Peter Berg to direct Battleships - Hit or Miss?

Peter Berg is in talks to direct a big-screen version of the Hasbro board game, Battleships, for Universal.

While plot details are not currently forthcoming, the studio is looking to make an epic naval action adventure.

Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir are producing for Hasbro. Dylan Clark and Anikah McLaren are overseeing for the studio.

Actor turned filmmaker Berg has directed Very Bad Things, The Rundown, Friday Night Light, The Kingdom and Hancock.

The script is being written by the Hoeber brothers who wrote "Whiteout," the upcoming Kate Beckinsale thriller based on the comic book, and penned Summit's comic-book adaptation "Red," which has Bruce Willis is in talks to star.

Universal has several board game titles in development as part of its six-year deal with Hasbro. "Ouija Board" is being produced by Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes shingle, "Candy Land" has Kevin Lima attached to direct with Etan Cohen writing the script, and Ridley Scott is developing a project based on "Monopoly."

Source: THR

I've included the bit from Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey as I just love Death's reaction to playing Battleships.

Discuss in the forum

HOME

POLL: What Will Smith film is your favourite?

The Fresh Prince, one time partner to Jazzy Jeff, owner of a fine pair of ears, seems to be a really nice bloke and a major movie star. He has starred in many a movie - some good, some not so good - yet which one is your favourite?

Leave a comment on this post below.

HOME

The Guardians most ridiculous plots of the year - Spoilers ahoy!

1. The Dark Knight - The Joker's criminal genius
Wait, so the Joker really orchestrated that big truck chase just so that he could get caught and go to prison, then he could kidnap that guard and grab his phone to make the call to set off the bomb he'd previously sewn inside the henchman in the next cell? That would kill the guy who stole the mobsters' money, thus enabling him to … er, what? Heath Ledger's Joker may have been a psychopath, but he had a nerdish capacity for forward planning.

2. Sex And The City - has Big ever used a phone?
OMG Carrie's getting married! Can you believe all the dresses? Can you also believe that Big tries to call her on the day, but some little scamp has run off with her phone? Couldn't he just call Miranda or someone? No, because despite having known them all for 10 years he doesn't have their numbers. Nor is he capable of just getting out of the car and walking in.

3. Iron Man - the cunning getaway
Ha ha! We have kidnapped imperialist weapons dealer Tony Stark. Now let's put him in a cell and force him to build us a missile. We won't need to put guards in with him because we've got these fiendish CCTV cameras. True, it's still possible for him to hide round the corner, but what can go wrong? We'll also overlook those working drawings. Wait a minute! That's not a missile, it's a robo-destruction suit. And now he's in it, killing us all! D'oh!

4. Hancock - immortal and invisible?
What? So there's this one guy on the planet who's been alive, like, forever, and can fly, stop bullets, leap tall buildings, etc, and nobody is the slightest bit curious as to who the hell he is and where he came from? What was he doing during, say, the second world war?

5. Wanted - The Loom of Fate
OK, we can swallow James McAvoy as an action hero. And we'll believe that there's a secret league of assassins who can bend bullets round corners. Even that they were descended from a guild of weavers. But hang on, the Loom of Fate? A mystical apparatus whose woven product has the future of mankind encrypted in its fibres?

6. Indiana Jones - Shia of the Apes
Luckily we've overpowered these Nazis but now they're chasing us down this convenient set of parallel tracks someone has cut through the jungle! Phew, none of us got hurt but where's Shia LaBeouf gone? Thank God (or Spielberg): he's turned into Tarzan. Here he comes swinging through the trees on vines, with a troupe of monkeys.

7. Mamma Mia! - the paternity issue
Which one of these three men could be Sophie's father? If only there was some reliable, scientific way of finding out. She can't get a DNA test, of course, because Abba never wrote a song about that.

8. Man On Wire - don't look down!
A man breaks into the World Trade Centre and walks a tightrope between the towers. Yeah, right.

Source: The Guardian

Anyone got any more?
Home / Forum / Guestbook

Hancock sequel could be in the pipeline says Will Smith

Will Smith has told JoBlo that we'll be seeing a sequel to his superhero movie, Hancock.

When we asked Will if he'd ever be up for playing another superhero he replied that there were a lot of unexplored characters in the HANCOCK universe that would be ripe for a sequel and confirmed that we'll definitely see the rumored HANCOCK 2 in a few years.

How could they improve on the poorly received first one (although it did make a ton of money). First half was good, last half not so good and what could the other characters be? We learnt in the first one that Hancock and his Missus were the last of their kind so where do they go from there?

Home / Forum / Guestbook

Hancock - Deleted scene that shows why Superman and Lois would never have a baby. Brodie in Mallrats was right!

I finally got to watch Hancock the other night and to be honest I enjoyed it. It wasn't anything brilliant but it made me chuckle and the first half was better than the last half. Will Smith was pretty good, but I get the feeling he felt stuck in his own image. I still couldn't figure out why Charlize Theron would stay with a mortal human and child knowing they would grow old and die, also why didn't she become a crime fighting hero as well? You could definitely tell that it had gone through a number of rewrites and it was sad to think about how great it could have been.

Here is the scene that was mentioned a while ago about Hancock getting busy with a lady and showing that everything about being superhuman is risky. Remember the original title for the screenplay was Tonight, He Comes.

As Brodie (Jason Lee) said in Mallrats, "It's impossible, Lois could never have Superman's baby. Do you think her fallopian tubes could handle the sperm? I guarantee you he blows a load like a shotgun right through her back. What about her womb? Do you think it's strong enough to carry his child?"

io9 had the clip and also have a list of Superheroes who cannot have sex.

Should the scene have been kept in the film? What are your views on Hancock?
Home / Forum / Guestbook

Weekend US Box Office

Here is what's what over in the States. Cheers to Matt. First figure is this weekends take and the second is the gross take. Indy 4 has done incredibly well.

1. Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) $35.9M $35.9M
2 Hancock (2008) $33M $165M
3 Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) $20.6M $20.6M
4 WALL·E (2008) $18.5M $163M
5 Wanted (2008) $11.6M $112M
6 Get Smart (2008) $7.11M $111M
7 Meet Dave (2008) $5.3M $5.3M
8 Kung Fu Panda (2008) $4.3M $202M
9 Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) $2.36M $11M
10 Indiana Jones...Crystal Skull (2008) $2.25M $310M

U.S. Weekend Box Office

1. Hancock - $66 million weekend, $107 million since Wednesday - Still not seen it, don't really want to see it. Think they should have stayed with the original title, "Tonight, He Comes"
2. WALL-E - $33.4 million
3. Wanted - $20.6 million - Not too shabby for a movie based on an indie comic book.
4. Get Smart - $11.1 million
5. Kung Fu Panda - $7.5 million

When I say Han you say....

The new Will Smith movie, Hancock, is opening soon. I was sent this photo of them getting ready for it in Leicester Square. Cheers Andy for passing it on.