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'Battleship' Director Talks Adapting Board Game to Film

The prospect of taking classic board game Battleship, a guessing game with no real story, and turning it into a big-budget summer film for Universal and Hasbro Studios — with clear hopes of it becoming a blockbuster franchise like Hasbro's massively successful "Transformers" — is no easy challenge, but it's one that director Peter Berg was up for.Berg, reuniting in the film with "Friday Night Lights" TV star Taylor Kitsch, talked to SPACE.com's sister site Newsarama about converting skeptics, working with novice actors like pop megastar Rihanna and the real-world science that went into his film of nautical alien invasion, which is in theaters this Friday.Newsarama : Peter, was it a daunting proposition when you were originally faced with the task of turning a board game like Battleship into a movie — a board game that doesn't even really have a plot?Peter Berg : Any time you set out to make a movie, or television show, or documentary, it's always a daunting proposition, and every proje...

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