Columbia Pictures is plotting a new Starship Troopers movie, setting District 9 filmmaker Neill Blomkamp to write and direct an adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel story by Robert A. Heinlein.
There better be a co-ed shower scene in this one as well.
This combination just feels right. Like peeing outdoors.
Honestly I would agree if Blomkamp hadn’t been on a downward slope since District 9. Granted, I haven’t watched that Gran Turismo movie he did. But Demonic was straight up terrible.
I… am assuming / hoping they will just pretend all the … basically straight to dvd sequels… do not exist.
Ok, actually read the article: It’s going straight to the actual source material, the 1959 book… which… could actually be pretty interesting, there are a lot of non total parody ways you could portray that future world, and you could of course put your own spin on it and change some plot or worldlore or characters and come out with your own thing.
Blade Runner, for example… diverges fairly significantly, in many ways, from the actual book, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Of course, it could also be terrible, or mid. Who knows! But it seems more like its going to be a different attempt at adapting the book to film, not a sequel to the Veerhoven movie.
Maybe we’ll get Lynch Dune, maybe we’ll get Villenueve Dune, maybe we’ll get SyFy channel Dune, lol.
I really hope Blomkamp takes the satirical approach and isn’t like “I wanna make a Starship Troopers movie that is much more like the book.”
Yeah the last thing the world needs right now is more auth/fash propaganda.
Is going to remake Galaxy Quest next? Maybe I’m having a “Get of my lawn” moment, but leave my precious alone. 😭
Starship troopers the book and the movie are separate. The movie is it’s own special beautiful absurdity loosely based on the book but not really at all.
Jurassic Park is loosely based on the book as well, at least that was my take after reading it.
So is this new movie (series) going to be a closer following to the books?
Hopefully comes to fruition. Sadly his Alien film did not.
Yeah, I don’t need a movie that requires a sequel that never happens.
There’s already like five or more Starship Troopers movies. They really went to tpwn making bad sequels.
Aren’t there a bunch of sequels in the books?
I don’t believe Heinlein ever wrote a sequel to Starship Troopers, though certainly the “military science fiction” genre owes a lot to that book.
Ed Neumeier (who wrote Robocop and the 97 movie) however, wrote and directed the 2 live action film sequels. The second is, from memory, God awful and not worth a watch. The third is ALSO God awful as I recall, but it has the advantage of going pretty big with its ideas, so there’s a bit of zany fun to be had. Plus, despite it being one of the defining features of the book, it’s also the first time (I think) power armor makes an appearance in the film franchise. Casper van Dien’s star had fallen sufficiently by that point too, so he also reprises his role as Rico, which is another point in its favor.
There also a handful of computer animated movies and a TV series that I believe originated in Japan. They are about on par, quality wise, with the CGI Resident Evil movies. Depending on your tastes, that could either be a mild endorsement or a resounding condemnation.
No there arent sequels.
However there is the Forever War series by Joe Haldeman, which he claimed was influenced by Stormship Troopers (and his own war experience). Mechanical super warriors in space but instead of glorifying war it showed a darker side.
Heinlein actually told Haldeman at an award ceremony that his book “may be the best future war story I’ve ever read!”
This is my go to example when bitching about “Why make another spider man? You could make The Forever War!”
Are you perhaps thinking of Ender’s Game? I get the two books confused occasionally too for some reason
Yes.
Will it actually be faithful to the book this time?
I don’t think I’d even want it to be, to be honest. The original book was really just fascist apologia, and the later adaptations of it had the foresight to use that premise instead for more effective social commentary.
Edit: I should clarify that I don’t think Heinlein himself was a fascist, but Starship Troopers is easily read as such.
