I’ve been wondering for a while how they were going to make a movie out of the board game Battleship, without the link to the game seemingly utterly random (maybe you could have blind pilots randomly dropping bombs in the hope it’ll hit a ship). Well it now appears that the direction director Peter Berg and his team are taking it, is more intergalactic that board game based.
Latino Review reports that the bad guys in the movie won’t be Nazis, Russians or indeed anything Earth-based, and that instead it’ll feature an international five-ship fleet going up against aliens.
Hmm, I think we’re back to the link to the board game seeming utterly random. Production of the film is due to start in the spring, with a release planned for August 2011. Now we’re not saying it won’t be a decent blockbuster movie, but unless they’re stupid aliens who just fire at things randomly in the hope it’ll sink a destroyer, this isn’t going to be a movie of the game.