MUMBAI: Steven Spielberg is all set to direct War Horse for DreamWorks Studios. The director will co-produce the film with Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Revel Guest.

Lee Hall and Richard Curtis who wrote the screenplay for Billy Elliot and Pirate Radio respectively are adapting the screenplay from the 1982 novel by Michael Morpurgo and the recent stage adaptation by Nick Stafford.

The epic is a tale of a friendship between a boy and his horse who separate 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 UK where it also played onstage at the National Theatre and New London Theatre.