| The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Jay Russell |
| Screenplay by | Robert Nelson Jacobs |
| Based on | The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith |
| Produced by | Jay Russell Douglas Rae Robert Bernstein Barrie M. Osborne |
| Starring | Emily Watson Alex Etel Ben Chaplin David Morrissey Brian Cox |
| Cinematography | Oliver Stapleton |
| Edited by | Mark Warner |
| Music by | James Newton Howard |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Releasing |
Release dates |
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Running time | 112 minutes[1] |
| Countries | United States Scotland New Zealand |
| Language | English |
| 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 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]
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