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Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 4:40 pm
by GORDON
http://io9.com/5864597....roopers
Vulture is reporting that Sony Pictures producer Neal Moritz has hired screenwriters Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz to pen a Starship Troopers remake.
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 4:42 pm
by Troy
I hope they keep it serious and gritty like the original
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 9:28 pm
by Malcolm
Troy wrote:I hope they keep it serious and gritty like the original
If they get Jake Busey to reprise his criminally overlooked performance in that movie, I'm sold.
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Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2014 12:46 pm
by TPRJones
Maybe they should try to make it have at least a passing resemblance to the book instead of basing it on this unforgivable turd of a movie that serves as the perfect example of how to best shit all over your source material.
Unlikely, I know, but I can dream, can't I?
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 10:29 pm
by GORDON
These guys say it is gonna follow the book better.
http://moviepilot.com/article...._123572
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 12:13 am
by TPRJones
Robert A. Heinlein’s original Starship Troopers novel has widely been criticized as a celebration of war, militarism and even fascism.
Well, there's a fine example of completely failing to get the point of a novel.
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 12:17 am
by GORDON
Yep. I also like how he said, "Hollywood can't leave good enough alone" in regard to making a remake, and doesn't see the irony in his own statement about the original story being changed.
Re: Starship Troopers.... REMAKE MOTHER FUCKERS
Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 5:55 pm
by Malcolm
Starship Troopers.... REMAKE MOTHER FUCKERS
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 2:08 pm
by Leisher
Reboot or TV Show? Original screenwriter has an opinion.
Essentially, if it follows the source material, he isn't interested.
Starship Troopers.... REMAKE MOTHER FUCKERS
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 3:29 pm
by thibodeaux
At the risk of re-hashing: the "original" Verhoeven movie was never really based on Heinlein's novel to begin with. PV wanted to make a sci-fi bug-killing movie, and some lawyer told him that was already called Starship Troopers so he needed to get the rights for that. Then he made whatever story he wanted to do anyway.
Kind of like how Tag went down ..
Starship Troopers.... REMAKE MOTHER FUCKERS
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 7:04 am
by Vince
Read the novel after having seen the movie. Some stuff I'd have liked to have seen in the movie (proper treatment of the armor would have been cool), but mostly there really wasn't enough actual meat to the story to make a movie where you'd care about anyone.
A lot of the older sci-fi had that issue. They were so focused on the ideas that they really didn't develop the characters and drama.
Starship Troopers.... REMAKE MOTHER FUCKERS
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 9:12 am
by Leisher
The novel's concepts of government and citizenship is what's most fascinating.
Starship Troopers.... REMAKE MOTHER FUCKERS
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 4:26 pm
by thibodeaux
Vince wrote: Read the novel after having seen the movie.... but mostly there really wasn't enough actual meat to the story to make a movie where you'd care about anyone.
Are you sure you read the novel? Because it's a goddam bildungsroman. It's all ABOUT character development.
Starship Troopers.... REMAKE MOTHER FUCKERS
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 4:40 pm
by Cakedaddy
In the game I'm playing (Idle Heroes) someone suggested that I be promoted to . . . something. Higher than just a member. I said "I'll do it until I'm dead or you find someone better!" There was no response.
Starship Troopers.... REMAKE MOTHER FUCKERS
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2019 8:37 am
by Vince
thibodeaux wrote: Vince wrote: Read the novel after having seen the movie.... but mostly there really wasn't enough actual meat to the story to make a movie where you'd care about anyone.
Are you sure you read the novel? Because it's a goddam bildungsroman. It's all ABOUT character development.
Yeah, I read it. Long on thesis. Short on plot.
Edit: Just went back and reread the plot outline. I think it was just short on color for the plot. It's funny to read the plot on Wiki. Other than the armor combat, the movie followed the plot outline to a "T".
Starship Troopers.... REMAKE MOTHER FUCKERS
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2019 9:38 am
by Leisher
Vince wrote: Other than the armor combat, the movie followed the plot outline to a "T".
The problem is that it didn't take it seriously. It mocked it. Thus the use of the "propaganda" posters, font, messages, etc. from WWII. (Because that was totes evil. The screenwriter apparently this we should have just minded our own business as the Nazis conquered Europe and murdered Jews.)
Starship Troopers.... REMAKE MOTHER FUCKERS
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:39 am
by thibodeaux
The starship troopers WERE the nazis. Duh.