In 1997, director Paul Verhoeven and screenwriter Edward Neumeier, the 1987 “Robocop” creators, returned to create the Starship Troopers, a satirical admission to Robert A. Heinlein’s 1959 novel. The Starship Troopers take place in the future, where the Earth has been in war with a giant, intelligent insects from a far planet for many decades. Human society, however, has become the condition of the fascists, and all people have become an empty head, fist -pumping propaganda vehicles. The media have become the size of the bite and your face. It is no coincidence that all people wear very Nazis -like uniforms after the end of the movie.
The Starship Troopers were not fully appreciated in 1997. It mainly received negative reviews, and many critics do not seem to receive their most satirical elements. It was also just a modest hit, earning $ 121 million out of $ 100 million (significant). Since then, however, it has found its audience by distributing home video and midnight movie circle. Its critical revaluation has found many, calling it one of the best sci-fi films for a decade. Many believe that they can now place “star troops” alongside Robocop.
The film triggered the animation series adaptation, two direct and video sequels in 2004 and 2005 (both wrote Neumeier) and two anime spin-offs from 2012 and 2017. It has never been a lucrative franchise – DTV films were made for just a few million dollars each – but people with love are reminiscent of the 1997 film.
So it can happen: Hollywood reporter Says Neil Blomkamp, Director of “District 9”, “Chappie” and “Gran Turismo”, will create a new version of the movie “Starship Troopers”. His goal is to customize Heinlein’s original novel and not always redo Verhoeven’s film.
Neil Blomkamp does not want to redo the star ship troops and instead will re -adapt the novel
The original novel of Heinlein is extremely different from the adaptation of Verhoeven. Heinlein gave much of his book to dialogue, mainly dedicated to military philosophy. Although open to interpretation, Heinlein’s book seems very large to have a combat text. On the other hand, Verhoeven’s film is massive violent, highly based on the storyline and has several extended combat sequences in which hundreds of bullets are fired. Indeed, it breached the record for the number of bullets fired in the American movie. It is a very clear lamping militaristic thinking and depiction of what happens when militant thinking takes over national ethics.
If the Blomkamp is taken to his name, his new “Starship Troopers” will be talkative and thoughtful. Regardless of whether it is war or anti -war is, it will depend on how he interprets Heinlein’s novel and how he makes his own film.
This is not the first time Blomkamp announced that he has wanted to redo the beloved SCI-Fi classic. Back in 2015, Blomkamp released the art of the movie “Alien” film concept He wanted to make. His concept, however, was to ignore “alien events3“” Alien: Resurrection “and” Prometheus “, and make a direct sequel to James Cameron’s 1986” alien “. Basically,” aliens 2 “This project collapsed. 2018, 2018, 2018, 2018, 2018, 2018, 2018, 2018, 2018, 2018, 2018, 2018 It was announced that he would make “Robocop” In his idiom (which he already did with “Chappie”, another robot movie). This film would also ignore existing sequels and follow the original 1987. This movie also collapsed.
Time will tell if the Blomkampa “Starship Troopers” is actually made because his achievements in rebooties are very bad. If this happens, fans may want to see if it will beat Verhoeen’s extremely violent mistake massacre or whether it will be more thoughtful than it.
