Starship Troopers was a surprise hit when it released in 1997, from my own perspective it featured what I’d call a ‘TV cast’, but they were great in the wonderfully cheesy and over the top bug hunt. The movie was based on the novel by Robert A. Heinlein, but the movie felt more aesthetically like RoboCop than the novel because of the way the story was portrayed using the news footage.
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The RoboCop comparison is really no surprise since the script was written by Ed Neumeier and directed by Paul Verhoeven, who also teamed up for RoboCop. Now Neumeier’s original script for RoboCop 2 is being used as a jump off point for Neil Blomkamp’s upcoming RoboCop Returns. Speaking with HN Entertainment Neumeier was asked if he would ever consider a sequel like RoboCop Returns for Starship Troopers featuring the original cast and he revealed that there is a chance of a TV show in the works with the cast of that original movie.
“Well, I think they can. I don’t want to jinx anything, but we are talking about trying to do a television show that is based on that idea.”
I think that would work really well right now and be far cheaper to make than it would have been in the past. However, there is also a reboot movie project in the works from Sony and from what he’s heard Neumeier is less than pleased about the ideas being discussed?
”Well, I have mixed feelings about it [the reboot] because I think that what we did with the first Starship is almost not repeatable in a way…I based the structure of Starship Troopers when I was writing it, the structure of WWII propaganda films that the studios made between 1941 and 1944. We don’t really talk about those movies anymore, but that had a very particular structure and they were made during a conflict and they didn’t have an end-point as with Starship ends they’ll keep fighting. I can imagine you could do a new one that was a more serious version of the book without the political commentary, but I don’t know if that interests me that much. The spectacle of the giant creatures and the ridiculous bloodshed, all that stuff, I don’t know if in this world of CG where you can do all that stuff pretty easily seeing a bunch of creatures fighting might not interesting enough right now, for me. But other people might like it. I’m not sure, their idea is as I understood at a certain point was they said to kind of do An Officer and The Gentleman, Johnny Rico as the Officer and The Gentlemen version of a sci-fi movie. So, maybe you could do that a romantic picture about kids coming up together in the service and one of them becoming an officer and all of that means, you know. It’s really not what Heinlein’s about, but that’s okay I can imagine you could do that. I’m not sure who goes to see that movie though.”
Ed says it all himself really and there is nothing more I could really add to that. The TV show sequel sounds like good fun, the reboot from Sony sounds less so, but, it’s all about the script. Who knows, maybe Sony will pull off something unique and interesting if the movie ever goes in front of cameras?
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SOURCE: HN Entertainment
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