Steven Spielberg has finally chosen his next pic to direct - the World War I epic War Horse reports The Wrap.
Studio spokesman Marvin Levy confirmed the news and the studio has already set an August 10th 2011 release date for the project based on Michael Morpurgo's bestselling 1982 novel.
Lee Hall (Billy Elliot, The Wind in the Willows) and Richard Curtis adapt the screenplay about the friendship between a boy and his horse, who become separated but continue to be intertwined as they try to survive the horrors of the war
Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Revel Guest are producing the pic.
The animal tale has also been adapted for the stage
The film will see theaters before Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn" which hits December 23rd 2011.
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