“Battle: Los Angeles”, starring Aaron Eckhart, recounts the tale of one squads hands on and day to day struggles with an invading force of aliens from a planet obviously not as nice as ours. Why they pick L.A. to invade is a little sketchy.
Taylor Handley plays a marine in the squad led by Mr. Eckhart and he has obviously been chosen as point man in the inevitable onslaught of little leaks into the Battle story about to be revealed.
Taylor thinks “Battle: Los Angeles” is a pretty unique take on the alien invasion theme and I kind of agree. I’m getting a “Cloverfield” kind of vibe and that’s a good feeling.
It’s kind of cool, because all the alien movies in the past, it really involves the world as a whole,” Handley said in an exclusive interview on March 16 in Austin, Texas, where his film Skateland played at the South by Southwest Film Festival. “In this movie it’s different, because it just focuses on one fire squad in particular.”
Battle: Los Angeles can show the nitty-gritty specific operations of just how one branch of the military could operate an anti-alien campaign. Sort of like how Transformers analyzed their tactics against giant robots, right?
“It’s just how they do their ops in the middle of downtown Los Angeles,” Handley continued. “It’s really cool. It doesn’t flash to any big president or anything. It’s really all about the boys defending American soil.”
I really like the limited viewpoint storyline. Too much information steals all the suspense away. After “Cloverfield” I thought we’d be jammed with stories about confused people in big situations but that hasn’t (yet) been the case. “Battle: Los Angeles” is directed by Jonathan Liebesman and is due Feb. 18, 2011. Thanks Scifiwire.
