The battle against aliens in Los Angeles will soon begin. No I don’t mean illegal aliens…I’m talking dirty dangerous ones from outer space. And it will be up to Ne-Yo and Aaron Eckhart to save the city in the upcoming movie Battle: Los Angeles. Ne-Yo is set to play a corporal in the film and Eckhart as the leader of a platoon struggling to fight against the aliens on the streets of L.A. Michelle Rodriguez portrays another corporal, and Bridget Moynahan will play a veterinarian.

“We are doing our best to do something that hasn’t been done before,” director Jonathan Liebesman, told MTV News. “This is like ['Bourne Supremacy' director] Paul Greengrass got a camera, saw some aliens and shot it from the point of view of a platoon. It’s literally like ‘Black Hawk Down,’ if there were aliens in there. Like Iraq war footage, but with aliens running around.”

The only real question is…if Ne-Yo is playing a corporal does that mean he does not get to wear one of his many cool fedora’s or will we actually see his balding Sam Cassell head on the big screen?