'Battleship' Director Peter Berg Always Wanted To Make A Navy Movie

It's sort of hard to figure out what Peter Berg's angle is. The same guy who directed the original superhero flick "Hancock" also gave us the wonderful teen TV drama and movie "Friday Night Lights." He also gave us serious thrillers like "The Kingdom." His latest film "Battleship" -- a blockbuster adaptation of the classic game -- also seems at first to come out of left field, but Berg promised MTV News that his involvement in the veritable "Transformers"-meets-"Armageddon" blockbuster actually makes sense. Turns out that this type of film has been a cause close to his heart for a while now. Even though Berg has directed a variety of movies, he's always wanted to do one set in the ocean, and "Battleship" gave him the opportunity to do that. "I've been trying to do a movie set in the water for a long time. My dad was a naval historian, he used to drag me to every Navy museum in the world, anywhere we could go," Berg told MTV News at Toy Fair. "I've always wanted to do a movie about the Navy." But it was more than that. Berg said that he also has always wanted to do a big movie, something even bigger than "Hancock." Berg felt that it was his time to do a summer blockbuster, and that "Battleship" was the film to do it with. "I call these movies, they're like kind of 'super' movies now and they go out all around the world. Movies like 'Transformers,' 'G.I. Joe,' 'Battleship;' these films have such big reach. For me it made sense," Berg said. "Now to actually see all this kind of cross-marketing and see with the Hasbro machine kicking in, it's kind of awesome." Is "Battleship" a movie you're looking forward to? Tell us in the comments section below or on Twitter!