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Since it was announced that Hasbro was turning the board game “Battleship” into a movie, many people have voiced skepticism, especially after the company also announced plans for games like Candyland. Now, director Peter Berg (The Kingdom) sat down with ign.com to give an update of the film. Here is an excerpt:

“One of the fun things about doing Battleship has been dealing with the inherent skepticism,” explains the filmmaker. “‘I don’t understand; how are you going to make the game a movie? Is Stephen Colbert going to be playing a white peg? And who’s the red peg?’ The reality is if you come into this room — this is a key set in the film — you put this screen on, it’s very easy to imagine this as a much more sophisticated Battleshipscreen from the board game. In other words, what they’re doing with this screen is basically identifying threats or identifying objects, whether those be in the air, on the sea, or underwater. They have ways of identifying them that are much more complicated than ‘B16,’ but it’s basically a version of identifying them much the way you would locate your enemy in the game. We hope to do this very intelligently and very deftly so that it feels seamless and not so transparent. Basically, the fundamental four principles of the game are very easy to expand in a really interesting, bad ass, cool, unique, intelligent way when you see how these guys do what they do in here. You’re identifying, determining something to be a threat, and you’re killing — just like you do in the game. And that’s what we hope to accomplish here in a whole new and unique way.”

You can read the rest of the interview here: http://movies.ign.com/articles/105/1050815p1.html.

Lukas Eggen