Long before a single scene of Spielberg's film was shot, "War Horse" was a novel for young adults published in 1982. Michael Morpurgo intended it more as an anti-war statement.

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Based on the 1982 children’s novel by Michael Morpurgo, War Horse is an elegiac film that clocks in at two hours and 20 minutes, but I treasured every single second.Mr. Spielberg brings so much ...

DENVER (CBS4) - It is based on a novel for young adults, but is the Tony Award winning play "War Horse" really for children? CBS4 Critic at Large Greg Moody reported on the idea of when the show ...

War Horse No one who sees the National Theater of Great Britain's haunting stage version of Michael Morpurgo's children's novel about a 16-year-old farmboy who follows his beloved horse into war ...

In Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 children’s novel War Horse, Joey — a spirited horse drafted from an English farm to serve in World War I — narrates his own story.In War Horse, the 2007 London ...

Spielberg first heard about War Horse in the summer of 2009. That’s when his longtime producer Kathleen Kennedy mentioned the West End adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 novel, which ...