The first trailer appears for alien invasion movie Battle: Los Angeles. And you can see it right here…
It’s a weird coincidence that, just as I’m about to depart to see the Strause brothers’ Skyline, the first trailer for Jonathan Liebesman’s similarly themed Battle: Los Angeles hovers into view on the Internet.
Set to the ominous strains of Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Sun’s Gone Dim, the trailer hints at a grittier take on the familiar alien invasion premise, with a visual style not dissimilar to Black Hawk Down or District 9.
We get glimpses of Aaron Eckhart and Michelle Rodriguez in their army fatigues, looking alternately determined and terrified as an extra-terrestrial armada lays waste to Tinsel Town, and the visual effects (which were overseen, in another spooky coincidence, by the brothers Strause) are quite spectacular.
While there’ll be no shortage of alien invasion films heading our way over the coming months, the twist of setting the action at street-level is an interesting one, and the trailer’s a genuinely well constructed one.
It’s curious, however, that the film’s title isn’t mentioned – more curious still, IMDB now lists the film under the name World Invasion: Battle LA. Have the movie’s producers decided to go for a last-minute title change?
Battle: Los Angeles (or World Invasion: Battle LA) is due to arrive in cinemas on 25 March 2011.
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