Universal invited fans aboard its Battleship on Saturday at the WonderCon convention in Anaheim, showing plenty of footage, characters and, yes, even revealing the aliens at the center of its big summer movie.

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With co-stars Brooklyn Decker and Alexander Skarsgaard sitting next to him, director Peter Berg kicked off the presentation by explaining his decision to include aliens in a movie adaptation of a Hasbro board game that does not feature aliens.
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While he has plenty of respect for Navy history, Berg said he wanted to make a film that felt more fun than a traditional military film. The idea for the aliens, he said, came from watching a documentary in which Stephen Hawking talked about Goldilocks planets, which have been identified as having potential for life. Governments on Earth have sent radio signals to these planets attempting to discover if anyone is out there.
"And he says, 'This is a horribly stupid idea.' If they are out there, we should not be trying (to reach them)," Berg explained.

The production has taken heat from some quarters for casting R&B star Rihanna in the movie (it's her acting debut), but Berg defended singers-turned-thespians. He pointed to Frank Sinatra as one who made a memorable transition and said he "personally had great success in Tim McGraw (who appeared in Berg's Friday Night Lights and The Kingdom). They make great actors."

Added Berg: "Rihanna asked for no special treatment, she stayed in the same crappy hotels we did, and she said 'Treat me like an actor.'"

Berg, in a relavatory mood, also said how a month before filming he got a call from Kevin Costner, which elicited laughs from the audience since Costner is responsible for making one the biggest water movie flops of all time, Waterworld.
"'I feel compelled to talk to you about what we did right and wrong,'" Berg

said Costner told him, adding that Costner talked to him and his line producer for about three hours.

It still didn't truly prepare Berg for the hardships of filming on water; on the production's first day, the cinematogprher got sea sick, star Taylor Kitsch was injured, and one crew member quit.

The presentation showed two extended scenes, giving the crowd a major sense of the movie, and also premiered the latest trailer, which will be shown in front of Wrath of the Titans.
The presentation was a stark contrast to Fox's Prometheus panel, which while showing a slick trailer, still kept many things close to the vest.

繼變形金剛之后，全球知名玩具公司孩之寶，將旗下的另一款經(jīng)典對(duì)戰(zhàn)游戲在2012年搬上大銀幕，環(huán)球影業(yè)與孩之寶聯(lián)手重金打造的《超級(jí)戰(zhàn)艦》，以超越想象的視效，為觀眾展現(xiàn)了2012終極災(zāi)難的另一種可能性，異星戰(zhàn)艦以毀滅者的姿態(tài)降臨地球，它們?yōu)楹味鴣?lái)，一場(chǎng)人類(lèi)的海上地球保衛(wèi)戰(zhàn)在太平洋上震撼開(kāi)戰(zhàn)。

在各種末世預(yù)測(cè)和預(yù)言之下，人們帶著各種猜測(cè)來(lái)到2012，這一年充滿(mǎn)著許多神秘莫測(cè)的不確定。在《超級(jí)戰(zhàn)艦》中，這種不確定變成來(lái)自外太空的回應(yīng)，另一種未知的智慧生物光臨地球，它們藏匿深海，卻又突如其來(lái)地襲擊地球，在世界各地，橋梁被摧毀，建筑物被炸垮，甚至連軍事基地都未能幸免，一場(chǎng)毀滅性的災(zāi)難正在全球上演。沒(méi)有人知道它們從哪里來(lái)，又為何而來(lái)，超級(jí)戰(zhàn)艦與異星戰(zhàn)艦的對(duì)決，從它們?cè)谔窖舐?lián)合軍演中的一次遭遇中開(kāi)戰(zhàn)。

的第一場(chǎng)驅(qū)逐艦與異星戰(zhàn)艦的遭遇戰(zhàn)，就發(fā)生在夏威夷瓦胡島的珍珠港海域。導(dǎo)演選擇珍珠港作為拍攝地的原因，它在第二次世界大戰(zhàn)時(shí)是重要的戰(zhàn)場(chǎng)，為了拯救人類(lèi)，戰(zhàn)艦在太平洋海域集結(jié)。電影將這一次的地球保衛(wèi)戰(zhàn)設(shè)置在這個(gè)地方發(fā)生，是向過(guò)去那場(chǎng)拯救人類(lèi)的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)致敬。為了讓在珍珠港的拍攝更加具有真實(shí)感，劇組放棄了在水池中拍攝的設(shè)想，一場(chǎng)浩大的海戰(zhàn)需要真實(shí)浩瀚的海洋。當(dāng)電影創(chuàng)作者們到達(dá)夏威夷面對(duì)珍珠港的海港時(shí)，他們就決定在海中拍攝，因?yàn)闊o(wú)論如何，誰(shuí)都不可能在水池中拍出最真實(shí)的大海。

《超級(jí)戰(zhàn)艦》的制作人之一鄧肯，在過(guò)去20年中制作了許多關(guān)于水的電影，包括?完美風(fēng)暴?、?怒海爭(zhēng)鋒：極地遠(yuǎn)征?等，這樣的電影遇到的最艱難的決定，就是在真實(shí)的海域拍攝。而《超級(jí)戰(zhàn)艦》不只是一艘船或幾艘船的問(wèn)題，這是一場(chǎng)戰(zhàn)況空前的世紀(jì)海戰(zhàn)，現(xiàn)代最先進(jìn)最完備的軍艦，還有超越想象之外的異星戰(zhàn)艦，都將現(xiàn)身在這場(chǎng)浩大的海戰(zhàn)之中，這是他們從來(lái)沒(méi)有嘗試過(guò)的，也面臨許多問(wèn)題。鄧肯說(shuō)：“在大海中拍攝是很獨(dú)特的，我們確實(shí)需要一些運(yùn)氣，沒(méi)有下雨，海水也很平靜，我們還得到了海軍等多方的支援，我們可以說(shuō)具備了天時(shí)地利人和?！?/p>

電影創(chuàng)作者艱苦卓絕的真實(shí)海域拍攝，給了《超級(jí)戰(zhàn)艦》最真實(shí)的浩瀚，加之卓越非凡的電腦特效，一場(chǎng)奪人眼球的海上地球保衛(wèi)戰(zhàn)，造就2012最震撼視聽(tīng)的大銀幕巨作。《超級(jí)戰(zhàn)艦》4月中旬登陸中國(guó)，IMAX巨幕版本有望同步上映，震撼超越想象。?