After humans send a message to a distant, habitable planet, an alien armada responds by landing off the coast of Hawaii during a RIMPAC international naval exercise.
: Directed by Peter Berg, the film features massive CGI-driven naval battles and alien technology that are visually coherent and impressive. Battleship -2012-2012
Battleship was an extraordinarily expensive production, with a budget estimated between $209 million and $220 million. To put this in perspective, the film needed to be a colossal hit to break even. Analysts estimated it required an opening weekend of over $50 million and global ticket sales of around $600 million just to cover its production and marketing costs. After humans send a message to a distant,
NASA, using a deep-space communication array on Hawaii, has been sending signals to a planet in the Gliese 581 system. The aliens respond by sending five warships to Earth. They crash into the Pacific near Hong Kong and then head for Hawaii. To put this in perspective, the film needed
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To understand Battleship , you must first understand its source material. Hasbro, following the massive success of Transformers (2007), looked at its library of board games. Monopoly was in development hell. Candy Land was considered too saccharine. Then someone looked at Battleship —the two-player guessing game of coordinates (B-4, you sunk my destroyer!).
After the modern Arleigh Burke-class destroyers USS John Paul Jones and USS Sampson are sunk by alien projectiles, the surviving crew—led by Hopper and a group of scrappy veterans—must find a way to fight back. Their solution? Reactivate the Missouri , a decommissioned museum ship moored at Pearl Harbor.