‘Battleship’ Enemy Revealed and It’s Ridiculous

Published by Jeff Leins on: November 8th, 2009

In September, Peter Berg signed to direct Battleship, a board game adaptation and live-action naval adventure at Universal Pictures.  The fast-tracked feature has already been scheduled for summer 2011.

At the time, we didn’t know what the “contemporary story” would be other than five international ships set out to sea to battle an unknown force.  The potential for a Hunt for Red October style film was there, which made this a tad more intriguing than say… the Monopoly or Candy Land movies.

Spoilers ahead: A tipster for Latino Review revealed who the opponent will be and it’s not Somali pirates.  The fleet will battle aliens…  That’s right, aliens.  Isn’t that an entirely different game?

Underwater aliens?  Outer space submarines?  It sounds too crazy, but at the same time it almost sounds just ridiculous enough to be true.  Sources close to the production confirmed this as a major spoiler.

Besides, we’re due for an alien-based story if you don’t count “V,” District 9, Transformers 2, The Fourth Kind, Dragonball Evolution, Monsters vs. Aliens, Shorts, Aliens in the Attic, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Outlander, Avatar, Predators, Day the Earth Stood Still, Planet 51, and everyone’s personal favorite Meet Dave.  Apparently it was enough for Berg to leave his interstellar Dune remake though.

The Colbert Report is going to have a field day with this.