Starship Troopers

[John McHenry]

Starship Troopers is getting the remake treatment.

Though it might seem sacrilegious to many to even make a Starship Troopers reboot, this might really get your blood boiling. According to the producer, they are aiming for a less violent take on the story.

In an interview with Empire, Toby Jaffe said: "The more expensive a film is, the harder it is now to make it that violent. With Recall in particular, we made a conscious choice to keep it tonally closer to something like Minority Report. It gives the studio, and us as producers, the opportunity to reintroduce it in a new way."

What is cool, however, is that Jaffe menionts the "jump suits" featured in Robert Heinlein's book: "Working in a visual-effects renaissance as we are, we have the ability to do so much more now. We can do the Jump Suits [armoured exoskeletons from Heinlein's novel], for example, which I don't think they could have done before."

No word on a release date or director but Thor and X-Men: First Class screenwriters Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz have written the script.

Personally I thought the first one had just the right amount of cheesiness sex and violence to make it work. I could see a more serious version working but I'm not sure I want it too.

Original Trailer from the 1997 movie
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So is it too soon? What are your opinions of the original?

 

[CaptainxBumout]

I absolutlely love the original movie. It had the right amount of action, violence and good special effects that almost hold up today. I loved the propaganda scenes throughout the movie with the whole do you want to know more stuff. I wonder if they'll keep all the themes or just make an action movie. I guess we'll see if they keep the nazi officer uniforms or not.

 

[Deezy]

Co-ed shower scenes or no movie.

 

[Pete]

It's gotta be better than Starship Troopers 3 (which, to be honest, wasn't THAT bad story-wise, just cheesy as hell).

I actually could see a Minority Report-esque approach working, to be honest...

 

[Keith]

The original was good dumb b-movie fun, with great effects and a sharp script. There is nothing new to add here. This is so ramdon. Next they will be remaking the Sixth Sense.

 

[ThatGuyFromNukemHigh]

Lets face it, as of tomorrow a remake for a 2002 movie will be in theatres around the world. I dont find it hard to believe they are remaking this, which is atleast 5 years older.

I have heard this movie is supposed to play more on Robert A. Heinlein's book, and will likely lose most if not all of the "campy goodness". They will probably go more serious like the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street.

But, this movie has to be better than ST2, what a horrible rip off of Screamers.

 

[Keith]

Lets face it, as of tomorrow a remake for a 2002 movie will be in theatres around the world. I dont find it hard to believe they are remaking this, which is atleast 5 years older.

I have heard this movie is supposed to play more on Robert A. Heinlein's book, and will likely lose most if not all of the "campy goodness". They will probably go more serious like the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street.

But, this movie has to be better than ST2, what a horrible rip off of Screamers.

Which 2002 film are you speaking off? I get that horror movies which were origially made in Japenise get remade for a hollywood audience, but for a film which was already a fairly big hit, but only appeals to a select audience I don't see how remaking it will do anything.

 

[ThatGuyFromNukemHigh]

The Amazing Spider-Man was the movie I was talking about, 10 years since the Sam Raimi masterpiece.

I think the idea of remaking it is to cash in on the "Big Bang Theory" audience. Any Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, or Comic is set-up to cash in heavily at Comicon, there is even a Judge Dredd remake in the works.

 

[John McHenry]

Judge Dredd remake is almost in theaters actually. Trailer is already out.

 

[Keith]

The Amazing Spider-Man was the movie I was talking about, 10 years since the Sam Raimi masterpiece.I think the idea of remaking it is to cash in on the "Big Bang Theory" audience. Any Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, or Comic is set-up to cash in heavily at Comicon, there is even a Judge Dredd remake in the works.

I didn't think that the new Spiderman movie was a remake just a reboot. If it really is a remake then I have been put off seeing it.

 

[John McHenry]

It's a "reboot" but that really doesn't help its cause much.

 

[ThatGuyFromNukemHigh]

Anyone mind telling me what the actual differance is between Remake & Reboot? As far as I can tell they are both the exact same thing, old movies redone to make more money off the existing property because nobody has an original thought anymore.

 

[CaptainxBumout]

Anyone mind telling me what the actual difference is between Remake & Reboot? As far as I can tell they are both the exact same thing, old movies redone to make more money off the existing property because nobody has an original thought anymore.

Basically they are both made to make profits on existing titles. A remake is usually the telling of the same story with some minor tweaks where as a reboot changes things pretty drastically and retell the origin story. Sometimes a reboot can just be a sequel like Casino Royale. If Spiderman was a remake, they’d use the Green Goblin as the villain again and basically tell the same story. Instead they’re doing the origin story differently. An example would be Psycho from 1998 is a remake of the 1960 Psycho. Rob Zombie's Halloween is a reboot since it widely differs from the original and retells the origin story. Same goes with Nolan‘s Batman Begins. Some blur the lines like A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Remakes- Scarface, Italian Job, The Departed, Let Me In, Psycho

Reboot- Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, X-Men First Class, Friday the 13th, Superman Returns

 

[ThatGuyFromNukemHigh]

That really does nothing to change my opinion on them, and at best is the way "hollywood' would desribe a remake while trying to tell you its not.

In comics, a reboot drops the issue count back to #1, and usually still uses the past runs as its history. Like the DC New52, or X-Men Regenesis, some events (Like Talia Al Ghul being concieved at Woodstock) have changed to make the stories more modern(its retconed to her being concieved at Live Aid). A remake is a re-invisioning of an old story, that recreates its history like Batman Year One, or Spider-Man Season One.

 

[CaptainxBumout]

I wasn't trying to change your opinion on the matter as I really don't see why we need two different titles for each either but it makes sense. I'm not sure how comics tie into it since I don't really read them but I assume it's filled with reboots. I think basically when it all boils down to it, Remakes are of an individual property where as reboots tend to deal with franchises.