Having read most of Robert A. Heinlein’s work during my formative years, I came out of viewing the 1997 feature of Starship Troopers with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I hated that it “strayed” from the source material as it did, i.e. by not really using hardly any of it. On the other hand, I loved its blunt and straightforward satire of things with what it did, showing an extreme and glorifying it. And doing it well, as I do enjoy going back to it from time to time to watch and grin and laugh with. So the news of a remake of it, which will be the third remake of a Paul Verhoeven feature following Robocop and Total Recall, I have a sense of trepidation about it. Nothing is known at this point beyond the fact that Fast Five producer Neil Moritz will be spearheading it with the Thor screenwriting team of Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz set to write it. The original work can be made powerfully here, and resonate to the world today, if they actually stick to the source material.
Novel Plot Concept: Juan Rico signed up with the Federal Service on a lark, but despite the hardships and rigorous training, he finds himself determined to make it as a cap trooper. In boot camp he will learn how to become a soldier, but when he graduates and war comes (as it always does for soldiers), he will learn why he is a soldier. Many consider this Hugo Award winner to be Robert Heinlein’s finest work, and with good reason. Forget the battle scenes and high-tech weapons (though this novel has them)–this is Heinlein at the top of his game talking people and politics.
[Source: Collider]
