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Directed by Peter Berg

Produced by Peter BergBrian GoldnerDuncan HendersonBennett SchneirScott Stuber

Written by Jon HoeberErich Hoeber

Based on BattleshipbyHasbro

Starring Taylor KitschAlexander SkarsgrdRihannaBrooklyn DeckerLiam NeesonTadanobu Asano

Music by Steve Jablonsky[1]

Cinematography Tobias A. Schliessler

Editing by Colby Parker Jr.Billy RichPaul Rubell

Studio Battleship Delta ProductionsBluegrass FilmsFilm 44Hasbro StudiosPonysound

Distributed by Universal Pictures

Release date(s)April 3, 2012(Tokyo, Premiere)

April 11, 2012(United Kingdom)

May 18, 2012(United States)

Running time 131 minutes

Country United States

Language English

Budget $209 million

Box office $303,025,485

Battleship is a 2012 Americanmilitary science fictionwar filmloosely inspired by the classicboard game. The film

was directed byPeter Bergand released byUniversal Pictures. The film starsTaylor Kitsch,Liam Neeson,Alexander

Skarsgrd,Rihanna, John Tui,Brooklyn Decker, andTadanobu Asano.

PLOT

The film was originally planned to be released in 2011, but was rescheduled to April 11, 2012, in the United Kingdom

and May 18, 2012, in the United States.[3]

The film's world premiere was in Tokyo, Japan, on April 3, 2012.

NASAdiscovers an extrasolar planet, calledPlanet-Gby humans, withconditions similar to Earthand transmits a

powerful signal from a communications array inHawaii. Meanwhile slacker Alex Hopper gets arrested while

attempting to impress Sam Shane, daughter ofU.S. Pacific FleetcommanderAdmiralTerrance Shane. Stone Hopper,

Alex's older brother and aCommanderunder Shane, is infuriated at Alex's lack of motivation and forces him to join

him in theU.S. Navy.

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By the present day, Alex is a hotheadlieutenantaboard theArleigh Burke classdestroyerUSS John Paul Jones,

while Stone is the commanding officer ofUSS Sampson. Alex is in a relationship with Sam and is in danger of

beingdischargedfrom the Navy. Their ships join theRim of the Pacific Exercise(RIMPAC) in Hawaii.

During the exercises five alien spacecraft arrive in response to the NASA signal. Their communications ship crashes

inHong Kong, causing heavy damage and casualties there, while four others land in the water near

Hawaii. Sampson, John Paul Jones, and theJMSDFKong class destroyerMykinvestigate, but are trapped when

the alien mothership creates aforce field, trapping the three warships. The aliens destroy the Sampson andMyk,

and damage John Paul Jones, killing the commanding and executive officers. Alex sees his brother die and takes

command, albeit reluctantly and to the disbelief of the crew, as the most senior officer left on the ship. The John Paul

Jones recovers survivors from Myk, including Captain Nagata, with whom Alex is in a rivalry.

Meanwhile the aliens have taken over the communications array on Oahu. Nearby, Sam, a physiotherapist, is

accompanying retiredU.S. Armyveteran and double amputee Mick Canales on a hike to help him adapt to his

prosthetic legs. They run into scientist Cal Zapata, who informs them that the aliens are using the array to signal back

to their home planet. He retrieves a radio that will allow Sam and Mick to contact the John Paul Jones and relay this

information.

Back on the John Paul Jones, the crew faces difficulty because the alien force field has disabled radar functions.

Nagata suggests usingNOAA'stsunami warning buoysaround Hawaii to track the aliens. During a night battle, thealiens and the humans exchange fire. The John Paul Jones sinks two alien ships, but is unable to hit the third. After

briefly capturing an alien soldier, the humans learn that the aliens are sensitive to sunlight, and decides to lure the

third alien vessel close to shore, where he and Nagata shoot out its bridge windows as the sunrise blinds the

aliens. John Paul Jones destroys the last alien escort vessel only to fall prey to their mothership's long range weapons.

Fearing the aliens are contacting a larger invasion fleet, Alex needs to destroy the alien mothership. The survivors of

the John Paul Jones and Mykassume command ofUSS Missouri, a decommissionedbattleshipturned into

amuseum ship, and reactivate it with the aid of the retired veterans preserving her. In the ensuing battle,

the Missouriseverely damages the alien mothership, destroying its force field in process. Alex uses the last shell to

destroy the communications array on the island, leaving the Missouridefenseless. However, with the force field down,

jet fighters from the RIMPAC fleet arrive and save the crew by eliminating the alien threat.

A ceremony is held to honor the Navy personnel and Alex, who is promoted toLieutenant Commander, is presented

with aSilver Starand accepts Stone's posthumousNavy Crossand is also given command of a ship of his own. After

the ceremony, Alex asks Admiral Shane for his daughter's hand in marriage. The admiral initially refuses but invites

Alex to lunch to discuss the matter, referencing how Alex and Sam met.

A post-credits scene in Scotland shows three schoolchildren and a handyman running off in terror as an alien hand

reaches out of an object they have just opened.

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