New ‘Starship Troopers’ film is in development at Sony • Neill Blomkamp is directing • Will be a faithful adaptation of the novel (via THR) - ThreadSky

culturecrave.co • 25 days ago

New ‘Starship Troopers’ film is in development at Sony

• Neill Blomkamp is directing

• Will be a faithful adaptation of the novel

(via THR)

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themetallicfloyd.bsky.social•25 days ago

drownbrew.bsky.social•25 days ago

Please keep the shower scene

sanguiniumwolfman.bsky.social•25 days ago

Starship troopers
Is awesome
Fuck the book! it sucks ass

surlygabe.bsky.social•25 days ago

no thanks

rightnower.bsky.social•25 days ago

culturecrave.co•25 days ago

🔗

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/new-starship-troopers-movie-in-the-works-1236163598/

cgdavidb.bsky.social•25 days ago

Faithful adaptation? ok I’m in

bathoryyy.bsky.social•25 days ago

You do realize the original book is fucking awful ?

naholyr.fr•25 days ago

And it's like first degree fascist

pilgrim1997.bsky.social•25 days ago

I get where the fascist allegations come from, but there's no central authoritarian leader, race and ethnicity aren't a polarizing issue, and military service is voluntary. The movie turns the story's government into full blown fascists. The author also denied any endorsement of fascism

m154n7hr0p3.bsky.social•25 days ago

I have a bridge to sell you

popeofchilitown.bsky.social•23 days ago

Ok but he also said that the extremely reactionary and authoritarian views expressed by Rico’s teacher reflected his own.

Maybe he argued that they weren’t actually fascist, since back then there was a consensus in polite society that fascism is bad, but the views he endorsed are what they are.

popeofchilitown.bsky.social•23 days ago

They already made that movie, it’s called “Triumph of The Will.”

Strange that it came out before the book, though.

electrichead.bsky.social•25 days ago

You love fascists, eh?

chadradish.bsky.social•25 days ago

With an opinion this shitty I'm shocked you're not marked by any of the usual labelers

mayorofgastown.bsky.social•25 days ago

The book was neo-fascist crap. Heinlein was a fucking hack.
Good luck with that.

samivich.bsky.social•25 days ago

They are trying to cash in on that helldivers movie hype

They ain't that guy pal

jeroastra.bsky.social•25 days ago

That moment when Helldivers is a better Starship Troopers than Starship Troopers.

stranev.com•25 days ago

Straight from the list of movies that don't need a remake.

supergoron.bsky.social•25 days ago

Sounds like a Sony move to me.

humblehobbyist.bsky.social•25 days ago

So piss boring and filled with the lead constantly being horny and weird ?

Cause that is 99% of that book and I’m tired of acting like it’s good

unlikely-gemini.bsky.social•25 days ago

So is he looking at it as a warning or a promise?

dumbjosh.bsky.social•25 days ago

👎

streak2442.bsky.social•25 days ago

Surely the studio behind Helldiver's 2 is assisting with this right?

el-burrito.bsky.social•25 days ago

Well, this sounds like a bad idea, but I could've stopped reading at Sony.

joeyberrestarwars.bsky.social•25 days ago

Has anyone actually read the book?

macko-99.bsky.social•25 days ago

Faithful adaptation?

I'm worried then.

maseo.bsky.ar•25 days ago

Wait... Wasn't the big point of the movie that it was a parody of a facist novel that made fun of everything that the author took seriously??

Why would they want to make a faithful... Oh, wait. I remembered who won the elections. It makes sense, I guess

flamesting.bsky.social•25 days ago

Peek is back.

themeddler.bsky.social•25 days ago

What about District 10 Neill? 😂

tonyhighwind.hellthread.vet•25 days ago

They were going to make a Helldivers movie but Arrowhead sat them down and asked "You Realize That The Helldivers Are Not The Good Guys, Right?"

machminotaur.bsky.social•25 days ago

jesus christ NO

prefers-not.bsky.social•25 days ago

The book is.... not great. Verhoeven movie satirizing it is far superior.

slop.guru•25 days ago

a neill blomkamp movie? boy i hope it doesn’t show incredible promise but end up being and underwhelming venture that can’t land the plane!

visceravalentine.bsky.social•25 days ago

Guess we gotta kill Neill Blomkamp now

resistanceraccoon.bsky.social•25 days ago

@knowingbetter.nebula.tv

onemariobro.bsky.social•25 days ago

So essentially the version that the right wing chuds will fully support and tout as excellent writing

lokinmodar.me•25 days ago

It'll be straight up fascist propaganda

rnjesus.bsky.social•25 days ago

Oh good, Starship Troopers, but for real fascist this time?

Great. We needed that for sure...

connorapps.bsky.social•25 days ago

Cancel the film

stumblinz.bsky.social•25 days ago

For what it’s worth the game starship troopers over on Xbox is fantastic too.

alistaircoleman.bsky.social•25 days ago

Read the book recently. Yeah, nah.

stinkface369.bsky.social•25 days ago

I see a lot of folks talking about the fascist tones of the book. But I thought that was the point. To show how fascism leads to constant conflict and creation of "others" through war.

jedimika.bsky.social•25 days ago

However, when that in turn leads to getting everything he ever wanted; up to and including converting his estranged father to the ideology... It falls flat at conveying "war against the others" as a bad thing.
There's a lot of "fuck'em, I got mine!" and "This is the way" attitudes.

5kiper.bsky.social•25 days ago

Kinda cool but they are doing helldivers movie too right? So we will get 2 movies from sony that are almost exactly the same?

bathoryyy.bsky.social•25 days ago

Well if they are close to the book one will be pro Nazis while the other is going to be a satire so no.

s3ct10n-22.bsky.social•25 days ago

Brother the whole reason this movie isn’t a straight adaptation is because PV thought it was the most incel ridden right wing rag he ever read and it bored the shit out of him so he turned it into satire. Congratulations dont youve goose step straight past the point haven’t you

phobafett.bsky.social•25 days ago

bazhoban.bsky.social•25 days ago

Oh great… so all the ‘we rule, go guns!’ With none of the parody and cleverness… yeah, nah! Verhoven actually twisted this dross into a fantastic send up of the all American cheese and made it very anti-authoritarian!

The book is shit.

bigtime1224.bsky.social•25 days ago

Would you like to know more? Lol

holdendisperra.bsky.social•25 days ago

Ahhh yes, let’s lean into the fascist undertones of the book rather than ridicule them

lightspore.bsky.social•24 days ago

omg omg omg lol i love District 9

gusconstantine.bsky.social•25 days ago

Who wants this 🤦‍♂️

flamesting.bsky.social•25 days ago

I do. Start Ship troopers is fucking awesome.

why-not-zoidberg.bsky.social•25 days ago

You realize this movie is the opposite of the old one right? this one is Pro-Fascism unironically, just as the book is?

gusconstantine.bsky.social•25 days ago

The movie does.

ultracrepa.bsky.social•25 days ago

the book sucks dick

shotgunkid.bsky.social•25 days ago

I was pleasantly surprised by it when I actually read the thing in december

justmattr.bsky.social•25 days ago

I like that it’s Neil Blomkamp but damn do I hate that they’re adapting the book because nothing beats the original.

popeofchilitown.bsky.social•23 days ago

The first Starship Troopers movie was the only good way to adapt it. Treated the source material with all the respect it deserved (none) and explicitly repudiated everything the book stood for.

tessaraht.bsky.social•25 days ago

Fauthful to the book?! What a braindead idea.

papahrf.bsky.social•25 days ago

Continuation or reboot?

iamnotageekguys.bsky.social•25 days ago

Neither

papahrf.bsky.social•25 days ago

So...if it's not continuing the film series, and it's not rebooting the film series.... What is it????

iamnotageekguys.bsky.social•25 days ago

Well it's a new adaptation.

Or unless you count this as a reboot.

It's like saying Villeneuve's Dune is a reboot of Lynch's Dune.

johnmillerman.bsky.social•25 days ago

So unironically profascist

papahrf.bsky.social•25 days ago

Yeah, I'd personally say it's a reboot if it's going to be a brand new start to the film franchise.

b1gdill.bsky.social•25 days ago

District 9 was a banger.

Was disappointed we didn't get his Alien flick.

theyogurtthief.bsky.social•25 days ago

why would they be doing this and helldivers at the same time?

duckywinks.bsky.social•25 days ago

Because Helldivers makes money which means something exactly like it will make money. There’s people who are paid a lot of money to think like that.

bayouboi.bsky.social•25 days ago

Can’t wait for people to accuse the film of stealing power armor from fallout of warhammer 40k meanwhile it’s the other way around.

The line “come on you apes, don’t you wanna live forever” was said literally.

The power armor was described as making the soldiers look like giant apes.

tcknight83.bsky.social•25 days ago

But why?

tescomeald3al.bsky.social•25 days ago

wait wasn’t the movie a satire of the book? Wasn’t the movie pointing at the book and saying “this is fascist and stupid”?

alebrelle.bsky.social•25 days ago

Yes.

doompacifist.bsky.social•25 days ago

Indeed.

zapher.bsky.social•25 days ago

Trump wins 2nd term, fascists come crawling out the woodwork. i love the world we live in...

zapher.bsky.social•25 days ago

thats a big NOPE from me

caseykeno18.bsky.social•25 days ago

monkeyboy1337.bsky.social•25 days ago

Sign me up. No more CGI sequels 👍

phobafett.bsky.social•25 days ago

"no more CGI sequels"

monkeyboy1337.bsky.social•25 days ago

Why is this getting likes? 😭

monkeyboy1337.bsky.social•25 days ago

Tell me what? It's not another one of these, is it? 😭
https://youtu.be/8R0yLRoevnA

cinematicgrain.bsky.social•25 days ago

I forgot this was a thing.

squidztg.bsky.social•25 days ago

But... the book is unapologetically pro-fascist... and terrible.

bone2meetu.bsky.social•25 days ago

Oh so it it’ll be a pro fascism screed lmao

rosebug22.bsky.social•25 days ago

There is no topping the original.

2xyt.bsky.social•25 days ago

District 8 director?

duckywinks.bsky.social•25 days ago

Well I guess if there was anytime to make money adapting open fascist propaganda into a feature, I guess this would be it.

chadradish.bsky.social•25 days ago

They could try their hand at Rand novels

suraventri.bsky.social•25 days ago

Someone tried that
They couldn't keep the actors between movies lol

chadradish.bsky.social•25 days ago

I'm sure Brianna Wu is very happy about this

suraventri.bsky.social•25 days ago

They don't learn

haxsourceraga.bsky.social•25 days ago

Weird considering that Helldivers movie also in development. Considering the similarities of subject matter and tone, that’s already weird. And both are Sony too? What’s up with that?

machminotaur.bsky.social•25 days ago

helldivers was originally satirical, I don't know if the sequel remembered that. fans sure didn't notice if it was

hamwise.bsky.social•25 days ago

The sequel is very definitely satirical - some gamers are too stupid to realise it though. But then again, the same people are too stupid to realise the first film is satirical too, so...