While bathing in the success of The Dark Knight, Two-Face actor Aaron Eckhart was signed on to star as the lead in Battle: Los Angeles, a science-fiction war film to be directed by Jonathan Liebesman (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, The Killing Room).
That was back in November of last year and in recent weeks we’ve seen some heavy movement on the project with some casting announcements made at the end of July, including the additions of Michelle Rodriguez (Avatar) and Michael Pena.
Today we have news of a new pair of additions to the Battle: LA cast as well as some hints from the star of the interesting project, Eckhart, as to what style of movie we can expect to see.
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Joining the Fight
Joining the cast as fellow members of the anti-Alien military are Ramon Rodriguez and R&B singer–songwriter/record producer/actor, Ne-Yo.
Rodriguez you’ll recognize from his role as the annoyingly useless character in this year’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen where he played Shia LaBeouf’s over-the-top roommate.
According to Collider, Rodriguez is set to play a member of Aaron Eckhart’s platoon and Ne-Yo will play a Corporal in the Army.
As for the production status for Battle: Los Angeles, filming has just begun with its scheduled start of principal photography commencing today.
Fighting Style
Eckhart spoke with a group of reporters earlier this week in Beverly Hills, California to promote his upcoming film, Love Happens, and spoke a bit about Battle: Los Angeles, praising those involved and setting some high hopes with his comparisons.
“We’ve got a great shooter [Lukas Ettlin], and he’s going to do it like Black Hawk Down meets Alien. So it’s going to be real marine stuff. He’s going to film it in a very documentary style.”
Very documentary style? Somebody’s seen District 9! At least they’re keeping with the script comparisons we reported on last April which described the film as a mixture of Aliens, War of the Worlds, Black Hawk Down, Signs and Cloverfield.
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It sounds like a fun summer action movie. Wish them the best.
@ The real Joe,
No “Firsts” on this site, bud. I edited your comment – we want real discussion and comments on Screen Rant.
-Rob
If you wanted to make something that stands on its own? Something that has some modicum of originality. The necessity then of throwing out all the ideas that you’ve seen or read about regarding the subject of war, becomes job 1. One of the problems is wherever you set a conflict becomes an overarching limitation on what can be said about the conflict. “It’s on Earth, in LA, there, you’ve traveled so far down a particular road that confines possibilities. Of course, the minefields become more recognizable but where’s the challenge? All the other movies mentioned above had something to say. Will this one, or will it be like listening to a test tone for 90 minutes?
You want to talk about weapons?? How about a mosquito that injects you with a living explosive thats objective is to travel to the brain. Once there it triggers like nitro, one bump and your head explodes. They discover what causes it and nick name it the buzz killing-ton. The Aliens have an animal that eats the human dead and excretes food for the Aliens. Its head should remind you of a combine or a tree limb shredder. Of course the end product should look exactly like corn beef hash on toast. Alien tanks should eat metal and constantly excrete ammo to fit the Alien weapons. Forget laser or portable high energy weapons. Too fragile, high maintenance and unreliable. How do the Aliens look? Humanoid, Skin texture like a dappled dachshund all wear goggles that when removed reveal, compound eyes. Teeth are black as coal. Perhaps all should look a little underfed.
i like the idea of the film but not sure about bringing a Singer to ACT….that sometimes doesnt work but i dunno this could work……..will have to wait and see
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