Merrick here...

We've previously heard composer Brian Tyler talk about how phenomenal this film's design work/fx pre-vis is...learned that Aaron Eckhart would star (HERE) and that Jonathan Liebesman would direct (HERE) .

Now we have a sense of the characters who'll be defending L.A. against alien (the extraterrestrial kind) invasion via THIS casting breakdown over at Spoiler TV. There's a message on the page implicitly asking folks not to reprint the details, so don't yell at me about not presenting it here.