cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26862304
A reboot of ‘Starship Troopers’ is in the works at Sony, with ‘District 9’ and ‘Chappie’ director Neill Blomkamp attached to helm.
It needs no remake. The original movie made a statement that needs repeating in today’s day and age but is still effective by just rewatching it.
Xenophobic nationalism can’t do anything but crush bugs by throwing as many citizens at it as possible.
This wasn’t the exact message in the original novel but our planet’s current direction politically is definitely leaning towards fascist tendencies in more than one country.
Could have just done a HellDivers movie tbh
And leave a good classic intact.
While exact plot details remain closely guarded, the new “Starship Troopers” is said to draw inspiration from Heinlein’s original military story, rather than pulling from the fascist send-up that characterized Verhoeven’s satirical adaptation.
Yeah, you don’t want to send up fascists today…
(Wonders if The Great Dictator and Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers would make a good double-bill.)
I want my power armor.
Read the first chapter of the novel. One of the best battle scenes ever written.
Also, the scene where The Lieutenant goes back to save a trooper and that action delays the launch. The shuttle’s pilot is sure everyone is going to die, but the mother ship’s Captain flies in by eye and makes the pickup.
If you enjoy power armor stories, give “Armor” a shot.
If you like war stories, give “Night Soldiers” a shot. A young Bulgarian is killed by a fascist mob. His brother is recruited into the KGB and is sent to fight in Spain. Reads like a collaboration between Franz Kafka and Ian Fleming. Alan Furst is the author.
Lmao this will be so neutered and watered down it will be unwatchable.
$5 says they make it a generic action movie with no deeper meaning than “bugs needed killing we just defended ourselves”
If Neil Blomkamp makes it, you’ll lose that bet. He’s the perfect choice for a Starship Troopers remake.
But he’ll probably set it in South Africa.Well, I’ve only seen d9 and chappie, so I’m not too hopeful.
Honestly it’s more “I’m so tired of remakes” but hey, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by movies before.
Fingers crossed its good.
I think a Blomkamp directed The Moon is a Harsh Mistress would be far more interesting
I’m a bit in two minds about this news.
I love both the novel and the movie as two separate things.
And District 9 was good, but Chappie wasn’t even a blip on my radar as what little I saw of it was cringy as hell. :/
Neil Blomkamp is like a one hit wonder director. He came from nowhere, made a banger movie, and then he’s unable to replicate the success.
He has a lot of good ideas. The problem is he isn’t a great writer, so he needs a co-writer and someone to keep him in check. The mediocre films are a result of him taking over the reigns of everything. If you haven’t yet, he has a couple of short films under Oat Studios and I think a couple of them need to be explored more and turned into full feature films. I like the premise of “Firebase” specifically.
I am as well but in a bit different way I think. I feel the movie did a good job with the general idea but of course lacked the mecha-armor drop ship type component. It would be great to do it in todays graphics. Then I look at like wheel of time and think that anything they make now will be awful and I rather just stick with the somewhat decent one we have.