Pirates of the Caribbean, Transformers and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra certainly led the way in turning games, cartoons and rides into feature length films. Now Hollywood is all the flutter with turning various board games into feature length movies; From Ridley Scott's Monopoly to Candyland in 2013, it seems as though the rise of the board game movies is coming sooner than we think with the Peter Berg directed BATTLESHIP.
On the one hand this trailer looks so serious and and overly gritty that I'm ready to suspend belief and go along for the outlandish ride. However, the alien ships look like something out of the movie Skyline, which was one of the worst movies ever made! So needless to say I'm split. I'm fan of Peter Berg's filmography which includes Hancock, The Kingdom, and the wonderfully fun The Rundown. Being a student of the Michael Mann school of filmmaking, he definitely has a style that brings the action right into your face and keeps even the most mundane scenes paced very well. However, if future trailers show star Liam Neeson standing very stoically, putting down a phone a looking off to a cadet and delivering the lines; "They just sunk my Battleship". This movie will have been worth the $10 dollars I will most certainly end up paying.
The website for Battleship went up yesterday and teaser trailer is up today. The plot synopsis according to IMDB.com is as follows:
A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals.
The movies stars Taylor Kitsch, Liam Neeson, Alexander Skarsgard, and features the acting debut of Rhianna. I wonder if she'll do a song for the movie. Battleship hits theaters May 18th 2012.
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