‘Battle: Los Angeles’ Set Photos
Today we’re taking a break from our regularly scheduled tactical pants coverage to give you the scoop on a new movie called Battle: Los Angeles.
Why? Well, aside from our penchant for tasteless celeb gossip, our sister site, BDU.COM, is supplying the film with uniforms, boots and various tactical items. However, the jury is still out as to whether some lovely tactical trousers will make a well-deserved cameo.
The premise of the movie, presented from a real-time perspective, involves a Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart), his newly formed platoon and a slew of potentially creepy-looking spacemen (since there’s an alien invasion and all). Some have called it an amalgamation of Independence Day and Black Hawk Down all taking place in sunny Los Angeles.
We hear that primary production wrapped in late December on location in Shreveport, La., which means it’s halfway there to becoming the next big blockbuster. But don’t add it to your Netflix queue just yet: Battle: LA isn’t scheduled for release until February 2011 — that’s more than a year away! But no timeline will keep a few onset photos from popping up online.
Jonathan Hoff managed to catch Eckhart in full-combat glory (via i09). It also looks like he has more to share, writing on Flickr that he has 40 original photographs. More pics appeared on manwithscaryspouse’s Webshots page with some real action (fire, car crashes, various mayhem). Unfortunately no one has yet to capture the mysterious, Earth-invading aliens.
What has surfaced, however, is a snapshot of teenybopper heartthrob Lucas Till, who plays Corporal Grayston in the movie. Till recently told MTV News that working on Battle: LA is a “dream job.” “I get to go to work and shoot guns all day so it’s pretty awesome,” he said. That is pretty awesome.
And now you can view part of the Shreveport set from the driver’s seat (see video below). As the videographer describes it, the street he films looks *nothing* like it did before — no Ben & Jerry’s or Maytag. The crew transformed a church into a bicycle shop. And, hey, wait … they even recreated the famous Laugh Factory. Is this supposed to be the Sunset Strip after an alien attack? Oh, Hollywood, you never cease to amaze us!
(Images via Jonathan Hoff and manwithscaryspouse)
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