“Battleship” the board game: You use pegs to attack enemy ships.
Battleship the film: You use P.E.G. missles to attack aliens.
Sense: This film looks to make little.
Yes folks, it’s here. The most anticipated trailer of the summer. The trailer for Battleship, based on the classic board game. Somehow, Liam Neeson got roped into this film, so maybe there is something awesome about it we don’t know about yet. But then I look at the rest of the cast which includes Rihanna and go back to doubting it.
In any case, here is the first trailer for the film which does include Brooklyn Decker in a bikini – so that’s something I suppose. We also get, in an attempt to somehow tie elements of the game to the movie, a brief glimpse of the P.E.G. Missles . . . I think I may end up passing on this and wait for the Connect Four movie.
Official Synopsis
Peter Berg (Hancock) produces and directs Battleship, an epic action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force. Based on Hasbro’s classic naval combat game, Battleship stars Taylor Kitsch as Lt. Alex Hopper, a Naval officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones; Brooklyn Decker as Sam Shane, a physical therapist and Hopper’s fiance; Alexander Skarsgaard as Hopper’s older brother, Stone, Commanding Officer of the USS Sampson; Rihanna as Petty Officer Raikes, Hopper’s crewmate and a weapons specialist on the USS John Paul Jones; and international superstar Liam Neeson as Hopper and Stone’s superior (and Sam’s father), Admiral Shane.
Opening May 2012