At last, we get to see a trailer for Steven Spielberg’s War Horse!

Based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, the movie follows Albert and his beloved horse, Joey who is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War I. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend. It certainly looks like what we’ve come to expect from a big sweeping Spielberg film, complete with beautiful cinematography from frequent Speilberg collaborator Janusz Kaminski.

The screenplay was written by Richard Curtis (Love,Actually) and Lee Hall (Billy Elliott), so I’m hazarding a guess here, but I imagine the movie will bring more than one tear to the eye, especially when you add in that typically grand score by John Williams.

The film stars Emily Watson, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Thewlis, Tom Hiddleston, Toby Kebell and a whole host of great Brit character actors including Geoff Bell and Peter Mullan. Albert is played by newcomer Jeremy Irvine.

War Horse sprints into theaters in the US on 28 December 2011 (in time for awards season) and the UK on 13 January 2012.