Reception Box office ĭragon Rider has earned $6,385,553 at the global box office. In May 2018, the castings of Felicity Jones, Patrick Stewart, Freddie Highmore, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Nonso Anozie, Meera Syal and Sanjeev Bhaskar were announced. The production work took place in Berlin, Munich and Antwerp. The animation was handled by Spain's Able & Baker and Cyborn Studios, while additional parts of the lighting and compositing took place at Rise FX and Big Hug FX. The film is a German-Belgian co-production. It was announced in June 2017 that production had begun on an animated adaptation of Cornelia Funke's novel. But the unlikely trio have to learn to pull together, because they are being hunted by Nettlebrand, an evil dragon-eating monster which was created by an alchemist with the aim of tracking down and destroying every dragon on Earth. While Ben and Firedrake make friends quickly, Sorrel becomes increasingly distrustful and tries her best to get rid of the orphan at every opportunity. On their quest, Firedrake and Sorrel encounter Ben, an orphan and stray, who claims to be a dragon rider. He wants to find the 'Rim of Heaven', the dragons' mysterious haven. When humans are about to destroy his family's very last refuge, Firedrake secretly sets off on an adventurous journey with Sorrel a bad-tempered cat-like forest brownie. He wants to show the older generations of dragons that he is a real dragon. Premise įiredrake is a young silver dragon, who has had enough of constantly having to hide in a wooded valley.

Netflix acquired global distribution rights to the film, and it was released on the streaming platform on 10 September 2021.

The film was due to be released in theatres on 6 August 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film release was postponed until 1 October 2020. Dragon Rider ( German: Drachenreiter), also known as Firedrake the Silver Dragon by Netflix, is a 2020 3D computer-animated fantasy film while officially based on the 1997 novel of the same name by Cornelia Funke, the film takes influence from the How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell, with its visuals and marketing based on that of the DreamWorks franchise.

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