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The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
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The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
(stylised on-screen as simply
The Water Horse
) is a 2007 American-British
family
fantasy
drama film
directed by
Jay Russell
. The screenplay, written by
Robert Nelson Jacobs
, is an adaptation of
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. This was the last film done by
Revolution Studios
before their film division was shut down.
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