Why does battleship have aliens

But ultimately, they wanted a movie that allowed for lots of ship-on-ship combat action, and a certain amount of homage to the sort of war movies that used to be made in the s and s, which you don't see any more. The notion of putting aliens into Battleship was director Peter Berg's idea. They worked much more closely with the director than they usually do with movie assignments, and he threw out the concept of an alien-invasion movie right when the brothers joined the film as writers.

And the reason why this movie needed aliens? That's simple. Explains Jon:. In reality, there's very few people in the world who would be a fair match for the U. Navy at this point in a sea battle. So I think part of it wa just the idea of making a big summer movie, and part of it is just [asking], "Who could these guys credibly fight? Of course, you could have the Navy fight the Chinese, or Somalian pirates, or terrorists at sea, but then it becomes something more like Black Hawk Down on the water, which was never the goal.

In order to create a fun action movie with believable stakes, you need a threat that is huge "but not absolutely dominating," and that's where these aliens come in. The brothers actually got to see the Navy up close, going on board some of their ships and interviewing lots of sailors.

When aliens invade, you need to turn off your brain a bit. In real life, if aliens were advanced enough to travel all the way to Earth, they would kick our ass. The movie even acknowledge's this, by having a SETI employee discuss Stephen Hawking's theories that aliens who came to Earth would be hostile and overwhelming.

But in this case, the aliens are just a scouting party more on that below making them beatable. Jon Hoeber says there's never been an alien invasion movie that stood up to determined scrutiny.

Battleship Wiki Explore. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Alien Stingers. Edit source History Talk 0. Weapons and abilities [ ] The Stingers were advanced battleships that were capable of interstellar space travel but specifically designed to be used on water.

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The humans have, well, their battleship. While I haven't seen the movie, I'm going to assume that the humans prevail in the end — but only after much loss of life, the destruction of Hong Kong, and some gruff commands from Liam Neeson about firing on "B It got me thinking about other alien invasion movies: What do they want? What weapons do they have?

How do we defeat them? Here's just a handful of alien invasion movies. Note: Spoilers ahead!