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By Robbie Graham
Upcoming board game adaptation promises “good old fashioned city destruction from flaming projectiles, alien ships and artificially induced earthquakes.”
Footage from Universal’s Battleship was previewed recently for a small gathering of journalists in Santa Monica, California. Among those present were ComingSoon.net's Scott Huver and Silas Lesnick. Here is some choice info from their interview with the movie’s director, Peter Berg...
Of Battleship’s inspiration / origin, Berg says:
"We were looking for a title and looking for something to do... 'Transformers' had come out and I was a huge fan of it, and I was starting to think about other brands and I was just thinking about 'Battleship,' as the son of a World War II historian and a naval fanatic - my father was all about ships and all about World War II battles... So, I went and talked to the guys at Hasbro. I said, 'I want to do a film about naval warfare, the modern navy.' They said, 'What's the story?' I said, 'I'm not sure what the story is, but I'll figure one out. But I'm your guy.' We were pitching it, for some reason they were like, 'Okay, you're our guy.' I was maybe the ONLY guy pitching it, or maybe the loudest guy, but I got it and started to kind of come up with a way of bringing in alien component to the film that I thought was credible."
Berg says that Universal wanted him to go into production as soon as possible..... continues
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