Award-winning director Steven Spielberg and the cast of War Horse, including Emily Watson, Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Hiddleston, have captured our hearts as they took time out from the glitz and glamour of the film’s London premiere to commemorate forgotten war horses.
The stellar crew decorated our little paper horses with saddles, manes and cheeky smiles. These bedecked horses will go up for everyone to see, on the Remembrance Wall in the War Horse: Fact & Fiction exhibition at the National Army Museum this Friday (13 January).
Here’s a selection of our favourites! (Click on an image to view in slideshow mode.)
Steven Spielberg’s horse
Steven Spielberg adds his name to exhibition’s Remembrance Wall.
Joey
Michael Morpurgo picks up his pen again to bring ‘Joey’ to life!
Topthorn
A saddled ‘Topthorn’ from the hand of actor, Benedict Cumberbatch, is ready to ride again and this time, perhaps not let ‘Joey’ win!
Jeremy Irvine’s horse
Jeremy Irvine finds inspiration from ‘Joey’, as he decorates his horse with white markings on his nose and feet!
Joey
Tom Hiddleston, channels the artistic skills of his character, Captain Nicholls, to recreate ‘Joey’.
Emily Watson’s horse
Emily Watson’s cheery horsey leaves us all smiling!
13 Comments
Have just read the kindle box and i must say i had a lump in my throat for nearly every chapter. To read an account of the Great War, through the eyes of the HORSE is just a master stroke. If the film is as moving as the book, Mr Spielberg has yet again a chance of a major classic.
Oh my, how sweet are these? Made me smile – a lot
Dear Benedict Cumberbatch
can’t love you & your horse more!!!
It’s great.
Very adorable. A lovely and sweet idea…
Dear Benedict Cumberbatch,
You have worse handwriting than I do. Congratulations on achieving such a seemingly impossible feat.
No but seriously, what does that even say?
I just saw it. I love the third one!
@Aaron, it says, “Hi I’m Topthorn. I’m Joey’s friend and I’m really a lot faster. But I let him win! JUST JOKING. PS- Read his book!! It’s great.
Dear Mr Cumberbatch,
After 10 minutes using all my profuse decoding skills I finally managed to understand what you wrote on Topthorn. Oh dear XD it made me laugh. All the messages were so cute but Benedict, your’s was my favourite.
Well, now we know that Benedict had not been so good lawyer as a doctor, for that of writing encrypted. Maybe wrote on captcha?
What the heck is Benedict writing? He’s worse than my doctor.
Thank you, Mr. Hiddlestone, for the compliment on my drawing in the film :0)
My father Victor spent WW1 as a trooper in the Worcestershire yeomanry. He spent three months in Gallipoli before getting typhoid fever, then came back and joined his regiment the Queens Own Worcestershire Hussars to free Palestine from the Ottoman rule, riding 3years thro Gaza, Jerusalem Jericho Jordan valley and mountains to Damascus. His war diary of 240 pages has been edited and photos and paintings added by me and published as Mountains of Moab.£20 p&p from Godrich 4 Court Green Minehead TA245TS.This campaign was victorious!