Battle: Los Angeles, also known as World Invasion: Battle LA outside the U.S., is an upcoming science fiction film directed by South African filmmaker Jonathan Liebesman, and starring Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Pena, and Bridget Moynahan. The film premise is inspired from the Battle of Los Angeles incident.

Premise

Battle: Los Angeles revolves around a Marine staff sergeant (Eckhart) and his new platoon's battle against an alien invasion on the streets of Los Angeles. The movie is presented as an intense real-time war movie from the perspective of the Marines. It has been described by some as "Black Hawk Down meets Independence Day". It will be a live-action drama, showcasing the United States Marines attempting to defeat an alien invasion of planet Earth.

Cast

• Aaron Eckhart as a Marine Staff Sergeant^[1]
• Michelle Rodriguez as Technical Sergeant Adriana Santos, USAF
• Bridget Moynahan as a veterinarian
• Michael Peña as a father of a boy the Marines find along the way
• Lucas Till as Corporal Grayston
• Joey King as Kirsten
• Taylor Handley as Simmons
• Noel Fisher as Private Lenihan
• Ramón Rodríguez as Lieutenant Martinez
• Neil Brown, Jr as Corporal Guerrerro
• Ne-Yo

Production

Filming will take place from September 2009 through October 2010 in Shreveport and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.^[2]

Principal photography began in the second week of September in Shreveport with scenes depicting a destroyed interstate filled with cars, an overturned tanker truck, and a crashed helicopter. Special effects used, which were unfamiliar in the Shreveport area, included pyrotechnics. The most climactic of all was a large fireball producing explosion, which alarmed passers-by unfamiliar with the filming. Film crews implemented use of a large "green-screen" billboard at the base (end) of the "destroyed" interstate to use later for inserting CGI images of Los Angeles.^[3]

Marines of VMMT-204, Marine Corps Air Station New River North Carolina were present for filming in Baton Rouge from October 19 through October 22, 2009. During this period there were multiple shots filmed of the MV-22B Tiltrotor aircraft flying and turning while on the ground. There were also shots of Marines entering and exiting the aircraft.^[4]

See also

• Battle of Los Angeles

References

External links

• Official website
• Battle: Los Angeles at the Internet Movie Database
• Mayors to talk about sci-fi movie shoot
• Battle: Los Angeles, Aaron Eckhart to shoot in Baton Rouge, Shreveport
• Movie to close part of I-49 starting Monday