Battleship

JP Liz V1

http://movies.about.com/b/2010/07/28/rihanna-joins-battleship.htm

Rihanna's ready to become the latest pop star to try her hand at acting. The Grammy Award-winning singer has been cast in Universal Pictures' Battleship, an sci-fi action drama based on the popular Hasbro board game.

Taylor Kitsch (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and Alexander Skarsgard (True Blood) star in Battleship, a project that sounds like it'll just barely be based on the game that inspired it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe Hasbro's Battleship had anything to do with the Navy fighing off an invasion by aliens which is what the film's all about.

Peter Berg (Hancock) is directing from a screenplay by Jon and Erich Hoeber. Filming's expected to begin soon with Universal eyeing a May 25, 2012 release.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440129/

A film based on a board game

Will it sunk????????

humanji

I don't remember aliens in the board game. It's odd, this is kind of an original idea and they're going out of their way to associate with something else.

AnonoBoy

Why bother buy the rights to the boardgame for something like this?

Surely a film set on a battleship isn't something that need pay royalties to Milton Bradley.

Richard Dower

You know what....with peter berg, it might be good!...i've not seen a movie that has ships doing battle at sea, can anyone remember a modern film of the genre?

You'll see WWII movies, but nothing in recent memory...it's not been done as far as i can tell, Berg says in an interview that the premse wil be Distrcit 9 like, the aliens use ships that glide over the water and such, and a naval battle ensues.

If it's done right, it could be good!

PhiloCypher

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Why bother buy the rights to the boardgame for something like this?

Surely a film set on a battleship isn't something that need pay royalties to Milton Bradley.

Completely agree whats the point, its not like theres any big brand recognition there .

Richard Dower

$200 million dollar budget!!!!!!!! :eek:

http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=18653

Written by the brother writing team Jon and Erich Hoeber (Whiteout), the story unfolds as “a massive Naval adventure across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force.” The superior force are aliens from another planet known as The Regents. They come from a world similar to ours, and aren’t actually looking to take over humanity or the planet Earth. Instead, they’re on a mission to build a power source in the ocean, which is where they come in contact with a navy fleet. The film will also show us both sides of the story—from the aliens’ perspective, as well as the humans. The alien ships do fly to Earth, as well as through the atmosphere, but they lose that capability once they land. They’re also not busting out any lasers or fantastical alien weaponry—their weapons will be ballistics-based just like ours.

Read more: Budgets: Battleship Costing Over $200 Million? Scott Pilgrim Made for $60-$90 Million? | /Film http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/08/13/budgets-battleship-costing-over-200-million-scott-pilgrim-made-for-60-90-million/#ixzz0x42DXqmz

JP Liz V1

http://screenrant.com/battleship-movie-brooklyn-decker-sandy-74196/

Mrs Andy Roddick joins

Richard Dower

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1647050/20100902/rihanna.jhtml

Skerries

Richard Dower

^ please fix your post.

Skerries

i'd love to know how!
why do so many youtube embed codes not work?

JP Liz V1

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/09/07/liam-neeson-will-play-the-admiral-in-universals-%e2%80%98battleship%e2%80%99/

Liam Neeson will play Admiral Shane in Universal’s action-adventure movie Battleship

dreamers75

http://gizmodo.com/5825230/the-battleship-trailer-is-ridiculously-watchable

WTF is this movie about :pac:


/search works

Mickeroo

I'd forgotten about this, looks like they've gone with making it an alien invasion movie eh? Well it could be a lot of fun who knows, looks fairly generic from the trailer though. I guess calling it Battleship is just an excuse to throw recogniseable bankable name on it.

Phony Scott

Not entirely unlike the poster for Titanic methinks.





That plot summary sounds like what most people really wanted back 1997, 'Titanic' meets 'Starship Troopers'. Giant bugs sink ships! Yay!

Anyway here's the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwBVOznig5g

The film simply won't work unless someone screams at the top of their voice while shaking their fist: "YOU SUNK MY BATTLESHIP!!!"

johnny_ultimate

ITS NOT OUT FOR A YEAR HOLLYWOOD, WE DON'T NEED TRAILERS! GARRHH!

Looks like absolute drivel. They could have funded hundreds of decent movies with the money they're pouring into this nonsense :pac:

mike65

Just think with that money they could have remade the Sergei M. Eisenstein film of the same name! :eek:

Sad Professor

Berg’s films seem to be getting progressively worse. As are his influences. The Kingdom was clearly trying to be Michael Mann, where as this looks more like Michael Bay.

ReacherCreature

Skyline, Battle Los Angeles, now Battleship...anyone else seeing a sort of pattern emerge?

krudler

Sad Professor wrote: »

Berg’s films seem to be getting progressively worse. As are his influences. The Kingdom was clearly trying to be Michael Mann, where as this looks more like Michael Bay.

and to think this is the same guy who made the fantastic Friday Night Lights

Slydice

I had it in my head that rihanna was gonna be in this movie

given how low that had brought my expectations, this trailer ain't half bad

aidan_walsh

Looks like someone couldn't get the license to Transformers so tacked the story onto whatever they could.

Phony Scott

ReacherCreature wrote: »

Skyline, Battle Los Angeles, now Battleship...anyone else seeing a sort of pattern emerge?

Yes. 'Monopoly the movie' is sure to have robots in it. Cos robots have a monoploy on special effects...or something

Sad Professor

They are making a Monopoly movie as well?

aidan_walsh

Rumours anyway. Bear in mind same said rumours had Ridley Scott attached.

Mickeroo

Sad Professor wrote: »

They are making a Monopoly movie as well?

Yea, I thought Ridley Scott or someone was supposed to direct it...

johnny_ultimate

I'll be honest - I'd watch Monopoly the movie if the main character was a giant CGI thimble engaged in a property war with an anamorphic car.

mikhail

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I'll be honest - I'd watch Monopoly the movie if the main character was a giant CGI thimble engaged in a property war with an anamorphic car.

I don't know; it didn't save Superman Returns.

ReacherCreature

krudler wrote: »

and to think this is the same guy who made the fantastic Friday Night Lights

That's a serious comedown. The last fifteen seconds of that trailer were the best, looking at the CIWS Phalanx blazing out rounds was poetical.

On the topic of Friday Night Lights, that movie is terribly underrated and undiscovered by many IMO.

paddy kerins

Pretty funny: http://www.cracked.com/blog/novelization-trailer-movie-battleship/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fanpage&utm_campaign=new%2Barticle&wa_ibsrc=fanpage

scico rocks

Why wouldn't the spaceship thingys just fly off and destroy cities and stuff, instead of hanging around fighting battleships?

ReacherCreature

scico rocks wrote: »

Why wouldn't the spaceship thingys just fly off and destroy cities and stuff, instead of hanging around fighting battleships?

Apparently they want Earth's water source. It's their objective. Removing combined fleets would mean uninterrupted access. But then you've to contend with Air Forces and land units. Apparently this film is taking place on all three fronts, which already sounds like it's going to be overstretched.

aidan_walsh

The more I watch this trailer the more I want it to be an intelligent piss take of Micheal Bay movies more than someone wanting to be him.

I don't think that will be the case, but I choose to hope.

don ramo

i fancy a game of battleship now:D,

iMax

As much as I hate to say it, this is gonna be a huge summer hit. I'm just surprised Michael bay isn't doing it.

Best line in the movie:
Prepare to fire.
Sir, which weapons?
All of them.

Predictions:

Liam Neeson WILL say "they've sunk my (or a) battleship"

The spaceship will be cloaked & they'll have to fire on it in grid format.

stevenmu

Mixed feelings about this.

When I read the description I thought it could be fantastic. A war film set on modern day battleships with big set pieces done right could be epic. Aliens, meh, but they're described as having comparable technology, so it could still be great.

But then in the clip the alien 'battleship' jumps. It suddenly starts looking way too Bay-ish.

Hopefully they just picked some ridiculous looking bit for the ads and the rest of it is better.

mikhail

stevenmu wrote: »

When I read the description I thought it could be fantastic. A war film set on modern day battleships with big set pieces done right could be epic...

There are no modern-day battleships. The class is as obsolete as the galleon.

ReacherCreature

This film will likely have little to do, correctness-wise with history or modern day military as there's no Battleships in action any more. I expect this will be balls-to-the-walls action. Not that that's a bad thing sometimes mind you.

But I would have preferred large scale air-to-air, ship-to-ship and sub-to-sub battles than aliens.

Galvasean

Saw the traler today... was not expecting aliens to show up!

Mickeroo

New trailer for this out, shows a bit more of the aliens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YatZXieJsL4

Not sure what Neeson is doing in this, most likely for the dollas. Could be fun though who knows.

The alien armour looks exactly like Master Chief from Halo :eek:

Josey Wales

This second trailer has left me cold. I thought the first one was better. The first trailer also showed more of the link between this and the board game.

Mickeroo

Josey Wales wrote: »

This second trailer has left me cold. I thought the first one was better. The first trailer also showed more of the link between this and the board game.

TBH I really think the only link is that it involves the Navy. The boardgame is just a means of sticking a recognisable brand on an alien invasion movie so they can sell it.

ReacherCreature

Rihanna to get an Oscar nod.

Skerries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkZeUa53Jyg

iMax

Mickeroo wrote: »

TBH I really think the only link is that it involves the Navy. The boardgame is just a means of sticking a recognisable brand on an alien invasion movie so they can sell it.

They're stuck in the forcefield, it's obviously going to be a case of "playing the game - D3 - you've sunk my battleship"

I really shouldn't be, but I'm really looking forward to seeing this

constitutionus

jaysus bay got "transformers 4" out quickly !



TBH reminds me more of "robotix" than battleship, but ya know what ?

i reckon this'll be a great laugh.

nothing wrong in with a dumb action flick in the summer ala skyline and this doesnt seem to take itself too seriously.

the attack on the city in the trailer would seem to be the spur to get the fleet to engage proper so i reckon there not really spoiling much showing us that as its more abou moving the plot along than actually anything of real consequence to the main characters.

ive a soft spot for stuff like this so ill be checking it out. theres been a bit of a glut lately but there was a time when ya'd never get a decent alien invasion film. i think the last before transformers broke the scene was independence day or mars attacks so i dont mind the genre plodding along for a bit longer.

Mickeroo

Its directed by the guy who made Friday Night Lights, The Rundown(Welcome to the Jungle) and Hancock(flawed but I enjoyed it) which already shows he knows a bit more about character and story than Bay, I think this could be great fun

goose2005

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I'll be honest - I'd watch Monopoly the movie if the main character was a giant CGI thimble engaged in a property war with an anamorphic car.

I can't wait for "Chess: the Movie". Jake Gyllenhaal stars as an ordinary soldier, who, as he advances through the ranks of the military, becomes more convinced that he needs a sex change. He faces stiff opposition from the clergy, who travel around in a giant castle on wheels.

madrab

Love this line from the trailer
"From Hasbro, the company that brought you Transformers"

Like it has any relevance! :-)

Brendog

Looks absolutely terrible. Going to be a gigantic tongue-in-cheek massacre the likes of which hasn't been seen since Roger Moore's James Bond

goose2005

goose2005 wrote: »

I can't wait for "Chess: the Movie". Jake Gyllenhaal stars as an ordinary soldier, who, as he advances through the ranks of the military, becomes more convinced that he needs a sex change. He faces stiff opposition from the clergy, who travel around in a giant castle on wheels.

...And he can't take people head on, but only attack them from the side.