movies Starship Troopers Reboot is happening

[Rappy Veteran]

According to the producer, they are aiming for a less violent take on the story.

In an interview with Empire, Toby Jaffe said: "The more expensive a film is, the harder it is now to make it that violent. With Recall in particular, we made a conscious choice to keep it tonally closer to something like Minority Report. It gives the studio, and us as producers, the opportunity to reintroduce it in a new way."

What is cool, however, is that Jaffe menionts the "jump suits" featured in Robert Heinlein's book: "Working in a visual-efects renaissance as we are, we have the ability to do so much more now. We can do the Jump Suits [armoured exoskeletons from Heinlein's novel], for example, which I don't think they could have done before."

No word on a release date or director but Thor and X-Men: First Class screenwriters Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz have written the script.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=92000

[Phouchg]

Unless they intend to make it faithful to the book (which I don't think would actually make a good movie as it doesn't have the necessary blockbuster-movie tropes), I see no need. In short, I see no need whatsoever. Of course, I'm a hypocritical oldfag on new reboots, while at the same time I like my generation reboots, so...

And I also loathe that Invasion CGI thing. I think.

[+Warwagon MVC]

Why are they rebooting it? The original is a ****ing classic!

[Razorwing]

Seriously, this did not need a reboot.

[Alladaskill17]

First thought upon seeing article title: "oh no..."

[redvamp128]

Oh no--

And Hollywood while you are at it....

Why not remake -

1962 The Longest Day , but less violent ...

[DJD]

Oh God no :pinch:

[Rappy Veteran]

[Albert]

the original was a smart mock-war-propaganda movie. just leave it at that, hollywood.

[TechJunkie81]

The original was effing awesome.  Reboot not needed.

[HawkMan]

Less violence... And that tweet. It sounds less and less interesting by the minutes

[GotBored]

Original movie was good, but part 2 was terrible.

 

Original was an sci-fi action movie though, I don't see why they want to get rid of some action..

[MFH]

Another brilliant Verhoeven movie getting a reboot just for the heck of it - gonna ignore this one just like I ignore that the unnecessary Robocop and Total Recall remakes?

BTW: they plan to stay closer to the book? Good luck with that?

[GotBored]

"The more expensive a film is, the harder it is now to make it that violent. With Recall in particular, we made a conscious choice to keep it tonally closer to something like Minority Report"

 

Didn't Total Recall remake flop? I don't remember it being a box-office success.. Maybe it was because it was less violent than the original.

[TechJunkie81]

"The more expensive a film is, the harder it is now to make it that violent. With Recall in particular, we made a conscious choice to keep it tonally closer to something like Minority Report"

 

Didn't Total Recall remake flop? I don't remember it being a box-office success.. Maybe it was because it was less violent than the original.

It had a budget of 125 Million and had a box office of 198 million.  Financially it wasn't a flop but did have a lot of negative reviews.

[The Evil Overlord]

I started watching my aliens box set, and was thinking about this, I'll watch it just for the sake of it.

[sorlag]

Why do they mess up all top classic movies with reboots?

I like Starship Troopers 1... but...

Starship Troopers 2, Starship Troopers 3, Starship Troopers Invasion and Starship Troopers Chronicles all where really bad...

And which remake was really a good movie?

[Lord Method Man]

It had a budget of 125 Million and had a box office of 198 million.  Financially it wasn't a flop but did have a lot of negative reviews.

 

Production budgets don't include marketing costs (which can run in the tens of millions of dollars for even a modest campaign) so its probably safe to say it was a flop.

[Growled Member]

Why do they mess up all top classic movies with reboots?

 

 

Money. They probably feel that the movie has a built in fan base that will come and see the movie no matter what. With something totally new you don't have that. 

[Anthony Tosie Veteran]

I'd actually love to see an adaptation closer to the novel, which was brilliant. Paul Verhoeven's version was great on its own merits obviously, but the novel was fantastic.

[McKay]

[ichi]

Money. They probably feel that the movie has a built in fan base that will come and see the movie no matter what. With something totally new you don't have that. 

 

But they could take the fan base from a different medium instead of something that has already been taken to the cinema (with success, no less). Like, say, a decent and faithful movie adaptation of Sandman. Or Neuromancer. 

 

Heck, I'd bet if they decided to make a movie based on a William Gibson book they'd just go with a frigging remake of Johnny Mnemonic.

[Rappy Veteran]

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