Though How to Train Your Dragon 2 won’t be unleashed until this Friday, already the studio is kicking around a fourth installment.

The revelation about How to Train Your Dragon 4 came in an interview with Dragon 2 composer John Powell, who told Collider that Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg had run the idea by trilogy director Dean DeBlois.

“I saw Dean in Cannes, we had a premiere of the film there, and he was very merry and a bit drunk and he sort of knew about [How to Train Your Dragon] 3 and I think it was mentioned to him by Jeffrey that maybe they would do 4,” Powell said.

The idea surprised DeBlois and the composer. “That was definitely, I think, a real kind of eye-opener for Dean and for me because it’s like, ‘Hey I thought this was a trilogy?’ (laughs). So I don’t know, and it might be good because he’s got a lot of story left to tell, so maybe splitting it into two will work, but I just don’t know about that yet. I’m supposing that at the moment, Dean has an idea for the third one and he isn’t telling any of us yet.”

Dreamworks has already set a June 17, 2016 release date for How to Train Your Dragon 3 – a much shorter gap than the four-year wait between the original movie and this Friday’s sequel.

How to Train Your Dragon is easily Dreamworks’ hottest franchise right now, so an additional film wouldn’t come as too big of a surprise. The series has spawned huge amounts of merchandise as well as a television series which will release new episodes exclusively on Netflix next year.

Hypable attended a How to Train Your Dragon 2 press day in May and will be sharing a couple of reports from our visit later this week. We had the opportunity to see the movie and can assure you that it’s a worthy follow up with a couple of genuine surprises.