Comments on: Peter Berg to Sink your Battleship

By: David Lopan

David Lopan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:26:30 +0000

For some reason, I find Guillermo Del Toro or Alfonso Cuaron to be good fits for re imagining Dune.

By: tzaylor

tzaylor — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:53:14 +0000

Hard to predict whether or not this movie will be good based on a title. They could go anywhere.

Looking at the director, I hated Hancock. It had good elements but the flaws sunk that battleship.

But I loved Friday Night Lights, the movie and the series. And I liked the Rundown.

Curious about where they take this…..but I would much rather see a proper Dune adaptation than a battleship adaptation.

By: Ty

Ty — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:48:48 +0000

We could be following a team of battleships that both had their radars shut off…

Isolated in the middle of the ocean, one team must get back to port. But they’re being tracked by a rogue battleship armada, and so they must try to get back safely while using their remaining missiles to ward off enemy attacks. But they have no idea where those ships are.

Something like that?

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:26:28 +0000

Terrible idea. Are they going to guess the enemy’s location by process of elimination? They could have easily made a movie based on the games Axis and Allies or Conquest of the Empire and it wouldn’t have seemed so forced. I however, am holding out for The Scrabble Chronicles or Ants in the Pants the Motion Picture.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:21:48 +0000

There is one positive spin to this news: It makes it less likely that Berg will direct “Dune.” I think he is wrong for that movie, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he left the project or was replaced in the next year. At least, that is what I hope.

Who knows, maybe Neil Blomkamp would be a good fit for “Dune?”