The bugs are coming back, and Columbia Pictures has tapped Mark Swift and
Damian Shannon to write the screenplay for a brand new film that the studio
hopes will relaunch a potential new franchise.
Swift and Shannon's most recent work was on the Baywatch movie starring
Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron.
Neal H. Moritz ("Fast & Furious" franchise) is producing the
reboot with Toby Jaffe, with whom he previously collaborated on another 1990s
sci-fi remake, Total Recall starring Colin Farrell.
Starship Troopers is based on a Robert A. Heinlein sci-fi novel that followed
soldier Johnny Rico as he moves up the military ranks in a time when mankind is
fighting a war against a race of giant alien insects.
In 1997 Dutch director Paul Verhoeven ("RoboCop," "Total
Recall") picked-and-choose from the novel and brought to the big screen a satire
on military-driven society, and fascism starring Neil Patrick Harris, Denise
Richards, and Casper Van Dien.
At the time of its release, the film wasn't all that successful but over
time it did achieve cult status, partially due to the DVD boom of the 2000s. Starship
Troopers became a small franchise with three direct-to-DVD movies and a TV animation.
Columbia is not intent on remaking Verhoeven's version or rebooting it,
instead the studio is said be going back to Heinlein's novel.
Source - THR
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