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Columbia Pictures is plotting a new Starship Troopers movie, setting District 9 filmmaker Neill Blomkamp to write and direct an adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel story by Robert A. Heinlein.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

I... am assuming / hoping they will just pretend all the ... basically straight to dvd sequels... do not exist.

Ok, actually read the article: It's going straight to the actual source material, the 1959 book... which... could actually be pretty interesting, there are a lot of non total parody ways you could portray that future world, and you could of course put your own spin on it and change some plot or worldlore or characters and come out with your own thing.

Blade Runner, for example... diverges fairly significantly, in many ways, from the actual book, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Of course, it could also be terrible, or mid. Who knows! But it seems more like its going to be a different attempt at adapting the book to film, not a sequel to the Veerhoven movie.

Maybe we'll get Lynch Dune, maybe we'll get Villenueve Dune, maybe we'll get SyFy channel Dune, lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 39 minutes ago

Oh God, I dread that book. Most of it takes place in a class room and it's a long diatribe about how you shouldn't be allowed to vote if you haven't served. Most of the characters have prosthetic limbs and boast about their sacrifices but the absurdity of the whole situation seems to allude the author. This film is going to be terrible if Neil Blomkamp writes it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

I just finished that book a while ago, and I’ve read a ton of Heinlein’s work. It would be interesting to see it put on the big screen in something more true to the book, but I gotta admit that I really like the movie too.