This is not your Classic Boardgame Anymore,’Battleship’ finally has a trailer and Poster

Everyone has know for some time now that Hollywood has been struggling with original ideas and their best thought was to start making movies out of classic board games. Battleshit, I mean Battleship is Universal’s first attempt at bringing these board games to life.

Now many people will remember sitting on opposite sides of the board and trying to call out numbers hoping to hit the opponents ships. Once you sunk all of their ships you were a the winner. Pretty simple game unless your opponent is a cheater and keeps moving his ships around. So how do you make a movie out of a game like this??? Simple, just add an alien invasion out in the ocean and you have a Hollywood Blockbuster, but if that doesn’t work, lets throw in a cast that includes a pop singer making her big screen debut and has no acting history besides music videos. GENIUS!!!!!

Check out the trailer (provided to us by Yahoo) and see if you think this looks like a smart way to spend $200 million.

Here is the official synopsis for the film in case you didn’t catch on in the trailer:

Peter Berg (Hancock) produces and directs Battleship, an epic action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force. Based on Hasbro’s classic naval combat game, Battleship stars Taylor Kitsch as Lt. Alex Hopper, a Naval officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones; Brooklyn Decker as Sam Shane, a physical therapist and Hopper’s fiancee; Alexander Skarsgard as Hopper’s older brother, Stone, Commanding Officer of the USS Sampson; Rihanna as Petty Officer Raikes, Hopper’s crewmate and a weapons specialist on the USS John Paul Jones; and international superstar Liam Neeson as Hopper and Stone’s superior (and Sam’s father), Admiral Shane.

I will give them some credit, they did try and stay true to the game by making the alien ship fire “peg” like bullets into the ships and then the zoomed out view shows the ships how they would look on the actual board game, position wise. I understand Berg was given a very difficult task with this film but come on Hollywood! You pass on Ron Howard‘s The Dark Tower but you allow this!?!?!?! Give me a break!

The film is set to open or sink May 18, 2012.