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The Water Horse

The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
The Water Horse Poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Jay Russell
Produced by Jay Russell
Douglas Rae
Robert Bernstein
Barrie M. Osborne
Screenplay by Robert Nelson Jacobs
Based on The Water Horse
by Dick King-Smith
Starring Emily Watson
Alex Etel
Ben Chaplin
David Morrissey
Brian Cox
Music by James Newton Howard
Cinematography Oliver Stapleton
Edited by Mark Warner
Production
company
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • December 25, 2007 (2007-12-25) (United States)
  • February 8, 2008 (2008-02-08) (United Kingdom)
Running time
111 minutes
Country United States
United Kingdom
New Zealand
Language English
Budget $40 million
Box office $103.1 million

The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (stylised on-screen as simply The Water Horse) is a 2007 family fantasy drama film directed by Jay Russell and written by Robert Nelson Jacobs, based on Dick King-Smith's children's novel The Water Horse. It stars Alex Etel as a young boy who discovers a mysterious egg and cares for what hatches out of it: a "water horse" (loosely based on the Celtic water horse) which later becomes the fabled Loch Ness Monster. The film also stars Emily Watson, Ben Chaplin and David Morrissey. The film was produced by Revolution Studios and Walden Media, in collaboration with Beacon Pictures, and was distributed by Columbia Pictures. Visual effects, which included the computer-generated imagery of the water horse (named "Crusoe" by Etel's character) were completed by the New Zealand-based companies Weta Digital and Weta Workshop—visual effects companies who worked with Walden Media before on the productions of The Chronicles of Narnia films.The Water Horse was released in the United States on December 25, 2007 and in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2008.


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