Annapurna Pictures' Megan Ellison, currently working on the Terminator reboot, hints at a new Starship Troopers...
Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures is the company that snapped up the rights to the Terminatorfranchise a year or two back, and remains involved as director Alan Taylor calls the shots on Terminator: Genesis (if that's still the film's name). Annapurna also has several other big movies to its name, including Foxcatcherand the Seth Rogen co-penned animated movie Sausage Party. Most recently, it released the likes of American Hustle and Her.
A teasing Tweet from Megan Ellison however suggests that the firm may well now be in the Starship Troopers business. "Would you like to know more?", she Tweeted, a phrase which Starship Troopers fans know only too well. And when sent a picture of the film in reply, she responded with a simple "Yes".
Now: there may be a mountain made out of a proverbial molehill here, but when the person backing a major sci-fi reboot suddenly starts Tweeting about another one in such a way? It's hard not to read something into it (especially when it's little secret that a Starship Troopers reboot was in the works a year or two back, only apparently hitting the skids when the new Total Recall underperformed).
We await further details...
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Why dear Lord, why?
Probably for the same reason that it seems like a good idea to produce three new Stargate movies that make no reference to the the TV series.
Because the first "Starship Troopers" was actively contemptuous of the source material. A film based on the actual book would be a game changer.
>Well thats your opinion of course. >
It's my opinion and the director's.Paul Verhoeven never bothered to hid his utter contempt for the source material. Indeed, he never finished reading the novel, claiming that after reading few chapters and became both "bored and depressed.
The movie's pretty much unwatchable - other than as a very expensive soft porn movie.
The book is a masterpiece, and it's still being read. The movie wound up satirized in an MST3K off-shoot, "Rift-Traks - and that edited version wound up improving the film greatly.
Look, if all you want out of a movie are breasts, special effects and to be assured that you're a better person than those who lay down their lives so others may live - then "Stormship Troopers" is the film for you.