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There's a lot of Michael "Transformers" Bay-hem in that trailer, don'tcha think?

Here it is, the piece of marketing artwork that you've all been waiting for: the teaser poster for Battleship.

The first trailer for Universal's Battleship has come out. As first trailers go, there's actually quite a bit of material in it setting up the main hero (Taylor Kitsch) and his bad boy attitude; his romance with the Admiral of his battleship's daughter; and the aliens that descend down to fight on the high seas. Get this: the aliens even use square pegs in their attack against the battleships!

Set your sights on the Battleship trailer right now:

Titanic and Avatar director James Cameron has opened fire on Hollywood turning board games into movies. The filmmaker gave an interview to German magazine Spiegel Online about what life is like for him 12 months after the stunning success of Avatar and one of the topics that was touched on was the state of mainstream movie making. Cameron decided it was the right time to set his sights on a current mega-project that Universal Pictures is making, a movie based on the Hasbro board game Battleship.

Here's what Cameron had to say about the shape of things (and as translated by Screenrant):

"We have a story crisis. Now they want to make the Battleship game into a film. This is pure desperation. Everyone in Hollywood knows how important it is that a film is a brand before it hit theaters. If a brand has been around, Harry Potter for example, or Spider-Man, you are light years ahead. And there lies the problem. Because unfortunately these franchises are become more ridiculous. Battleship. This degrades the cinema."

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On the first day of shooting the Battleship movie word breaks that Liam Neeson (Clash of the Titans, Taken) has accepted a role in the movie. He'll plkay Admiral Shane, the father of Brooklyn Decker's character and future father-in-law to Taylor Kitsch's naval officer.

Former Victoria's Secret lingerie model Brooklyn Decker has landed a role in Battleship. According to Latino Review, the 23-year-old is playing a character named Sam.

Pop singer Rhianna has landed a part in Peter Berg's Battleship. We just don't know yet what character she'll be playing.

Currently seen on TV playing the 2,000 -year-old vampire Eric Northman in HBO's True Blood, Alexander Skarsgard has a job during his show's hiatus starring in Battleship. He'll play the brother to Taylor Kitsch's character, a fellow naval officer that Kitsch's character looks up to.

By mere hours Taylor Kitsch was the first cast member revealed to be starring in the upcoming Battleship movie. The X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Friday Night Lights (television version) actor will play a commander of the naval fleet named Alex Hopper, described by the source that broke the news story as "a great seaman but a lousy politician" and "wildly spirited."

Just a couple of hours later the second cast member was known: Tom Arnold. The True Lies co-star told the outlet that asked him he was going to be filming Battleship in August in Australia.

In the middle of an interview with actor Jeremy Renner (he's up for an Oscar for his work in The Hurt Locker), a Reuters article reveals that he's in negotiations to play the lead role in the Battleship movie.

Universal has once again shifted the release of its Battleship movie, this time to the highly coveted Memorial Day long weekend of 2012. Peter Berg remains attached to direct. "We believe in Pete Berg and the incredible vision that he and the Battleship team have for this film," said studio chairman Adam Fogelson. "We're honored that Hasbro is partnering with us to turn one of its landmark properties into a huge summer box-office hit."

The studio has also described the movie's storyline as "a massive Naval adventure across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force."

If you want to be spoiled about who the bad guys are in the Battleship movie then today is your lucky day. The spoilage comes from Latino Review:

Universal is forging ahead on plans to make its Battleship movie. The studio has now announced a July 1, 2011 release date for the action movie and filming is scheduled to begin next spring. Peter Berg is confirmed to direct from a script by Jon and Erich Hoeber (Whiteout). No cast have been signed yet.

Hancock and Friday Night Lights director Peter Berg is in talks to come aboard Universal's big screen adaptation of Hasbro's Battleship board game. Screenwriters Jon and Erich Hoeber are already working on the screenplay [Full story]