A reboot of ‘Starship Troopers’ is in the works at Sony, with ‘District 9’ and ‘Chappie’ director Neill Blomkamp attached to helm.
I’d like to know more
I’m sure it will look good, but kinda worried that he will get the feel right.
He seems to have similar politics to Verhoeven, so I’m sure it’ll be the same kind of science fiction satire.
I don’t think starship troopers is remembered very fondly, so he’s got lots of space to work with.
Edit: it’s cool everybody, I get that I’m wrong. I just haven’t seen it since I was a kid and haven’t met anybody IRL that remembers the movie positively.
Wut? ST is a cult classic.
Even watching it in the cinemas I loved it. Was slightly too young to get the fascist undertones, but that made it so much better to rewatch a few years later.
I don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s a classic if not a cult classic, most people know about this movie love it.
I’m assuming this is top tier sarcasm.
I like how it’s based on the novel. I hope it’s good.
With Blomkamp working on it, I’m interested. I wonder if he will try to recreate the satire of the Verhoeven movie, follow the book more closely, or try to compare/reconcile the two. I hope it’s the last one, or at least not just a retread of the Verhoeven movie since that still holds up on its own.
Edit: I wish I’d read the article before posting (:/) because it sounds like they’re going for a more faithful rendition of the book! As someone whose ideals were influenced by the book’s themes of political responsibility, I am cautiously optimistic.
I respect this guy’s work. District 9 is a goid movie. Gran Turismo was very enjoyable to watch. Then there is Chappy and Elisium, which hit hard as well.
I’ve read the book. I’ve seen the original movie.
Considering the track record of the man, I want to risk conditions are met for a good movie to be created. I seriously doubt it will be agreeable to everyone, considering the book deals heavily with fascism and authoritarianism.
If we get a good action film with a very hard undertone of social and political critique, we’ll be very fortunate.
Perfect time for it, Verhoeven touched on it,bit was too subtle for most (I mean, Carls uniform in the end ia anything but…)
I’m actually looking forward to it.
That uniform was anything but.
You know as crazy as it sounds I think they might actually go too obvious with the satire given the current political climate. It’s strange because the original was so blatantly satirical yet people still didn’t get it. Regardless I don’t think it will be as funny, I did like district 9 though so who knows
After watching The Boys, I’m convinced you can never be too blunt with the right. If you do anything subtle, it’ll always go right over their head.
Didn’t they reboot it already?
There were two live action sequels, both pretty atrocious. One was so low budget that most of the bug scenes were footage from the original movie. And two animated movies, which were actually decent.
There was also Roughnecks, a short lived early CGI series. Was pretty fun for the time, looked a bit better than Reboot iirc. Although, reading up on it, wow it had a shitty production history. Was still fun to watch for kid me.
Two animated movies? I have only seen one. :O
Ghost of Mars was so-so, but I really like Invasion
I thought the third live action one was decent. It definitely had a catchy song: https://youtu.be/YB6Xq-jjzeE
Yeah, 3 was better than 2
Yet ANOTHER reboot??
Damn, i loved this movie but c’mon.
WAR!! INVASION!!! (I’d also like to know more)
Colour me interested.
It’ll be interesting to see if any elements from the book actually make it into this one.
