Will The New 'Starship Troopers' Reboot Stay Faithful To The Book? (hollywoodreporter.com)

HughPickens.com shares news from the Hollywood Reporter: "Columbia Pictures is rebooting Starship Troopers, the 1997 sci-fi film directed by Paul Verhoeven... The studio is not remaking the film but is said to be going back to the original Heinlein novel for an all-new take." The original movie, considered a mixed success at the time of its release, went on to achieve a cult following, and during the DVD boom of the 2000s it became a mini-franchise for the studio, which produced three additional direct-to-DVD movies... "Starship Troopers [the novel] has been decried as promoting fascism and being racist in its creation of a society where democracy has been severely restricted..." writes Graeme McMillan. "The question then becomes: in updating Starship Troopers to make it more acceptable to today's audience, can it still manage to remain faithful enough to Heinlein's original to please the existing fan base?"
The script will be written by the writers of the upcoming Baywatch film starring Zac Efron and Dwayne Johnson.

Comments

Re:Awesome satire.

[lgw]

And there's actually a country that's close to what Heinlein dreamed of

Oh, jeez, another idiot who thinks an author must be endorsing something just because he wrote about it. I'll leave it to you to reconcile Troopers and Moon.

nuclear bombing a city (with "small" 2kt nuclear weapons),

Is it the "nukular" part that's scary? Are you projecting that fear onto this fiction world for some reason?

purposefully attacking civilian infrastructure to intimidate the population,

So, like any war we've ever fought, then?

"Old Man's War" by Scalzi is much more nuanced in this regard.

Fuck Scalzi, that Hugo-ruining SJW asshole. I had a couple of his books once - I burned them last winter Most satisfying. I might have found a different use for them, but the pages were too thick.