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Peter Berg to direct 'Battleship'

By Adnan Tezer Sep 15, 2009, 16:50 GMT

Peter Berg will direct the live-action version of “Battleship” based on Hasbro's naval combat board game for Universal. The studio has set the release date for July 1, 2011.

The deal is part of a two-picture film agreement Berg has made with Universal, where he'll follow "Battleship" with "Lone Survivor," a fact-based story he scripted about a Navy SEAL team that is sent to Afghanistan and is ambushed.

According to Variety, "Battleship" will be the second film release from the studio's multi-year deal with Hasbro to turn its classic board games into features. The studio previously announced that "Stretch Armstrong" would be released on April 11, 2011.

Aside from "Battleship" and "Stretch Armstrong," Universal is also developing "Clue" with Gore Verbinski, "Monopoly" with Ridley Scott, "Candyland" with director Kevin Lima, and "Ouija" with Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes production company.

Scott Stuber and his Stuber Pictures production company will produce "Battleship" alongside Hasbro's Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir, Berg and his Film 44 partner Sarah Aubrey.

The script was written by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber ("Whiteout").

Production on "Battleship" will begin next spring.

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