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Come for the aliens and stay for the naval warfare, and you’ll wind up raving about the patriotic salutes. Peter Berg’s ‘Battleship’ may be based on a board game, but it ultimately defies anything you’re expecting — in the …
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They Are Making Battleship Into a Movie. No Seriously, They Are Making Battleship Into a Movie.
It says so right here in Variety. What’s more, the movie based on the naval-combat board game has an honest-to-God good director attached, Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights). (Taylor Kitsch is in it! Riggins!)
OK, I had a snarky post all ready to go. (Imagining the tearful romantic scene before the climactic battle: “You sank… my …
