$200 Million Dollar Battleship for Rhiana

It appears now that Universal is about to roll the dice on a pricy $200 million-plus adaptation of the Hasbro game Battleship. Director Peter Berg has some action movie bona fides thanks to helming the superhero movie Hancock, which earned some $624 million worldwide. But Hancock starred Will Smith, who has demonstrated a lot more box office wattage than Battleship’s lead actor, Taylor Kitsch. Kitsch’s co-star Rihanna has a huge following because of her music, but she has never acted in a major movie before, which raises the stakes another notch.