Starship Troopers Reboot From Neill Blomkamp Coming

[ZariusTwo]

Deadline has confirmed that a new Starship Troopers is happening at Sony, with District 9 filmmaker Neill Blomkamp writing and directing.



The new movie will go back to the 1959 source material by Robert A. Heinlein and not be based on the 1997 Paul Verhoeven movie. That original movie was something of a misfire at the time of its release, made for $100 million and only making $121.2M worldwide. Clearly, legacy has been on the side of the military astronauts vs. bugs movie, as it propped the careers of Denise Richards, Casper Van Dien and Jake Busey.



Plot details for the new incarnation is under wraps, but I betcha the movie is about astronauts versus bugs.

https://deadline.com/2025/03/starshi...mp-1236327071/

[Andrew NDB]

Read about this today and rolled my eyes. Of all the Blomkamp movies we DID want (Alien 5, Robocop Returns, District 10, some kind of a Halo movie way back)... we end up with this?

Nobody wants this.

[IMJ]

Eh. Starship Troopers is fine as-is. Let it reside as what used to be a direct-to-video franchise and is now a direct-to-lame-streaming-service franchise.

The best things about the first one can't be replicated anyway - Dina Meyer, Denise Richards and the shock value of cool bug-aliens brought to you by early CGI.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by IMJ

Let it reside as what used to be a direct-to-video franchise

That's not really fair to call it that. That'd mean stuff like "Carlito's Way" is a "direct to video franchise."

[ZariusTwo]

It could mean we get a follow-up to the Roughnecks adaptation, I don't think that was ever completed.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

It could mean we get a follow-up to the Roughnecks adaptation, I don't think that was ever completed.

Every couple of years they seem to be consistently pumping out a new CGI movie sequel. That seems to be a thing.