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

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Written by Chris3,697 Reads1 Comments2025-03-18 07:56:24

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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Xenotaris

Member2KMar-24-2025 3:20 AM

You have pique my curiosity and now you have my attention

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