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Neill Blomkamp is directing the Starship Troopers reboot for Sony Pictures!

Neill Blomkamp is directing the Starship Troopers reboot for Sony Pictures!

The Starship Troopers reboot is finally making some progress! District 9 and Chappie director Neill Blomkamp has been tapped to direct the new Starship Troopers movie according to a fresh report by The Hollywood Reporter. The new film will not be a remake of the 1997 original, but will instead reboot the franchise as a whole, starting over and using the 1959 Starship Troopers novel as reference instead.

Published in 1959, Troopers ostensibly told of an interstellar war between Earth and a host of bug-like aliens, and focused on a rise of a military serviceman named Johnny Rico. But the story had other things on its minds, like exploring the strengths of life in a military society and such ideas as having to perform service in order to have voting rights.

A relaunch of the Starship Troopers franchise has been in the works since 2016 but since that initial announcement, it had been radio silence on a fronts. Now we have a director, but casting updates and release date information have yet to be revealed.

While Neill Blomkamp didn't get to explore his vision for an Alien 5, he will now get a chance to try his hand at another iconic sci-fi cult classic. Are you excited to see Blomkamp's take on Starship Troopers? Let us know in the comments!

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