Rihanna Jumps On Board Peter Berg’s Battleship
How curious. Peter Berg has cast Rihanna in his sci-fi adaptation of the Battleship boardgame. She joins the previously announced Alexander Skarsgaard, Taylor Kitsch and boatloads – literally – of alien invaders.
Variety note that the current script revisions are by Brian Koppellman and David Levien, writers of Rounders, Ocean’s 12 and The Girlfriend Experience, rewriting work by Red‘s Jon and Erich Hoeber. That’s some talent behind the keyboard. Promising.
There’s no indication in Variety‘s report of what Rihanna will be doing, though I imagine it will involve looking fierce and frightening me slightly.
I’m always interested when pop stars become actors. It sometimes goes very well: I wouldn’t buy a Jennifer Lopez album in a thousand years, but her turn in Out of Sight is a real favourite.