Cast Announced for WAR HORSE

Empire Online was the first with the news that director extraordinaire Steven Spielberg has a cast for his lastest film, WAR HORSE. Based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, the film with be filled with an international cast consisting of Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Peter Mullan, Niels Arestrup, David Thewlis, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Nicolas Bro, David Kross, Leonard Carow, Celine Buckens, Rainer Bock, Patrick Kennedy, Stephen Graham, and Robert Emms.

The synopsis:

The book recounts the epic tale of an extraordinary friendship between a boy and a horse, who are separated, but whose fates continue to be intertwined over the sweeping backdrop of World War I.

Directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis, produced by Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, with Frank Marshall and Revel Guest serving as executive producers, WAR HORSE has a release date scheduled for August 10, 2011.

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