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Pop and R&B singer Rihanna will make her acting debut in the upcoming film
Battleship by director Peter Berg (
Hancock,
Friday Night Lights) and inspired by the Hasbro board game. The action war feature is due in theaters May 2012, it was announced in entertainment trade publication
Variety.
The film will star Alexander Skarsgard, of HBO's hit vampire series True Blood, and Taylor Kitsch ( X-Men Origins: Wolverine).
In this adaptation of the naval combat game, which covers land, air and water battles, a fleet of ships will be forced to fight an alien force and thwart the extraterrestrial invaders' destruction of Earth.
The story, written by Jon and Erich Hoeber ( Whiteout, Red) will be told from both sides of the battle. What role the singer will play has not been announced yet.
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