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DreamWorks SKG. Emily Watson Rosie Narracott. David Thewlis Mr. Jeremy Irvine Albert. Peter Mullan Ted Narracott. Niels Arestrup Grandfather. Tom Hiddleston Capt. Benedict Cumberbatch Major Stewart. Toby Kebbell Geordie Soldier. Patrick Kennedy Lt. David Kross Gunther. Celine Buckens Emilie. Robert Emms David Lyon. Rainer Bock Brandt. Geoff Bell Sgt. Sam Perkins. Leonard Carow Michael. Matt Milne Andrew Easton. Steven Spielberg Director. Lee Hall Screenwriter. Richard Curtis Screenwriter.

Steven Spielberg Producer. Kathleen Kennedy Producer. Frank Marshall Executive Producer. Revel Guest Executive Producer. Janusz Kaminski Cinematographer. John Williams Original Music. Rick Carter Production Design. Michael Kahn Film Editor. Joanna Johnston Costume Designer. Jina Jay Casting. Neil Lamont Supervising Art Direction.

Gary Tomkins Art Director. Molly Hughes Art Director. Hattie Storey Art Director. Lee Sandales Set Decoration. View All Critic Reviews Feb 06, Action Adventure Drama. Director Steven Spielberg. Top credits Director Steven Spielberg. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Trailer No. War Horse: Teaser Trailer. Clip Photos Top cast Edit. David Thewlis Lyons as Lyons. Benedict Cumberbatch Maj. Jamie Stewart as Maj. Jamie Stewart. Niels Arestrup Grandfather as Grandfather.

Tom Hiddleston Capt. Nicholls as Capt. Celine Buckens Emilie as Emilie. Patrick Kennedy Lt. Charlie Waverly as Lt. Charlie Waverly. Leonard Carow Michael as Michael. Morpurgo researched the subject further and learned that a million horses died on the British side; he extrapolated an overall figure of 10 million horse deaths on all sides.

Of the million horses that were sent abroad from the UK, only 62, returned, the rest dying in the war or slaughtered in France for meat.

After observing a young boy with a stammer forming a fond relationship with and talking fluently to a horse at a farm run by Morpurgo's charity Farms for City Children, Morpurgo found a way to tell the story through the horse and its relations with the various people it meets before and during the course of the war: a young Devon farmboy, a British cavalry officer, a German soldier, and an old Frenchman and his granddaughter.

Morpurgo tried to adapt the book into a film screenplay, working for over five years with Simon Channing-Williams, but in the end they had to admit defeat.

The book was successfully adapted for a stage play by Nick Stafford in To work dramatically, the story could not be told solely through the viewpoint of the horse as it was in the book , and so the film version with a screenplay by Richard Curtis and Lee Hall is based on the narrative approach of the stage play more than that of the book.

Unlike the play, which used puppet horses, the film uses real horses and CGI. Lack of finances meant that it was an informal arrangement, with the film rights not formally sold by Morpurgo to Guest's production company and no-one being paid for the work they undertook.

In , film producer Kathleen Kennedy saw the critically acclaimed production of War Horse in London's West End with her husband, fellow producer Frank Marshall and their two daughters. They were very impressed by the story and Marshall has recalled how he was amazed that no-one had already bought the film rights to the book.

Steven Spielberg was told about War Horse by several people, including Kennedy, who was his colleague at Amblin Entertainment. Its heart and its message provide a story that can be felt in every country. He admitted to being moved to tears by the performance. Hall commented that "Weirdly the week that we finished it [the screenplay], Spielberg expressed an interest, we sent him the script, and within a couple of weeks he'd decided he was going to make the film—it was one of those situations that never happens in the world of film.

Curtis was initially reluctant to take part, but on meeting Spielberg they got on so well that Curtis rethought and committed to work on the script. Curtis has stated that the screenplay is closer to the book than the play, and that 'the existence of the play itself helped him "be brave" about his own adaptation. Having previously only been slated to produce the film, Spielberg decided to direct "the second I read [Curtis's] first draft.

It happened faster than anything else we've [Spielberg and Snider] done together. Speaking at the Tribeca Film Festival in April , actor Peter Mullan said that he took the part not just because Spielberg was directing, but also because of the 'beautiful script, really nice script'. According to an account of the book, play, and film's development by Michael Morpurgo, within weeks of hearing from Kennedy about the London theatre production, Spielberg had "seen the play, met the cast, visited the Imperial War Museum and decided this would be his next film.

In the weeks that followed he worked with Lee Hall and Richard Curtis on the script, and within months the film was being made". Spielberg was able to act so quickly because he was on a hiatus, waiting for the animation on his other release film, The Adventures of Tintin, to be completed. Kathleen Kennedy elaborated on the appeal of the story: "In cinema we've told very few stories about World War I and I think that's one of the things that attracted us to this It's a forgotten war in the United States, and that had a very powerful effect on Steven and I [sic].

After some speculation, the cast for War Horse was announced on 17 June It had been rumoured in the previous week that Eddie Redmayne had been cast in the lead part as Albert Narracott; however, relatively unknown stage actor Jeremy Irvine was chosen instead.

Spielberg commented after seeing hundreds of young boys reading for the role, Irvine had come in and done a cold reading and that "his performance was very natural, very authentic. Casting for extras took place in Devon in late July In all, some 5, extras were used in the film. The granddaughter of Captain Budgett, one of the World War I veterans who had inspired Morpurgo to write the story, acted as an extra in scenes filmed in Castle Combe, and Morpurgo himself filmed a cameo role there, along with his wife Clare.

Prior to the start of filming, some of the actors underwent two months of intensive horse training. Spielberg films are renowned for the levels of secrecy and security during filming, and War Horse was no exception: filming took place under the codename Dartmoor. The filming period took 'about 64 days' in total. Filming of War Horse began with the cavalry scenes being filmed at Stratfield Saye House in north Hampshire, the estate of the Duke of Wellington, where incidentally Wellington's war horse Copenhagen is buried.

Here a cavalry charge involving extras was filmed. Filming on location on Dartmoor, Devon started in August Initially, Spielberg was only going to have four or five days' worth of second unit material shot in Devon, but after Kathleen Kennedy sent him photographs of the various locations she had scouted, he decided to cut other elements of the story to enable more filming to take place in countryside that Kennedy described as "so extraordinarily beautiful and absolutely perfect for the story".

Ditsworthy Warren House, an isolated Grade II listed building near Sheepstor on Dartmoor served as the Narracott family's farmhouse, and many scenes were filmed in the surrounding area.

On 11 September , the annual Dartmoor Yomp was re-routed to allow filming to continue undisturbed. Spielberg praised the beauty of the Dartmoor countryside: "I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming War Horse on Dartmoor And, with two-and-a-half weeks of extensive coverage of landscapes and skies, I hardly scratched the surface of the visual opportunities that were offered to me.

Although Devon rural locations were used, scenes in the main village in the story were filmed at the Wiltshire village of Castle Combe, despite the vernacular architecture of Devon predominantly cob walls and thatched roofs being very different from that of Wiltshire stone walls and stone tiled roofs. Filming began there on 21 September and continued until 1 October Some residents of Castle Combe were angered by the imposition of tightened security within the village, claiming they could not enter the village without waiting at perimeter barriers until breaks in filming.

After Castle Combe, the production moved on to Wisley Airfield in Surrey, where no man's land battlefield scenes were filmed. Shooting of wartime camp scenes also took place for about two weeks from 4 October at Bourne Wood near Farnham in Surrey, a frequent location for filming. On 13—14 October scenes were shot at the stately home Luton Hoo.

Filming was also scheduled to be undertaken at Caerwent in Wales. The film shoot was completed in the last week of October , with the entire movie, French scenes included, being shot in the UK, apart from some pick-up shots of a bay foal filmed in March in California.