Exclusive: Curtis "excited" by Spielberg collaboration

Richard Curtis has revealed that he is enjoying a "brilliant" and "exciting" collaboration with Steven Spielberg on War Horse.

Curtis, whose movie work includes Notting Hill and Love Actually, is working on the screenplay for Spielberg's next directorial project, an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's World War I novel and its subsequent stage spinoff.

He told DS: "When you're a writer one of the problems is getting locked into doing similar things. At the moment I'm not, I'm just doing War Horse with Steven Spielberg, which is very unlike anything I've ever done before. It's fun to be adventurous."

Describing his working relationship with Spielberg, Curtis added: "I'm having a lot of fun with [it] and Steven Spielberg is absolutely brilliant. What's happening now is he's taking my script and then saying, 'Oh no, we don't need those two pages of boring dialogue because I can do this one brilliant visual thing that does everything'. That's very exciting to watch."

A Curtis-penned episode of Doctor Who, 'Vincent And The Doctor', will air on BBC One on Saturday.

> Click here to read our Doctor Who interview with Richard Curtis