Aaron Eckhart (
The Dark Knight) will star in
Battle: Los Angeles, a sci-fi action feature that Jonathan Liebesman will direct for Columbia.
According to
The Hollywood Reporter, the story was written by Chris Bertolini, and revolves around a Marine platoon's encounter in the battle on the streets of Los Angeles against an alien invasion.
Eckhart will play the platoon leader in the film, which has yet to set a start date.
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"Unidentified objects were reported over Los Angeles during the night of February 24 and the early morning hours of February 25, 1942. Air raid sirens were sounded throughout Los Angeles County at 2:25 a.m. and a total blackout was ordered. Thousands of air raid wardens were summoned to their positions.
At 3:16 a.m. on February 25, the 37th Coast Artillery Brigade began firing 12.8-pound anti-aircraft shells into the air at the object(s); over 1400 shells would eventually be fired [1]. Pilots of the 4th Interceptor Command were alerted but their aircraft remained grounded. The artillery fire continued sporadically until 4:14 a.m. The objects were said to have taken about 20 minutes to have moved from over Santa Monica to above Long Beach. The "all clear" was sounded and the blackout order lifted at 7:21 a.m.
In addition to several buildings damaged by friendly fire, three civilians were killed by the anti-aircraft fire, and another three died of heart attacks attributed to the stress of the hour-long bombardment."