DreamWorks Studios has acquired film rights to Michael Morpurgo's 1982 novel "
War Horse." Lee Hall ("Billy Elliot") has been hired to write the screenplay adaptation.
The book tells the epic tale of a friendship between a boy and his horse, who become separated but continue to be intertwined as they try to survive the horrors of World War I. "Horse" was a runner-up for the Whitbread Award in the U.K.