After Announcing a Helldivers Movie, Sony Is Now Officially Rebooting Starship Troopers

Sony is moving connected a caller Starship Troopers movie reboot, according to assorted Hollywood sources.

The Hollywood Reporter said District 9, Elysium, and Chappie manager Neill Blomkamp has signed connected to constitute and nonstop a caller adaptation of Starship Troopers, the 1959 subject sci-fi caller by Robert A. Heinlein. Deadline and Variety backed up the report.

This caller Starship Troopers movie is not a continuation of oregon related to Paul Verhoeven’s cult classical 1997 sci-fi satire Starship Troopers. Rather it is simply a caller adaptation of Heinlein’s novel, and comes from Sony’s Columbia Pictures.

Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers satirized the caller upon which it is based. Photo by TriStar Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images.

News of Blomkamp’s engagement with this caller Starship Troopers movie feels puzzling fixed Sony itself precocious announced a live-action movie of blockbuster PlayStation Studios shooter Helldivers. Arrowhead's Helldivers is heavy inspired by Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers, and sees cannon fodder soldiers tasked with defending a satirized fascist Super Earth authorities from alien bugs, among different force factions, portion preaching Liberty and Managed Democracy to the masses.

Sony present faces the imaginable of having caller Starship Troopers and Helldivers movies going up against each other, though The Hollywood Reporter said Blomkamp’s instrumentality is not a remake of the Verhoeven movie, alternatively a instrumentality to the root material. Heinlein’s publication that Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers is based connected differs powerfully successful code from the film, with galore believing it promotes the ideals the movie satirizes.

Neither this caller Starship Troopers nor the Helldivers movie has a merchandise window, truthful it whitethorn beryllium immoderate clip earlier we spot oregon perceive from either project. Blomkamp’s past movie was Sony’s ain Gran Turismo, an adaptation of the long-running PlayStation-exclusive driving simulation series.

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