Starship Troopers Reboot is happening

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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

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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.

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"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.

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"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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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