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Brooklyn Decker has been set by director Peter Berg to join the cast of Battleship, Universal’s tentpole film based on the Hasbro game. Taylor Kitsch stars, along with True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgard and Rihanna. The film starts production around Labor Day in Hawaii, and will be released May 18, 2012. Scripted by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber, Battleship’s a big scale action adventure that pits that crew of a battleship again alien invaders. Brian Koppelman and David Levien are working on the most recent draft. Decker plays the love interest of Kitsch’s naval officer character and was just in Hawaii filming the Denis Dugan-directed comedy Just Go With It for Sony Pictures. Decker was on the short list of actresses Michael Bay considered to replace Megan Fox in Transformers 3, a role that went to Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. Berg and his Film 44 partner Sarah Aubrey are producing with Hasbro’s Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir and Scott Stuber. Gersh and Marilyn Management made Decker’s deal.
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What the hell kind of cast is this?! Skarsgard and Kitsch- okay….but a swimsuit/fitness guru and an R&B singer???? First of all, what I hear is that Decker isn’t necessarily starring in that film alongside Kidman as much as she is just there for 5 min. Does Rihanna even have any acting skills to speak of? Sigh, I don’t even know why I even bothered to complain about the cast…my god the plot alone sounds like utter garbage!!!
Tight body, but can she act?
Wait. This is Battleship, Uni’s latest 200m writeoff. Doesn’t matter.
Rihanna and Brooklyn Decker in a movie named after a boardgame?!? Jesus tits, this movie is gonna suck hard.
Dammit… now who is gonna head up the cast of Rubik’s Cube: the Motion Picture? Or big screen Boggle?
OMG this movie is gonna BOMB SO BAD. A bunch of unknowns with an R&B singer who’s never acted in her life (aside from a cameo in a cheerleading flick, which doesn’t count)….in a movie that’s a rip off of Battle: Los Angeles (alien invasion by sea vs marines/navy)….and an over-inflated budget so the film is almost entirely CGI. Ha. Man this is gonna be hilarious. Peter Berg’s a smart guy, but I dunno WHAT he’s thinking.
I could make a more interesting movie out of my toenail clippings.
This has disaster written all over it. Universal’s track record stands somewhere between lame and abysmal, even with movies that are not such obviously greedy grabs for marketing tie-in toy money. Oink oink. Come up with some decent original ideas and market them properly for a change.
Cannot wait for Waterworld 2 starring Brooklyn Decker and Rihanna
I wonder how real actresses feel about this.
your assuming any real actresses would want to be in this film
How many more Hasbro games are going to be made?
Feel bad for Kitsch – great actor surrounded by Decker and Rhianna? Versus aliens? Yikes.
That is awesome. I’m assuming Brooklyn Decker and Rhianna are playing girls in the Navy. That’s pretty accurate. I mean, most women in the military look like those two.
Don’t know what you’re smoking, but Brooklyn Decker is pretty fucking hot, despite her acting ability. That certainly isn’t the greatest picture of her by a long shot.
*Whoosh* that’s the sonic boom of irony going right over your head.
This will be the film that sinks Universal. I’m sorry, but a 200 million dollar budget for an alien invasion film blended with a board game from the 80s? Yikes. Even better that its written by the scribes of the god-awful Whiteout which WB had in the can for 2+ years.
What in the world does the plot of the film have to do with “sinking” someone’s battleship by calling out random co-ordinates?
Seriously! WTF is wrong with these studios and their decisions?
This sounds more like a Mockbuster film being made by Asylum ent.
I guess with this cast they only want teens to come. Not a single person in this cast interests an adult over the age of 30. Who are they?..Is what comes to mid. I can’t say ” Oh I loved them in….” Love Peter Berg but I need real actors, not tv boys, a pop star and a swimsuit model.
I’m sorry. Is Peter Berg actually auditioning these folks? A pop star and a Sports Illustrated model are your (likely) female leads? With all of the trained actresses out there? Title this: Submarine.
has bro? you MY bro.
the soulless grind the soulless for more blank pg-13 carnage. can’t they just hire robots for this futility?
This is going to be the movie that finally sinks branded properties of all stripes. Now I used to play battleship when I was kid. Loved it. Probably even more so than Monopoly. Loved it because I was a participant in the proceedings. But I’ll be damned to plunk down 15 friggin 3D dollars to see a beloved past time of mine turned into film about a submarine battling Aliens starring Rihanna. Just think about that for one fleeting moment… Yeah! Rihanna!
What the hell is Universal thinking?
Oh please let this be the movie that sinks branded properties!
I am so sick of this moronic rubbish that they pump out, and the morons who go to watch it like sheep that are TOLD what to like.
The scripts are written by anybody except writers, the stars are not actors/actresses, and the Directors don’t seem to know a thing about directing.
They produce this shit as cheaply as possible, and everyone hates it, yet people still buy tickets. I’m hoping that not a single person goes to watch this film.
this movie is going to sink Universal and those mindless execs over there. good riddance dummies. clean house across the board, starting at the very top…
The crew of a battleship against alien invaders? – What does that have to do with the Hasbro game? Did they really need to buy the rights of the game for that? What an incredible waste of acquisition money.
Exactly — WTF is up with the aliens? This sounds worse than any parody of Hollywood I can think of. Vinny Chase in a Scorsese film is more believable. Besides having nothing to do with the game, it was totally unnecessary. There have been a fair share of awesome movies about ship warfare so it was incredibly fertile territory before they went all Men in Black on it. It sounds like Universal’s grand plan to rip-off Disney’s strategy of re-monetizing non-film brands is seriously DOA.
I would just like to point out that there’s a movie coming out based on the board game, Battleship. And there’s aliens. From the guys who wrote “The Girlfriend Experience”. Starring Rihanna.
This is a real movie, right? Not one of those movies they’re always talking about on Entourage?
Wow… when is this production actually going to cast some real talent to pull in the money??? No bankable stars. No really interesting casting choies. A very very high budget. A pretty pathetic premise for a movie. Oh and a director that is either hit or miss.
I really can’t wait to see this when it comes out!!! (sarcasm)
we need more models in film
I just watched “Magic 8 ball-the Movie” and it said this will bomb. Now if they had only green lighted “Play-doh 3d”!
G – Miss. PG – Miss. PG13 – Miss. R- Miss. You sunk my studio!
Rihanna and an SI swimsuit model starring in a board game adaptation about saving the world from aliens, smells like oscar to me