The event motion picture is based on the Hasbro 'strategy' board game "Battleship".
"Battleship" is produced and directed by Peter Berg, from a screenplay by Jon and Erich Hoeber, starring Taylor Kitsch ("John Carter") as commander 'Alex Hopper' who leads a fleet of naval ships against an 'alien' armada :
"...in the Hawaiian Islands, an international naval fleet at Pearl Harbor engage in an intense battle against the alien race 'The Regents', on a mission to planet earth to build a power source in the ocean..."
"...in the Hawaiian Islands, an international naval fleet at Pearl Harbor engage in an intense battle against the alien race 'The Regents', on a mission to planet earth to build a power source in the ocean..."
Cast also includes Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Rihanna and Liam Neeson.
The original "Battleship" game, created by Clifford Von Wickler in the early 1900's, was acquired by the Milton Bradley Company in 1943, then released as the pad-and-pencil game "Broadsides, the Game of Naval Strategy".