Songstress Rihanna is making her feature film debut in Universal Picture's Battleship starring alongside Alexander Skarsgård and Taylor Kitsch.

According to Variety, director Peter Berg is expected to soon begin shooting the live-action tentpole based on Hasbro's naval combat board game.

Battleship takes place across the seas, over the skies and land in a battle for planet survival against a superior force. Kitsch stars as a naval officer who leads the fight. Skarsgård will play his brother.

Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber wrote the screenplay, with revisions by Brian Koppelman and David Levien.