A reboot of 'Starship Troopers' is in the works at Sony, with 'District 9' and 'Chappie' director Neill Blomkamp attached to helm.

A reboot of ‘Starship Troopers’ is in the works at Sony, with ‘District 9’ and ‘Chappie’ director Neill Blomkamp attached to helm.

  • jaycifer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    11 hours ago

    With Blomkamp working on it, I’m interested. I wonder if he will try to recreate the satire of the Verhoeven movie, follow the book more closely, or try to compare/reconcile the two. I hope it’s the last one, or at least not just a retread of the Verhoeven movie since that still holds up on its own.

    Edit: I wish I’d read the article before posting (:/) because it sounds like they’re going for a more faithful rendition of the book! As someone whose ideals were influenced by the book’s themes of political responsibility, I am cautiously optimistic.

  • Fleur_@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
    7·
    12 hours ago

    You know as crazy as it sounds I think they might actually go too obvious with the satire given the current political climate. It’s strange because the original was so blatantly satirical yet people still didn’t get it. Regardless I don’t think it will be as funny, I did like district 9 though so who knows

    • Artyom@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      10 hours ago

      After watching The Boys, I’m convinced you can never be too blunt with the right. If you do anything subtle, it’ll always go right over their head.

  • qyron@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    121·
    15 hours ago

    I respect this guy’s work. District 9 is a goid movie. Gran Turismo was very enjoyable to watch. Then there is Chappy and Elisium, which hit hard as well.

    I’ve read the book. I’ve seen the original movie.

    Considering the track record of the man, I want to risk conditions are met for a good movie to be created. I seriously doubt it will be agreeable to everyone, considering the book deals heavily with fascism and authoritarianism.

    If we get a good action film with a very hard undertone of social and political critique, we’ll be very fortunate.

    • jagermo@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      11 hours ago

      Perfect time for it, Verhoeven touched on it,bit was too subtle for most (I mean, Carls uniform in the end ia anything but…)

      I’m actually looking forward to it.

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
      4·
      13 hours ago

      He seems to have similar politics to Verhoeven, so I’m sure it’ll be the same kind of science fiction satire.

    • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
      315·
      8 hours ago

      I don’t think starship troopers is remembered very fondly, so he’s got lots of space to work with.

      Edit: it’s cool everybody, I get that I’m wrong. I just haven’t seen it since I was a kid and haven’t met anybody IRL that remembers the movie positively.

  • then_three_more@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    13 hours ago

    Colour me interested.

    It’ll be interesting to see if any elements from the book actually make it into this one.