Peter Berg recently finished the bulk of his work on the adaptation of the Parker Bros. board game Battleship, which has somehow transformed into an alien-invasion story for its big-screen voyage. Deadline reports he’ll next turn to a more grounded theater of war with the story of a Navy SEAL team sent to kill a ranking al Qaeda leader … but not the one you might be thinking of. The report also confirms the director will reunite with his Battleship star Taylor Kitsch for this movie.

Berg will adapt Marcus Luttrell’s autobiographical account Lone Survivor, which runs through the details of a 2005 mission in Afghanistan in which four SEALs were dispatched to take out an al Qaeda leader hiding out in a nearby Taliban stronghold. The mission was over less than 24 hours later, and only Luttrell, the team’s leader, survived. It gets even crazier, too: Over the four days that followed, the badly injured Luttrell fought off six al Qaeda assassins and eventually crawled seven miles through the mountains, back into friendly territory.

Source – go read the rest of the article there.

First up, Taylor-Kitsch.net would like to wish Taylor a very happy birthday! He turns 29 today!

Taylor Kitsch Will Sink Your Battleship

Taylor Kitsch (upcoming John Carter of Mars, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, “Friday Night Lights”) will star in Universal’s adaptation of the Hasbro game Battleship.

Peter Berg is directing the action adventure, which will unfold as a massive Naval adventure across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force.

The script, by Jon and Erich Hoeber, sees an international fleet come together to battle a water-bound armada of otherworldly origin.

Heat Vision says Kitsch is playing a Naval commander named Alex Hopper, described as “wildly spirited” and “a great seaman but a lousy politician.” Other key roles in the film include the female lead as well as a Japanese commander.

The Hurt Locker star Jeremy Renner was previously in the running for the role but opted to do Paul Thomas Anderson’s new drama instead. (source)

I would like to wish Taylor a very happy birthday! He turns 28 today! Here’s hoping he’ll get some time off from his busy schedule to celebrate!

I also want to say that I would like to encourage everyone to steer clear from the leaked workprint of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Let’s all support Taylor and the movie by seeing it in the cinema and not on our computer screens. We all want a Gambit movie, don’t we!? So, making this movie successful at the box office is the way to go and maybe we’ll get our wish granted!

Anyways, look for some new Friday Night Lights related screencaps in the gallery coming up later today.

I’m waiting for the official announcement before I entirely believe it. It seems too good to be true in a way. *lol* No word on whether Taylor is set to return in full capacity or as a guest star to wrap up his character’s storyline.

It’s official: ‘Friday Night Lights’ renewed for two more seasons

Touch-freaking-down!

Sources at NBC are now confirming what I first reported earlier this month: DirecTV and NBC have come to terms on a deal that ensures Friday Night Lights will stick around for not one but two more seasons!

And I repeat: Touch-freaking-down!

Although NBC declined to comment, my Peacock insider says the pact guarantees that FNL will see a fourth and fifth season of 13 episodes each. Similar to this season’s shared-window experiment, DirecTV will get first crack at the episodes followed by an encore run on NBC.

Let’s get a chant going in the comments section! And while you’re at it, pray that the show’s creative mastermind, Jason Katims, finds a way to juggle both FNL and that prospective Parenthood series he’s producing for NBC. Ditto director Jeffrey Reiner, who’s attached to NBC’s Trauma pilot. Losing one would be devastating; losing both would be a catastrophe. So how about we lose neither? You with me? (source)

Lots of Taylor news have been trickling in and I’m missing out on so much. Sorry for not keeping you guys more up to date. I’m sure things will be become even more busy come April.

Anyways, caps from this past’s Friday Night Lights episode will be online asap. For today, I come bearing a bunch of pictures that have been sitting on my harddrive. I have so much more stuff to add though.

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine – Promotional Stills
X-Men Origins: Wolverine – Promotional Photoshoot
X-Men Origins: Wolverine – Trailer #2 Screencaps
Friday Night Lights – 3.02 Tami Knows Best Stills
Friday Night Lights – 3.06 – It Ain’t Easy Being J.D. McCoy Stills
Friday Night Lights – 3.07 – Keeping Up Appearances Stills
2008 Gemini Awards Gala – Red Carpet & Presenting Screencaps
Flaunt Photoshoot*
NY Magazine Photoshoot*
V Magazine Photoshoot*

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VanityFair.com has put up a nice interview with Taylor.

Taylor Kitsch Just Wants to Huddle

Taylor Kitsch plays Tim Riggins, the Dillon Panthers’ fullback who has dirty hair, abundant charm, and bad intentions. In the past three seasons of Friday Night Lights, Riggins has seduced the town sweetheart, dallied with a single mom, and encountered innumerous “rally girls.” He’s the archetype rascal, and Kitsch plays him to perfection. Tonight, Riggins strolls dangerously close to the V.F. office in the episode “New York, New York.” Today, Kitsch tells VF Daily he’s more than just “that guy on the show that’s always shirtless.”

VF Daily: Were you a Riggins in high school?
Taylor Kitsch: No. Fuck no! I wish! I live vicariously through him. I think a lot of people live vicariously through Riggs.
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