No, seriously–aliens.  Yes, I find myself just as horrified to pass on this newsy bit to you, but apparently the film remake of the Hasbro board game will actively involve ALIENS.

Now, there’s no real word in what SENSE aliens are involved in this one, whether they come down to earth to join in some naval warfare or the whole thing’s suddenly a science fiction movie (which, admittedly, is at least kind of cool–we don’t get a whole lot of movies that feature space opera elements), but that’s the last word–that aliens were involved.

On the one hand, it’s not like I was expecting all that much out of the Battleship movie to begin with.  It’s a movie about a board game.  How much COULD it do?  But I do have some high hopes–we could get something really impressive out of this.  Think Wing Commander, only, you know, good.

We’ll have a long wait to find out, though, and hopefully when we do, it’ll turn out for the best.