• Starship Troopers reboot in the works
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[url]http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/starship-troopers-reboot-works-943882[/url] [quote]The bugs are coming back. Columbia Pictures is rebooting Starship Troopers, the 1997 sci-fi film directed by Paul Verhoeven. The studio has tapped Mark Swift and Damian Shannon, the writing duo behind the upcoming Baywatch movie, to pen the script for a new theatrical feature film that would relaunch a potential franchise. Neal H. Moritz, the producer behind the Fast & Furious franchise, is producing with Toby Jaffe, with whom he worked on the studio's remake of another 1990s sci-fi pic, Total Recall... ...The studio is not remaking the film but is said to be going back to the original Heinlein novel for an all-new take. No personnel from the 1997 film are involved. Matthew Milam is overseeing for the studio. Shannon and Swift, who also wrote 2009's remake of Friday the 13th, are repped by UTA and McKuin Frankel.[/quote] ...
Do not want.
[QUOTE]The bugs are coming back. Columbia Pictures is rebooting Starship Troopers, the 1997 sci-fi film directed by Paul Verhoeven. The studio has tapped [b]Mark Swift and Damian Shannon, the writing duo behind the upcoming Baywatch movie[/b], to pen the script for a new theatrical feature film that would relaunch a potential franchise. Neal H. Moritz, the producer behind the Fast & Furious franchise, is producing with [b]Toby Jaffe, with whom he worked on the studio's remake of another 1990s sci-fi pic, Total Recall...[/b] ...The studio is not remaking the film but is said to be going back to the original Heinlein novel for an all-new take. No personnel from the 1997 film are involved. Matthew Milam is overseeing for the studio. [b]Shannon and Swift, who also wrote 2009's remake of Friday the 13th[/b], are repped by UTA and McKuin Frankel.[/QUOTE] Seriously just stop, nobody cares.
Perhaps it will have some actual semblance to the book this time?
can we make a remake/reboot repellent spray too
The only way I will accept this is if it is closer to the book.
remake would be bad but a new adaptation of the book would be interesting
[QUOTE=Worstcase;51309954]Perhaps it will have some actual semblance to the book this time?[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Wikipedia]Because the movie originated from an unrelated script, with names and superficial details from the novel being added retroactively, there are many differences between the original book and the film. While the original novel has been accused of promoting militarism, fascism and military rule,the film satirizes these concepts by featuring news reports that are intensely fascist, xenophobic, and propagandistic. Verhoeven stated in 1997 that the first scene of the film—an advertisement for the mobile infantry—was adapted shot-for-shot from a scene in Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will (1935), specifically an outdoor rally for the Reichsarbeitsdienst. Other references to Nazism in the movie include the Gestapo-like uniforms of commanding officers, Albert Speer-style architecture and the propagandistic dialogue. (Violence is the supreme authority!) In a 2014 interview on The Adam Carolla Show, actor Michael Ironside, who read the book as a youth, said he asked Verhoeven, who grew up in Nazi-occupied Netherlands, "Why are you doing a right-wing fascist movie?" Verhoeven replied, "If I tell the world that a right-wing, fascist way of doing things doesn't work, no one will listen to me. So I'm going to make a perfect fascist world: everyone is beautiful, everything is shiny, everything has big guns and fancy ships, but it's only good for killing fucking bugs!" Likewise, the powered armor technology that is not only central to the book but became a standard subgenre of science-fiction thereafter, is completely absent in the movie, where the characters use World War II-technology weapons and wear light combat gear little more advanced than that. According to Verhoeven, this—and the fascist tone of the book—reflected his own experience in Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II.[/QUOTE]
One of my favorite movies of all time. I welcome a reboot, because it can't change the original movie, and there's a chance it could actually be good. Just look at SST3, it was made with what appeared to be the technology and budget of a Jimmy Neutron episode and it showed, I'd gladly welcome a new take on the universe.
[QUOTE=Splarg!;51309971].[/QUOTE] I've always thought it incredible that Starship Troopers the novel and Starship Troopers the movie are both fantastic and yet both quite different from one another.
Well, let's see how this works out.
what did we do to deserve all these reboots
I think I'm holding in my butthole for this one, because I'm not that optimistic.
[QUOTE=TornadoAP;51309894][url]http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/starship-troopers-reboot-works-943882[/url] ...[/QUOTE] Nobody asked for this.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;51310051]I've always thought it incredible that Starship Troopers the novel and Starship Troopers the movie are both fantastic and yet both quite different from one another.[/QUOTE] I just thought it was funny because I guarantee that they're trying to simultaneously capitalize on the name from the first movie and one up it by being "closer to the book" like they did with total recall. Also holy shit I didn't realize so many people were in that remake [QUOTE]Colin Farrell Kate Beckinsale Jessica Biel Bryan Cranston Bill Nighy John Cho [/QUOTE]
One of those movies that can never catch the originals charm. It's a movie of its time.
It might be good if the director actually reads the book, the guy who made the first ST movie said after 2 chapters he refused to read the book because it "depressed him" And then we got a shitty parody of a great work of science fiction.
The original movie still holds up even if the visual effects are obvious. I'd prefer this reboot be closer to the book since we don't need two of the same movie.
This one goes out to all the producers pushing reboots: [video=youtube;7eJBq8zMdIY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eJBq8zMdIY[/video]
[QUOTE=Raidyr;51310051]I've always thought it incredible that Starship Troopers the novel and Starship Troopers the movie are both fantastic and yet both quite different from one another.[/QUOTE] I'm still amazed the novel came out in 1959 and yet still reads out as a modern piece. Like 1984 in a strange way.
[QUOTE=Splarg!;51310109]I just thought it was funny because I guarantee that they're trying to simultaneously capitalize on the name from the first movie and one up it by being "closer to the book" like they did with total recall. Also holy shit I didn't realize so many people were in that remake[/QUOTE] Honestly that sounds like a perfect cast, though NPH should make an appearance. jesus fucking automerge christ
[QUOTE=Megadave;51310158]Honestly that sounds like a perfect cast, though NPH should make an appearance. jesus fucking automerge christ[/QUOTE] That's the cast of the Total Recall remake
Nobody asked for this. The reason I found it amazing is because it was B-Movie fun to laugh with in all it's cheese. Modern day cheesy films just don't work.
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;51310185]Nobody asked for this. The reason I found it amazing is because it was B-Movie fun to laugh with in all it's cheese. Modern day cheesy films just don't work.[/QUOTE] Maybe they'll work in the future when we can look back and laugh at how the movies are nothing but visual effects
[QUOTE=Worstcase;51309954]Perhaps it will have some actual semblance to the book this time?[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Megadave;51309964]The only way I will accept this is if it is closer to the book.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Akuma_lektro;51309966]remake would be bad but a new adaptation of the book would be interesting[/QUOTE] Starship Troopers is a plotless, characterless manifesto on military doctrine and political theory and would be an unwatchable mess if it were accurately adapted to the screen. And even if that weren't true, the film industry would never do it because the only reason they're reviving the property is nostalgia for the cheeseball 90s movie.
[QUOTE=Worstcase;51309954]Perhaps it will have some actual semblance to the book this time?[/QUOTE] That's what made the movie great. The guys making the movie read the book and were like this is ridiculous, trying to be serious and this blindly patriotic. So he just satirized it with over the top nationalism and shit and it turned out great
[QUOTE=Johnny Joe;51310130]It might be good if the director actually reads the book, the guy who made the first ST movie said after 2 chapters he refused to read the book because it "depressed him" And then we got a shitty parody of a great work of science fiction.[/QUOTE] that's pretty fucking dumb the movie turn, out alright but still
I liked the book and the film, but would rather this reboot didn't happen. I don't see how the book could be made into a profitable, enjoyable movie.
[QUOTE=Duskin;51310398]I liked the book and the film, but would rather this reboot didn't happen. I don't see how the book could be made into a profitable, enjoyable movie.[/QUOTE] I'd think something like a Full Metal Jacket setting.
Oh great, a movie that doesn't need a damn reboot. It actually needs proper sequel with director who has same fun/great vision as Paul Verhoeven had. Oh and screw the Book version.
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