It was recently announced thatPeter Berg would be directing the live-action Call of Duty adaptation, with Taylor Sheridan penning the script. This wouldn’t be the first time that Berg has directed a military action movie, nor is it his first time adapting a game. The filmmaker’s original brush with existing IP came in 2012, when he made a movie for Hasbro that was designed to replicate the success of Michael Bay‘s Transformers franchise. Instead of integrating different properties into the already established Transformers universe, Hasbro attempted to launch separate franchises based on its IP. First out of the gate was G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, which underperformed with around $302 million worldwide against a reported budget of $175 million. Incidentally, Berg’s movie grossed an almost identical amount during its run.
Like the G.I. Joe movie, Berg’s big-budget bomb also found success on streaming platforms recently. His film grossed $303 million worldwide against a reported budget of around $220 million, and is said to have lost Universal $150 million. Berg intended to make an epic action-adventure film that highlighted naval warfare in a way that Hollywood hadn’t in years — at least not since Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Headlined by Russell Crowe, Master and Commander was reappraised a few years ago, around the same time as the release of Greyhound, starring Tom Hanks. Greyhound remains hugely popular on Apple TV, more than five years after its release. A sequel is in the works.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
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Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🏜️Paul Atreides
🖖Capt. Kirk
✊Princess Leia
🔦Ellen Ripley
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🔥Max Rockatansky
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How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher? The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
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What is your greatest strength in a crisis? The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
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What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for? Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
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How do you relate to the people around you? Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
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You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do? How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.
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What has your heroism cost you personally? Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.
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How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in? Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?
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When everything is on the line, what keeps you going? The answer is the most honest thing about you.
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Your Hero Has Been Identified Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
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Arrakis · Dune
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.
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USS Enterprise · Star Trek
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
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The Rebellion · Star Wars
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
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The Nostromo · Alien
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.
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The Wasteland · Mad Max
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
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Here’s the Sci-Fi Alternative to ‘Greyhound’ That’s Spiking on Streaming
No follow-up was made for Berg’s film, however. We’re talking about Battleship, starring Taylor Kitsch, Liam Neeson,Tadanobu Asano, Rihanna, Brooklyn Decker, and others. The movie received poor reviews and is now sitting at a 34% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “It may offer energetic escapism for less demanding filmgoers, but Battleship is too loud, poorly written, and formulaic to justify its expense — and a lot less fun than its source material.” Berg and Kitsch reunited on the critically acclaimed military action film Lone Survivor, and then on the recent Netflix Western series American Primeval.
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According to FlixPatrol, Battleship was among the most-watched movies on the domestic Prime Video chart this week. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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Release Date
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May 18, 2012
Runtime
131 minutes
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Writers
Erich Hoeber, Jon Hoeber
Producers
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Duncan Henderson, Scott Stuber, Bennett Schneir, Brian Goldner
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