News Flash: Alexander Skarsgard Lands ‘Battleship’ Role

The Hollywood Reporter has just announced that Alexander Skarsgard has signed on to the action-adventure film  Battleship, based on the Hasbro game. Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Snakes on a Plane) has also signed on to play the brother to Skarsgard’s role. (Yes, there is a God.)

The film will be directed by Peter Berg (Hancock) and will include an alien invasion, giving it a sci-fi tag. “The script, by Jon and Erich Hoeber, revolves around an international fleet coming together to battle a water-bound armada of otherworldly origin.

Skarsgard will play Kitsch’s brother, a straight and narrow naval officer whom Kitsch, a wildly spirited naval officer, idolizes.” Means we’ll be seeing him in uniform – again. I am not complaining!

Shooting begins filming in Hawaii (I gotta get me another job!) August 30 with plans for a June 18, 2012 release. Bookmark True-Blood.net to keep yourselves informed as news comes in.