'Battleship' Director Peter Berg Always Aspired To Produce A Navy Movie

It's type of hard to determine which Peter Berg's position is. The identical guy who directed the first superhero flick "Hancock" also gave us the wonderful teen TV drama and movie "Friday Evening Lights." More youthful crowd gave us serious thrillers like "The Dominion.Inch His latest film "Battleship" -- a blockbuster adaptation in the classic game -- also seems at first to depart left area, but Berg guaranteed MTV News that his participation inside the veritable "Transformers"-meets-"Armageddon" blockbuster is really sensible. Calculates this type of film is really a cause close to his heart for a while now. Even though Berg has directed numerous movies, he's always aspired to complete one occur the ocean, and "Battleship" gave him the opportunity to make that happen. "I've been trying to carry out a movie occur water for just about any very very long time. My dad will be a naval historian, he familiar with drag me to every Navy museum in the world, anywhere we are capable of going,Inch Berg told MTV News at Toy Fair. "I've always aspired to carry out a movie in regards to the Navy." Nevertheless it was additionally to that particular. Berg mentioned younger crowd offers always aspired to carry out a large movie, something a good deal bigger than "Hancock." Berg felt it had been his time to execute a summer season blockbuster, which "Battleship" was the film to make it happen with. "I call these movies, they're like kind of 'super' movies now and so they head out all over the world. Movies like 'Transformers,' 'G.I. Joe,' 'Battleship' these films have such large achieve. Personally it made sense," Berg mentioned. "How you can really see all this kind of mix-marketing and discover while using Hasbro machine kicking in, it's kind of awesome." Is "Battleship" a movie you're searching toward? Reveal inside the comments section below or on Twitter!