Back حصان الماء Arabic حصان الماء ARZ Su atı: Dərinlərin əfsanəsi (film, 2007) AZ The Water Horse CY Mein Freund, der Wasserdrache German The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep Spanish اسب آبی: حماسه اعماق FA Le Dragon des mers : La Dernière Légende French סוס המים HE The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep ID

The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep

"The Water Horse" redirects here. For other uses, see Water horse.

The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJay Russell
Screenplay byRobert Nelson Jacobs
Based onThe Water Horse
by Dick King-Smith
Produced byJay Russell
Douglas Rae
Robert Bernstein
Barrie M. Osborne
StarringEmily Watson
Alex Etel
Ben Chaplin
David Morrissey
Brian Cox
CinematographyOliver Stapleton
Edited byMark Warner
Music byJames Newton Howard
Production
companies
Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing
Release dates
  • 25 December 2007 (2007-12-25) (United States)
  • 8 February 2008 (2008-02-08) (United Kingdom)
Running time
112 minutes[1]
CountriesUnited States
United Kingdom
New Zealand
LanguageEnglish
Budget$40 million[2]
Box office$104 million[3]

The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (stylised on-screen as simply The Water Horse) is a 2007 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 were completed by the New Zealand-based companies Weta Digital and Weta Workshop.[4][5] The Water Horse was released in the United States on 25 December 2007 and in the United Kingdom on 8 February 2008.[6]

  1. ^ "The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
  2. ^ "Budget of The Water Horse". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
  3. ^ https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=waterhorse.htm | title = The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
  4. ^ "Walden Mounts Water Horse". SciFiWire. Archived from the original on 30 December 2007. Retrieved 30 December 2007.
  5. ^ "Narnia Studio Plans New Fantasy Film". IGN. 7 February 2006.
  6. ^ "The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep". ComingSoon.net. 19 December 2007. Retrieved 30 December 2007.