66: Watership Down (1978) Section 8: The Rat-attack and the Stranger Scripted by Newell Fisher, with script assistance by John Ruths This section covers from 21 minutes 20 to 26 minutes 10 and the equivalent Chapters from the book are Chapters 10-12 In the book there is a long section of the journey to WD that we only hear about in passing. This is the part from the departure from the Warren of the Snares to the arrival at the foot of WD. Part of the description of that journey, at the start of Chapter 18. Watership Down, describes how they were attacked by rats in an isolated barn near Ecchinswell. That episode is transplanted to earlier in the plot in the film and seems to occupy the part of their journey that, in the book, is taken up with the terrible overnight journey over Newtown Common. And instead of a barn, it takes p ...