The District 9 director is preparing a new Troopers starship
Neill Blomkamp will write and direct a new version, 30 years after Paul Verhoeven.
Thirty years later, the SF experience of Paul Verhoeven There remains a reference in the matter. Starship Troopers is always one of the most clever extraterrestrial war films that have ever been filmed.
You should know that the Dutch filmmaker was inspired by the 1959 novel, written by Robert A. Heinlein. And Neill Blomkamp will follow suit. The South African director is preparing a new Starship Troopersthat he will write and direct on behalf of Columbia Pictures.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, it will not be a direct remake of Verhoeven’s film, but “The objective is to return to the source of the original equipment. “So a more direct adaptation of the 1959 novel.
The details concerning the plot remain secret for the moment.
But obviously, Neill Blomkamp is a novice of the aliens in the cinema, he who had amazed for his beginnings in 2009 with District 9four times appointed to the Oscars (including best film). He then made Elysium in 2013 and Chappie In 2015, before directing Demonic in 2021. His latest film was Gran Turismo (2023).
No release date exists yet for this new film Starship Troopers.
It should be noted that the Starship Troopers Original had been followed by two live-to-Video live suites: Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004) and Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008).
