Starship Troopers Reboot.

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The cult classic Starship Troopers is getting a reboot.

A brand new take on the military-themed science fiction franchise is being developed by Fast & Furious producer Neal H. Moritz and Columbia Pictures, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

This reboot of Starship Troopers will not connect to Paul Verhoeven's 1997 gruesome cult classic, rather it will take its cues directly from author Robert A Heinlein's original 1959 novel.

http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a813062/strap-in-starship-troopers-and-its-giant-alien-bugs-are-being-rebooted/

endacl

Has Hollywood finished rebooting all the mediocre films already? Time to move on to the crap ones?

When's the last time they had a new idea over there...?

Roar

endacl wrote: »

Has Hollywood finished rebooting all the mediocre films already? Time to move on to the crap ones?

When's the last time they had a new idea over there...?

You take that back!! Starship Troopers is brilliant.

The sequels, not so much

Would you like to know more?

dudara

Starship Troopers is a great film - Verhoeven made that film as a great satire on fascism, war and jingoism.

Can't see how a modern reboot would carry those themes forward?

beauf

It doesn't sound like this reboot will be great....

Loved the first one and the book.

Optimalprimerib

If it is reboot, I guarantee it will be Pg-13, instantly diluting the reason the original was so good.

Engine No.9

I was only telling one of my younger colleagues about this film in work tonight. Such a great film. Johnny Rico was a great character. And it has Hank from Breaking Bad in it. What more could you want??? Maybe the doc from CSI in a wheelchair with no legs coz he really doesn't have any... Oh yeah, its got that too. NPH? Check! Denise Richards? Check! Clancy Brown.... Everything necessary to make a great film. I'm gonna throw it on now. Thanks Boards.

I met Patrick Muldoon when I was a teenager. Nice guy.

Starship Troopers was a fantastic movie, just because it went all in.

Owryan

Well if it's closer to the original source material then it won't be a really that similar to the first film.

From memory there was very little the book and film had in common. Similar to WWZ in that the film took the book title and the basic premise and went in a totally different direction.

Owryan

Owryan wrote: »

Well if it's closer to the original source material then it won't be a really that similar to the first film.

From memory there was very little the book and film had in common. Similar to WWZ in that the film took the book title and the basic premise and went in a totally different direction.

Same with Children of Men.

From what I remember, the director of that movie heard the basic concept - women not being able to have babies - and refused to read the source material, as he felt it would damage his own vision.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. :pac:

Though I've always felt like the first 2/3 of WWZ was an excellent Zombie movie. It was only in the final 1/3, where you can see where the production nightmare started to happen, that it just fell apart.

Harika

Funnily the movie had not really much to do with the book anyway or completely opposites it. So there is potential to develop a movie out of it, that is not too close to the first movie, but overall it would mean less action and more philosophy what is already counteracted by the appointment of a Fast & Furious producer. Denis Villeneuve would have been a better choice imo.

kneemos

Saw a sequel,it was filmed mostly in the dark,absolute dross.
The original was a good old romp though.

Balmed Out

I cant think of a movie which had people leaving cinemas with such different reactions. Some thought it was crap, others a good action film and some one of the funniest films they had ever seen. I laughed throughout, thought it was fantastic.

Bacchus

kneemos wrote: »

Saw a sequel,it was filmed mostly in the dark,absolute dross.
The original was a good old romp though.

The 3rd one is a bit of a return to the style and scale of the original but still nowhere near as good as it and features some truly awful CGI.

Mitch Connor

Bacchus wrote: »

The 3rd one is a bit of a return to the style and scale of the original but still nowhere near as good as it and features some truly awful CGI.

The mech robot suit things at the end..... Good lord...

TerrorFirmer

3rd one is sort of half decent but it's let down by atrocious special effects that look like they're from an early 90's TV show. 2nd one is the opposite, excellent effects but an overall bad movie. Then, there was also Starship Troopers: Invasion, which was a bit of a snooze fest.

I think in this case reboot isn't really the best word, as the 1997 film is nothing like the original book, so a new Starship Troopers would be unrecognizable and share very little in common with the first movie except the basic elements - Johnny Rico as protagonist, the idea of Citizenship and society, etc.

The Roughnecks TV show had more in common with the book than the 1997 film and is what I'd expect the new version to be like. Rather than a gruesome, tongue in cheek exploitation satire, I'd say they'll go for a Star Trek/Star Wars style sci-fi blockbuster approach.

Which is fine by me, original film is there for everyone to enjoy and I'd love to see a faithful adaption of the book even if the 1997 film is possibly my favorite movie ever.

Apart from the name, the movies might as well belong to different franchises if the newer one is even half-based on the book.

beauf

kneemos wrote: »

Saw a sequel,it was filmed mostly in the dark,absolute dross.
The original was a good old romp though.

Yeah looked like it was filmed in someones shed.

Rezident

Roar wrote: »

You take that back!! Starship Troopers is brilliant.

The sequels, not so much

Would you like to know more?

Starship Troopers was epic. Nothing else like it.

lazybones32

The only disappointment I had with S.T. was that the DVD extras were poor iirc. I was hoping they would have more info on the "Would you like to know more?" segments from the film...I thought that would be cool - to add more meat to it.

And I definitely remember yer one with the curly hair having nice boobs.

BoJack Horseman

I remember an animated show from years ago that was great....

Also.... anyone else play this old game from 16 years ago?



Anyway would happily watch a reboot once it remained a tongue-in-cheek 18s-rated..... which it won't be.

RDM_83 again

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

I think in this case reboot isn't really the best word, as the 1997 film is nothing like the original book, so a new Starship Troopers would be unrecognizable and share very little in common with the first movie except the basic elements - Johnny Rico as protagonist, the idea of Citizenship and society, etc.

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Which is fine by me, original film is there for everyone to enjoy and I'd love to see a faithful adaption of the book even if the 1997 film is possibly my favorite movie ever.

Apart from the name, the movies might as well belong to different franchises if the newer one is even half-based on the book.

While I get where your coming from I'm not sure that they can make a film of this thats close to the books message in todays polarized political climate.
The whole weak vs strong, duties of the citizen, militarism being portrayed positively would cause a sh-tstorm of unimaginable proportions.
Actually forget all that if they have the balls to go all out on it the film might cause a hell of a lot of controversy and free publicity but attract a lot of viewers at the same time.
On a serious note about those themes Starship troopers shouldn't be looked at on its own, the author examined other governmental types in futuristic settings in other works so its not just an blind endorsement of militarism.

On the original film, this was the film that really started my slow disdain for film critics, if myself as a teenage boy could see that a lot of it mocking the jingoism of many holywood films and that its literally a propaganda moview how did all those critics miss it That being said its still a very good propaganda movie, who wouldn't want to join the Mobile Infantry I would have loved to have seen what Paul Verhoeven would have done if he had to direct a real propaganda film

Read this dreck from apparently one of the best reviewers ever :mad:

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/starship-troopers-1997

AMKC

Loved StarShip Troopers. How could you not it had lots of action was funny and cool special effects and ships plus scary ass alien bugs. Was the first film that I went to see twice in the cinema too. Have also seen 2 and 3 and ye they are no where near as good as the first one. Have not seen Starship Troopers Invasion do but it was on Syfy recently so might be again. Don,t think I will be in any hurry to see it do.
Don,t mind that they are redoing it if the reboot is totally different and if they try to put some Star Trek style philosophy into it then even better. The director does not really inspire confidence do being associated with The Fast and The Furious he might just want to go for all action big bangs and very little story. Hope he proves us all wrong and makes a good movie.