New How to Train Your Dragon show takes place 1,300 years after movies

How to Train Your Dragon The franchise is returning with a sequel series. How to train your Dragon in The Nine Realms This time there’s a twist.

The new series from DreamWorks, which will stream on both Peacock and Hulu, will explore the world of How to Train Your Dragon, but 1,300 years after Hiccup and Toothless’s adventures, in our modern day world. Berk, the dragons, and their home in the Earth’s middle, were actually real. This is because of a geological anomaly that brings them into modern times.

Here’s the full summary:

1300 years from the events of How to train your dragonModern times have made dragons a mere legend. 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.

As the series takes place over a millennium after the events of the movie trilogy, it’s massively unlikely that Hiccup, Astrid, or Toothless will make appearances. But the dragon featured in the little teaser bears a resemblance to Toothless and the Lightfury’s multicolored offspring, so the legend lives on in another way.

How to Train Your Dragon in The Nine RealmsPeacock and Hulu will make their debuts on December 23rd.