Steven Spielberg looks set to have a busy second half to 2011, what with the arrival of the motion-capture animation The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn followed by the epic WWI drama War Horse, based on Michael Morpurgo's 1982 novel of the same name and its subsequent 2007 stage adaptation. Now I was already sold by the idea of Spielberg doing World War One but after watching the first trailer - released earlier today - I'm now all but convinced that this is going to be great. War Horse stars Jeremy Irvine (Life Bites), Benedict Cumberbatch (Atonement), Tom Hiddleston (Thor), David Thewlis (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2), Emily Watson (Cemetery Junction), Toby Kebbell (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time), Peter Mullan (Trainspotting), and Eddie Marsan (Sherlock Holmes), and centres on a young man (Irvine) who heads to the war-ravaged trenches of France to save his horse, Joey, when the animal is sold off to the cavalry.
Take a look at the War Horse trailer...
War Horse hits North America cinemas on December 28th, 2011 and is released in the UK on January 13th, 2012. Next up for Spielberg is the Civil War tale Lincoln, along with an adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson's Robopocalypse.
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