera, marking a very special milestone: it was the first time that the original director of an animated film also directed his own live-action remake. The film also has a very pronounced emotional component for Butler: during the production of the film in Belfast his mother fell ill, so the actor frequently traveled to Scotland on weekends to accompany her. Finally, he died shortly before the world premiere of this live-action adaptation. The film paid an emotional tribute to him, with a few lines of dedication in its credits. In Xataka | Two hours of claustrophobic melodrama that not even Tarantino could endure: “I saw it in the cinema and I barely made it to the credits”