Sci-Fi Starship Troopers Remake Is in the Works

[Loki882]

There's no intergender facilities in the book if I remember correctly (it's been awhile since I read it). Also women couldn't be front-line combat soldiers in the book either (although they could be pilots). But someone please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about that.

 

[Breogan]

Almost 20 years after the release of its predecessor, Starship Troopers will finally receive a sequel this August via Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars. The film will continue the story from Paul Verhoeven’s cult classic in CG, but don’t expect the animated film to hold back on the bug-tastic gore and action. Officially rated R, the sequel will also feature actors Casper Van Dien and Dina Meyers reprising their roles as Johnny Rico and Dizzy Flores respectively.

Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars Drops a New Trailer - http://www.cbr.com/starship-troopers-traitor-mars-trailer-2/

In Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars, Johnny Rico has just been demoted and sent to a small satellite station on Mars whilst the Federation attacks the bugs’ home planet. While trying to train his new recruits on this remote quiet station, the bugs show up in a surprise attack but the Federation’s Fleet is too far away to help. It’s up to Rico and his Troopers to save the planet and uncover how the bugs made it so close to home.

Tickets - https://www.fathomevents.com/events/starship-troopers-traitor-of-mars

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[Osiris-Rex]

So not a remake, a sequel instead. Good. Most remakes tend to be inferior to the original anyway. PotA being one of the few exceptions.

 

[I Am The Knight]

Hmmm...

 

[terry78]

I'll probably watch it.

 

[TheVileOne]

Reboot has such a negative connotation these days, all the filmmakers are now so quick to say "it's not a reboot! It's a sort of sequel!"

 

[terry78]

Reboot is a dirty word. Now it's a continuation.

 

[Teelie]

The word reboot justifabily gets a dirty reputation because it is so badly abused. Instead of trying to improve or reintroduce an older franchise the studios tried to use it as a means to throw out whatever half-baked sequel/prequel/remake they had in the oven and tell us it was good.

Reboots aren't new and the studios will just move onto a new word like continuation or restart or reinvention. Whatever they say, it will often be another poorly thought out addition to whatever previous movie they are grinding the bones up from.

 

[squeekness]

I'll probably watch it.

Mòvies like this are why I have Netflix. Won't pay to go see it but I'd still like to give it a watch, especially if the reviews are good.

 

[I Am The Knight]

Yeah.

 

[Pennywise]

Man there really is no need to re-make this, unless it is going to be totally different. Watched the first one for the first time in a while tonight and it still hols up brilliantly.

If Neill Blomkamp was set as director though, it would get my attention.

New ‘Starship Troopers’ Movie in the Works from ‘District 9’ Filmmaker Neill Blomkamp (Exclusive)

Sony is behind the new adaptation, which is not a remake of Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 film, but rather will go back to the 1959 novel as source material.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Da-Scribe]

Whenever one of these reports says that a movie won't be a remake and will go back to the source material, I feel like it is almost always nothing like the source material at all. Wasn't the same thing said about The Crow remake that just came out? Maybe that's just me misremembering things.

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

I rather they keep the satirical tone from the ‘97 movie because the book is VERY serious and pushes the facism angle HARD. Something we DO NOT NEED RIGHT NOW for reasons I do not need to say.

I’m just shocked Blomkamp got picked for this and not Robocop, which is much more his field.

 

[TheVileOne]

I rather they keep the satirical tone from the ‘97 movie because the book is VERY serious and pushes the facism angle HARD. Something we DO NOT NEED RIGHT NOW for reasons I do not need to say.

I’m just shocked Blomkamp got picked for this and not Robocop, which is much more his field.

I think he was on a RoboCop reboot for a while but it fell apart.

 

[donuts]

I think he was on a RoboCop reboot for a while but it fell apart.

I would've rather seen that RoboCop reboot, that was supposed to be based on Ed Neumeier's original idea for RoboCop 2... Where he gets blown up to pieces in the opening scene, and then gets reactivated in the future.

 

[TheVileOne]

Would've made sense if they did it 15-20 years ago. Instead, they chased the top-down reboot money and lost big time.

 

[donuts]

His Aliens sequel is something else I would've rather have seen than this. But ah, well.

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

Why does Neil keep getting attached to promising sequels that go nowhere! His Alien one sounded awesome…..but Fox scrapped it for ****ing Covenant.

 

[Drizzle]

I'm expecting this to fall through too. District 9 was a great debut for Blomkamp but with everything since then, it feels like his career has been cursed.

 

[donuts]

Why does Neil keep getting attached to promising sequels that go nowhere! His Alien one sounded awesome…..but Fox scrapped it for ****ing Covenant.

He finally managed to attach himself to a reboot that's not promising at all...

 

[donuts]

Just a ray of sunshine, are you?

I actually am. And I look forward to lots of upcoming movies.

 

[Sithborg]

I do find it funny that people still want his Alien 3, considering the complaints about Romulus.

That said, I have soured on Blomkamp.

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

I actually am. And I look forward to lots of upcoming movies.

Dude I deleted that post to avoid trouble.

 

[donuts]

Dude I deleted that post to avoid trouble.

Okay.

I do find it funny that people still want his Alien 3, considering the complaints about Romulus.

That said, I have soured on Blomkamp.

That train has long sailed for Blomkamp's Aliens sequel. But I wouldn't make the automatic correlation between the two projects. A sequel doesn't necessarily have to be a remix of previous things. The best sequels aren't. An d I liked Alien: Romulus, but yeah, the references to the older movies got heavy handed.

 

[TheVileOne]

Why does Neil keep getting attached to promising sequels that go nowhere! His Alien one sounded awesome…..but Fox scrapped it for ****ing Covenant.

It's the story of his career, starting with Halo. Technically not a sequel though.