Trailers of the film "War Horse" are now all over the internet and posters are up in most movie theater announcing the arrival of the movie on December 25, 2011, just in time for holiday family enjoyment.
The world premiere of the film was held on Sunday, December 4, at the Avery Fisher Hall of the Lincoln Center in New York, where the Tony award winning Broadway production of the play of "War Horse" is currently playing in the neighboring Vivian Beaumont Theater.
The movie is based on the book " War Horse," a children's novel set during World War I, by British author Michael Morpurgo, which was first published in the United Kingdom in 1982, and then adapted as a stage play in 2007.
The story is about a young man and his horse and is set in rural England and Europe during the First World War. "War Horse" begins with the remarkable friendship between Joey, the horse, and Albert, who tames and trains him. They are parted when the horse is sold to the military at the beginning of World War One.
The film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets—British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter—before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man's Land.
War Horse is an epic adventure directed by Steven Spielberg, and is a tale of loyalty, hope and tenacity. A successful book, the story was turned into a hugely successful international theatrical hit that is arriving on Broadway next year. It now comes to screen in an epic adaptation by one of the great directors in film history.
The young granddaughter in the film is played by Emily Watson who reports that she is very much afraid of horses, but didn't let director Spielberg know of her fears because she saw the part of the granddaughter as something she truly wanted to do.
During the First World War nearly half a million privately owned horses in Great Britain were recruited for war and sent to the front lines – unfortunately, only about 50,000 came back.