Trailer: You Sank My Battleshit!

Ok, so I had kind of heard that Hasbro was producing a movie based on their boardgame Battleship, but I was 100% convinced that I had either: a) Dreamt it, or b) Someone was taking the piss. And yet rumours of this Battleship movie continued to persist, and then I hear mere moments ago that the premise of the movie is actually battleships vs. aliens. For realz. I keep pinching myself and screaming, "WAAAAKEEE UPPPP!!! WAKKEEEE UPPP!!!" but no, this trailer is proof. Feast your eyes on modern cinema:

Liam Neeson is in this Battleship movie!? Okay, seriously now everyone, let's make a pact. Liam, if you get offered a Battleship movie again just start a Kickstarter campaign, OK? Say, "Hey everyone, I've been offered X amount of dollars to make a Battleship movie. If you can match it by the end of the month I won't do it." And everyone else promise to have Liam's back. Let's break some Kickstarter records. We're here for you, bro!

Now the good news is that I will probably pay to see this because I just discovered that in a month we're also getting a Battleship tie-in novelisation. So if you're a Book Was Better podcast fan, keep an eye on the ocean. Actual description:

YOU SANK THE WRONG BATTLESHIP During a routine naval drill at Pearl Harbor, American forces detect a ship of unknown origins that's crashed in the Pacific Ocean. Lieutenant Alex Hopper, an officer aboard the USS John Paul Jones, is ordered to investigate the ominous-looking vessel--which turns out to be part of an armada of ships that are stronger and faster than any on Earth. And that's when the Navy's radar goes down. Ambushed by a ravenous enemy they cannot see, a small U.S. fleet makes their last stand on the open ocean, armed with little more than their instincts, to defend their lives--and the world as we know it. 

And to think you idiots were excited about The Avengers!