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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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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I really hope Blomkamp takes the satirical approach and isn't like "I wanna make a Starship Troopers movie that is much more like the book."

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 2 points 55 minutes ago

I just want him to do the first movie over again. Ive read the book and while it was a pioneer I dont love it.

I'm sorry to say it but I do want the movie of the Cadian 8th fighting the Tyranids over again just bigger, better and more hardcore. Sometimes I want dumb shooting and explosions war movies without the emotional weight of knowing that the people being shot probably didnt want to be at war either.

Thats why I love Battle for Los Angeles. Theres no "bad guys are people too".

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah the last thing the world needs right now is more auth/fash propaganda.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

I think "propaganda" is less accurate than "thought experiment". Heinlein centered his books around a lot of different political backdrops. Pretty sure he wrote Starship Troopers in the middle of writing the free-love-hippie-commune "propaganda" Stranger in a Strange Land.

Still, probably best not to try to hide subtle critique in something that looks like propaganda.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago

I always looked at it as a demonstration of a military facist utopia. I actually wrote an outline for a prequel to it as a writing exercise in highschool and it got really good marks.