{"id":2255333,"date":"2026-01-28T22:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2255333"},"modified":"2026-01-28T22:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:12:22","slug":"ted-lasso-star-phil-dunster-joins-how-to-train-your-dragon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ted-lasso-star-phil-dunster-joins-how-to-train-your-dragon-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ted Lasso\u2019 Star Phil Dunster Joins \u2018How to Train Your Dragon 2\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ted Lasso star Phil Dunster<\/a> is set to join the cast of Universal Pictures\u2019 live-action How to Train Your Dragon 2<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Dunster will bring to life the character of Eret<\/a>, who shows up in in the 2014 animated movie as the cocky, boastful and self-proclaimed \u201cfinest dragon trapper alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dunster joins Mason Thames<\/a>, Nico Parker<\/a>, Gerard Butler<\/a>, Cate Blanchett<\/a>, \u00d3lafur Darri \u00d3lafsson<\/a>, Julian Dennison<\/a>, Gabriel Howell<\/a>, Bronwyn James<\/a> and Harry Trevaldwyn<\/a> in the sequel to Universal<\/a>\u2019s 2025 hit that earned $636 million worldwide. The franchise is based on the best-selling books series by Cressida Cowell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dean DeBlois<\/a>, who co-created the screen franchise and wrote and directed last year\u2019s live-action outing, is back as writer, director and executive producer of the feature.<\/p>\n

Adapting the second installment, which was released in 2014, the movie continues the adventures of Hiccup (Thames), the dragon-befriending Viking<\/a> who opened up his village to the possibilities of coexisting with the flying,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ted Lasso star Phil Dunster is set to join the cast of Universal Pictures\u2019 live-action How to Train Your Dragon 2 . Dunster will bring to life the character of Eret, who shows up in in the 2014 animated movie as the cocky, boastful and self-proclaimed \u201cfinest dragon trapper alive.\u201d Dunster joins Mason Thames, Nico […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2255334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2255333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/\u2018Ted-Lasso-Star-Phil-Dunster-Joins-\u2018How-to-Train-Your.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255335,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255333\/revisions\/2255335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2255334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}