The accident happened in a workshop at Sky Studios Elstree in the U.K.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 crew member severely injured during production

The accident happened in a workshop at Sky Studios Elstree in the U.K.

By Sharareh Drury

April 21, 2026 6:00 p.m. ET

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- A crew member working on *How to Train Your Dragon 2* suffered an injury this month in an off-set workshop incident.

- The accident happened in a workshop at Sky Studios Elstree in the U.K.

- *How to Train Your Dragon 2 *hits theaters on June 11, 2027.

A crew member for *How to Train Your Dragon 2* has suffered a severe injury.

*Variety *reported that a special effects technician working on Universal’s live-action sequel to 2025's *How to Train Your Dragon* lost multiple fingers in an accident amid production.

The technician severed fingers on one hand while using a saw in a workshop at Sky Studios Elstree, where the film is currently in production. The fingers were not able to be reattached, despite extensive surgery.

Universal has declined to comment.

'How to Train Your Dragon'.

Universal Pictures

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Writer-director and alum of the original animated series Dean DeBlois spoke with ** last year about the dragon-filled fantasy nabbing a sequel before the live-action remake was released in theaters. The news was shared last April at CinemaCon 2025.

"I think once [Universal Pictures] saw a pretty finished version of the movie that we tested with an audience, they felt really confident. And so they wanted to let it be known especially at CinemaCon, because there's so many factors that go into planning for a movie, even two years out, getting screens and premium large format screens, and just getting movie theater exhibitors excited," he shared, adding he was "a little reluctant" to announce the news of the sequel at CinemaCon last April.

He continued, "I'm like, 'Maybe we should just release the movie first and see if people like it before you go and announce another one?' But I understood that that was the audience where you want to get them excited about what's coming."

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Based on the 2010 animated film of the same name, which itself was the first of a trilogy, the live-action remake is also set on the fictional Isle of Berk. It follows Viking teen Hiccup (Mason Thames), whose inability to kill dragons makes him an outcast among his Viking community, frustrating father and chieftain Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler). Hiccup eventually does the unthinkable, befriending a fearsome Night Fury dragon named Toothless — and soon teaching his fellow Vikings the two can live in harmony.

*How to Train Your Dragon 2 *is slated for a June 11, 2027 release.**

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