7/18/2013

Comic-Con: Cate Blanchett and Djimon Hounsou Join 'How to Train Your Dragon 2'




Today's Dreamworks panel at Comic-Con revealed quite a few nuggets of information on How to Train Your Dragon 2. We've already seen a very impressive teaser trailer, but most of the voiced characters had really yet to be revealed. Now we know that two of them will features the voices of newcomers Cate Blanchett and Djimon Hounsou, while details on Kit Harington's character have been revealed.

According to our friends at Bleeding Cool, Harington "is on board to play a cocky dragon trapper called Eret, complete with swagger and a London accent; Djimon Honsou will voice a character taking those trapped dragons and turning them into an army; and Cate Blanchett plays Valka, a stealthy vigilante type set on rescuing as many of the dragons as possible."

Jay Baruchel is back as an older Hiccup, with America Ferrera, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, and more returning. How to Train Your Dragon 2 flies into theaters on June 20th 2014.