In earlier drafts of the film, Drago Bludvist was planned to reprise his role as the movie's main villain, and be redeemed by the end of the story. In a recent interview with Cloneweb, it was revealed that Drago's redemption, and overall return, was scrapped halfway through the movie's production.
How to Train Your Dragon is the first animated franchise in history to have three films or more and have all of them nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
DreamWorks Animation's first franchise in which each movie was distributed by a different film studio: Paramount Pictures distributed How to Train Your Dragon (2010), 20th Century Fox distributed How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), and Universal Pictures distributed How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.
Justin Rupple replaced T.J. Miller as the voice of Tuffnut Thorston after T.J.'s destructive behavior made headlines in mid-2018.
This film has the best opening weekend of the franchise with $55 million. It then only took 12 days to gross over $100 million domestically.