War Horse trailer

This is the first look at just one of Steven Spielberg's upcoming film projects. If you don't know the story then that's fine by me as I can just imagine all teachers who have taught classes this story or anyone who has seen the WestEnd version of this Michael Monpurgo's book or read this story even tutting as I put this post up on this blog...or even them shaking their head in astonishment that there is someone out there in the 'blogasphere' who hasn't read this story.

Anyhew...here it is anyway. War Horse follows the story of a horse called Joey and how he is trained and made to be a tame horse (as you can see in the trailer above) by Albert who is played by Jeremy Irvine in the years before the First World War breaks out. But when the war does come around Joey is sent to the front line and he must leave behind Albert ( big Aw!!!!!!!!!). Albert then vows to go and find him, but by the end Emilie's grandfather buys him to save Joey from the butcher (which is nice) as he promised her that when she died he would find the horse that she loved and buy him. But her grandfather recognises how much Albert loves the horse he sells Joey to him on the condition that Albert loves Joey for the rest of his life. And he only sells Joey to Albert for 1 penny. Another big Aw moment.

So now we're all up to date on the details of what vaguely happens in the story of War Horse...but if you want to see this film then you can see this in our cinema's and not across the pond in America then you can do so on January 13th 2012.

Just thought I should let you know who else is going to be in this film. So here is the cast members:

• Benedict Cumberbatch...you'l all no doubtedly have seen in the TV series 'Sherlock' or more recently than this he has been starring alongside Johnny Lee Miller in Danny Boyle's stage adaption of Frankenstein.
• Tom Hiddleston who was most recently in Thor playing Loki
• Niels Arestrup who you may or may not have seen in a film called 'The Beat That My Heart Skipped'
• Eddie Marsam who was in Sherlock Holms with Dave (sorry...Jude) Law as Lestrade and he was also in Miami Vice as the guy who got the new look Crocker and Tubbs into the undercover drugs operation where Colin Farrel meets Isabella.
• Emily Watson who you may or may not remeber was in Equilibrium as the other person that was like Christian Bale's character who stops taking the emotion stopping drugs, or if you have watched Heroes she was the Irish girl who teams up with Milo Ventigmilia.
• David Thewlis who you'll no doudtedly  have seen in Harry Potter playing the werewolf who teaches Harry to create his white stag to protect himself from Death Eaters. Also he is Anna Friel's husband.
• David Kross he was in 'The Reader' with Kate Winslet as the love interest.