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Based on the original 1959 book rather than a "remake" of the 1997 movie.



New Starship Troopers Movie
From District 9 & Chappie Director Neill Blomkamp in the Works
--------------------------------------------------------------
A new Starship Troopers movie is in the works.

The original Starship Troopers, based on the 1959 novel by
Robert A. Heinlein, was released in 1997. Directed by Paul
Verhoeven, the satirical sci-fi movie stars Casper Van Dien
as Johnny Rico, Dina Meyer as Dizzy Flores, Denise Richards
as Carmen Ibanez, Jake Busey as Ace Levy, Neil Patrick Harris
as Carl Jenkins, and Clancy Brown as Sergeant Zim.

Neill Blomkamp is now set to write and direct a new Starship
Troopers movie, per The Hollywood Reporter, for Columbia
Pictures.


What do we know about the new Starship Troopers movie from
Neill Blomkamp?
Blomkamp's movie won't be a direct remake of the Verhoeven film;
rather, The Hollywood Reporter reports that "the goal is to go
back to the source material."

Further plot details remain under wraps at this time. Blomkamp
will also serve as a producer on the film alongside his wife,
Terri Tatchell.

Blomkamp made his feature film directorial debut in 2009 with
District 9, which received four Academy Award nominations,
including Best Picture. He followed that up with 2013's Elysium
and 2015's Chappie before making Demonic in 2021.

His most recent movie was 2023's Gran Turismo, which is based on
the racing video game series developed by Polyphony Digital. He
was also working on an Alien movie for a time that was shelved
and ultimately canceled after Ridley Scott decided to make 2017's
Alien: Covenant.

A release date for the new Starship Troopers movie has not yet
been announced.

The original Starship Troopers, meanwhile, is currently available
to stream on Amazon Prime Video. That movie was followed by two
direct-to-video sequels: 2004's Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the
Federation and 2008's Starship Troopers 3: Marauder. There have
also been two animated movies, 2012's Starship Troopers: Invasion
and 2017's Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars, and other related
media, such as television shows, video games, and more.



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On 3/14/2025 5:48 PM, Your Name wrote:

Based on the original 1959 book rather than a "remake" of the 1997 movie.

-a-a New Starship Troopers Movie
-a-a From District 9 & Chappie Director Neill Blomkamp in the Works
-a-a --------------------------------------------------------------
-a-a A new Starship Troopers movie is in the works.

-a-a The original Starship Troopers, based on the 1959 novel by
-a-a Robert A. Heinlein, was released in 1997. Directed by Paul
-a-a Verhoeven, the satirical sci-fi movie stars Casper Van Dien
-a-a as Johnny Rico, Dina Meyer as Dizzy Flores, Denise Richards
-a-a as Carmen Ibanez, Jake Busey as Ace Levy, Neil Patrick Harris
-a-a as Carl Jenkins, and Clancy Brown as Sergeant Zim.

-a-a Neill Blomkamp is now set to write and direct a new Starship
-a-a Troopers movie, per The Hollywood Reporter, for Columbia
-a-a Pictures.

-a-a What do we know about the new Starship Troopers movie from
-a-a Neill Blomkamp?
-a-a Blomkamp's movie won't be a direct remake of the Verhoeven film;
-a-a rather, The Hollywood Reporter reports that "the goal is to go
-a-a back to the source material."

-a-a Further plot details remain under wraps at this time. Blomkamp
-a-a will also serve as a producer on the film alongside his wife,
-a-a Terri Tatchell.

-a-a Blomkamp made his feature film directorial debut in 2009 with
-a-a District 9, which received four Academy Award nominations,
-a-a including Best Picture. He followed that up with 2013's Elysium
-a-a and 2015's Chappie before making Demonic in 2021.

-a-a His most recent movie was 2023's Gran Turismo, which is based on
-a-a the racing video game series developed by Polyphony Digital. He
-a-a was also working on an Alien movie for a time that was shelved
-a-a and ultimately canceled after Ridley Scott decided to make 2017's
-a-a Alien: Covenant.

-a-a A release date for the new Starship Troopers movie has not yet
-a-a been announced.

-a-a The original Starship Troopers, meanwhile, is currently available
-a-a to stream on Amazon Prime Video. That movie was followed by two
-a-a direct-to-video sequels: 2004's Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the
-a-a Federation and 2008's Starship Troopers 3: Marauder. There have
-a-a also been two animated movies, 2012's Starship Troopers: Invasion
-a-a and 2017's Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars, and other related
-a-a media, such as television shows, video games, and more.

<https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1938194-starship-troopers-movie- district-9-chappie-neill-blomkamp>

What made the '97 one special was Verhoeven's DNA ...any hint of which
we are promised this new one will take great pains to jettison.


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In article <vr29di$24f1l$1@dont-email.me>,
moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 3/14/2025 5:48 PM, Your Name wrote:

Based on the original 1959 book rather than a "remake" of the 1997 movie.

...
...

<https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1938194-starship-troopers-movie-
district-9-chappie-neill-blomkamp>

What made the '97 one special was Verhoeven's DNA ...any hint of which
we are promised this new one will take great pains to jettison.

Or they could try actually adapting the book...
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What's not in Columbia anymore..
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On 2025-03-14 22:15:48 +0000, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan said:

In article <vr29di$24f1l$1@dont-email.me>,
moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 3/14/2025 5:48 PM, Your Name wrote:

Based on the original 1959 book rather than a "remake" of the 1997 movie.

...
...

<https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1938194-starship-troopers-movie- >>> district-9-chappie-neill-blomkamp>

What made the '97 one special was Verhoeven's DNA ...any hint of which
we are promised this new one will take great pains to jettison.

Or they could try actually adapting the book...

The article does say:
Blomkamp's movie won't be a direct remake of the Verhoeven film;
rather, The Hollywood Reporter reports that "the goal is to go
back to the source material."

:-)

How true that is and what ridiculous changes Blomkamp makes to suit his
own ego and ideas of what it "should" be are entirely different
questions though.

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On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 10:48:46 +1300, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
wrote:

Based on the original 1959 book rather than a "remake" of the 1997 movie.

New Starship Troopers Movie
From District 9 & Chappie Director Neill Blomkamp in the Works
--------------------------------------------------------------
A new Starship Troopers movie is in the works.

The original Starship Troopers, based on the 1959 novel by
Robert A. Heinlein, was released in 1997. Directed by Paul
Verhoeven, the satirical sci-fi movie stars Casper Van Dien
as Johnny Rico, Dina Meyer as Dizzy Flores, Denise Richards
as Carmen Ibanez, Jake Busey as Ace Levy, Neil Patrick Harris
as Carl Jenkins, and Clancy Brown as Sergeant Zim.

For some meaning of "satirical" unknown to me.
Many Verhoeven films are worth not only seeing but owning on DVD.
Some, like this one and /Katje Tippel/, may be worth seeing, but, once
seen, need never be seen again.
Others, whose very names I do not recall, are very bad indeed.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"
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On 3/14/2025 6:15 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <vr29di$24f1l$1@dont-email.me>,
moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 3/14/2025 5:48 PM, Your Name wrote:

Based on the original 1959 book rather than a "remake" of the 1997 movie. >>>

...
...

<https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1938194-starship-troopers-movie- >>> district-9-chappie-neill-blomkamp>

What made the '97 one special was Verhoeven's DNA ...any hint of which
we are promised this new one will take great pains to jettison.

Or they could try actually adapting the book...

Well, indeed, I should probably withhold comment before reading it...


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Paul S Person wrote:

Your Name wrote:

Based on the original 1959 book rather than a "remake" of the 1997 movie.

New Starship Troopers Movie
From District 9 & Chappie Director Neill Blomkamp in the Works
--------------------------------------------------------------
A new Starship Troopers movie is in the works.

The original Starship Troopers, based on the 1959 novel by
Robert A. Heinlein, was released in 1997. Directed by Paul
Verhoeven, the satirical sci-fi movie stars Casper Van Dien
as Johnny Rico, Dina Meyer as Dizzy Flores, Denise Richards
as Carmen Ibanez, Jake Busey as Ace Levy, Neil Patrick Harris
as Carl Jenkins, and Clancy Brown as Sergeant Zim.

For some meaning of "satirical" unknown to me.

Many Verhoeven films are worth not only seeing but owning on DVD.

Some, like this one and /Katje Tippel/, may be worth seeing, but, once
seen, need never be seen again.

Others, whose very names I do not recall, are very bad indeed.

Barsoom Postcards pokes polemic people:

Thoughts on thirty years of memetic skirmishing over the meaning of Starship Troopers

...
The debate goes something like this:

Leftists: "You chuds are clearly too stupid to realize that
the movie was a satire! The Terran Federation are obviously
the bad guys! The bugs are good boys who dindu nuffin! The
asteroid attack on Buenos Aires was clearly a false flag so
the fascist imperalists of the Terran Federation could have
an excuse to invade the innocent bugs and take their planet!
You guys are too stupid to understand basic media literacy!"

To which rightists respond, as we are wont, with memes:

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You might infer from this that the right is media illiterate.
If so, you would be a midwit. What this demonstrates is, in
fact, an effortlessly instinctive high mastery of media
literacy, one that transcends the leftrCOs increasingly
ineffectual narrative control.

The argument the left always advances in this case is that,
because Verhoeven intended his movie as a satire of fascism,
any use of symbolism from the movie for rightist ends is ipso
facto a misapplication, and evidence that the rightist user
was too stupid to understand the actual meaning of the film.

What is actually happening is simply that the right has used
memes to appropriate the meaning of the film, and alter it
towards its own ends. This is fair game because this is
precisely what Verhoeven did in the first place. Verhoeven
didnrCOt so much ignore as invert the authorial intent,
presenting a twisted version of HeinleinrCOs narrative in order
to make the story say what Verhoeven wanted it to say, which
was the opposite of what Heinlein himself was saying. In
effect he wrapped a creative work composed in one form of
media in a second form of media, which he used to invert the
meaning of the original, like flipping an image upside down
by sending the light through a lens. The right then simply
wrapped VerhoevenrCOs film in a third layer of media rCo memes rCo
and used this to invert the filmrCOs meaning. In doing so, the
right actually restored the original authorial intent: by
subverting VerhoevenrCOs subversion, HeinleinrCOs intended meaning
is once again made clear. ...

(excerpt)

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Danke,

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In article <vr29di$24f1l$1@dont-email.me>,
moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

What made the '97 one special was Verhoeven's DNA ...any hint of which
we are promised this new one will take great pains to jettison.

For certain definitions of the word "special".

I hope all traces of Verhoven's slander of Heinlein are jettisoned,
preferrably into a black hole.
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On 4/3/2025 11:55 PM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:

In article <vr29di$24f1l$1@dont-email.me>,
moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

What made the '97 one special was Verhoeven's DNA ...any hint of which
we are promised this new one will take great pains to jettison.

For certain definitions of the word "special".

I hope all traces of Verhoeven's slander of Heinlein are jettisoned, preferably into a black hole.

Verhoeven wasn't hired to make a Heinlein tribute. And, no, this new
effort certainly shouldn't try to copy what he DID make...


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On 2025-04-04 14:59:26 +0000, moviePig said:

On 4/3/2025 11:55 PM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:

In article <vr29di$24f1l$1@dont-email.me>,
moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

What made the '97 one special was Verhoeven's DNA ...any hint of which
we are promised this new one will take great pains to jettison.

For certain definitions of the word "special".

I hope all traces of Verhoeven's slander of Heinlein are jettisoned,
preferably into a black hole.

Verhoeven wasn't hired to make a Heinlein tribute. And, no, this new
effort certainly shouldn't try to copy what he DID make...

The original article did say the new version is going back to the
source material, the original book ... but it *is* Hollyweird, so the
people making the new movie *will* undoubtedly make all sorts of
ridiculous changes to suit their own over-bloated egos for how they
think it "should have" been written. :-\


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