Battleship: 4 minute featurette on “Super movies”, Stephen Hawking, casting Rihanna and why we should care about this “summer popcorn eating, fun film“...

I have to say, as much as I have been (and remain) sceptical on this whole premise and the over similarities between the look and sounds of this tech and the look and sounds of the Transformers films, I do like this video. I can see how Peter Berg was able to convince the suits at Hasbro and Universal that the Alien angle was the one to pursue with this Board game adaptation.

The football loving portions of the world will get this film about month ahead of its US debut as it attempts to avoid the dead space that will surround the European football tournament. Those who are more into “American Football” will get the film in May.  A little more background into Berg’s loving of Iron Ma in this video can be found in the latest issue of Empire...

“I like looking at guys like J.J Abrams or Jon Favreau, Gore Verbinski...They ll have movies with fascinating characters...I love what Favreau’s done with Iron Man: He’s got an actor like Robert Downey out of purgatory and put a character in these films who brings this complexity. And it’s struck me that the studios, thet don’t care. ... You can do as much artistry as you want; as long as they make money, they don’t interfere.”

Synopsis...

“Peter Berg (Hancock) produces and directs Battleship, an epic-scaled action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force. Inspired by 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 fiancée; Alexander Skarsgard 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.”

Don't worry, it is in English...