{"id":8084,"date":"2010-05-04T07:01:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T12:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=8084"},"modified":"2010-05-04T07:01:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T12:01:21","slug":"spielberg-saddling-up-for-war-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/04\/spielberg-saddling-up-for-war-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Spielberg Saddling Up For WAR HORSE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After much speculation, and a few<\/a> false<\/a> reports<\/a>, director Steven Spielberg has finally picked his next film, an adaptation of the children’s novel War Horse<\/em>. Written by Michael Morpurgo, War Horse<\/em> follows the adventures of Joey, a farm horse who is sold by his owner to the British army for service on World War One’s Western Front.<\/p>\n

Since the book is told in the first person and deals with Joey’s reactions to the horrors of war surrounding him and his longing to return home to his master, I have to admit a bit of disappointment over this choice, as it sounds like a variation on themes Spielberg already explored in Saving Private Ryan. Of course, a description of ET<\/strong> could be made to sound like a retread of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind<\/strong>, so who knows?<\/p>\n

Although the last Spielberg film we have seen was 2008’s Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull<\/strong>, Spielberg has been spending much of the intervening time working on the motion capture animated film The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn<\/strong> due for release next year.<\/p>\n

Spielberg had been circling a number of projects he has had in development, including his long-planned biopic of Abraham Lincoln, biopics of Martin Luther King Jr. and George Gershwin and adaptations of the books Flowers Of Algernon<\/em>, The 39 Clues<\/em> and author Michael Crichton’s last novel Pirate Latitudes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

War Horse<\/strong> is currently set to hit theaters on August 10, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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