cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26862304

A reboot of ‘Starship Troopers’ is in the works at Sony, with ‘District 9’ and ‘Chappie’ director Neill Blomkamp attached to helm.

  • Feydaikin@beehaw.org
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    9 hours ago

    I’m a bit in two minds about this news.

    I love both the novel and the movie as two separate things.

    And District 9 was good, but Chappie wasn’t even a blip on my radar as what little I saw of it was cringy as hell. :/

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      9 hours ago

      Neil Blomkamp is like a one hit wonder director. He came from nowhere, made a banger movie, and then he’s unable to replicate the success.

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        7 hours ago

        He has a lot of good ideas. The problem is he isn’t a great writer, so he needs a co-writer and someone to keep him in check. The mediocre films are a result of him taking over the reigns of everything. If you haven’t yet, he has a couple of short films under Oat Studios and I think a couple of them need to be explored more and turned into full feature films. I like the premise of “Firebase” specifically.

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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      8 hours ago

      I am as well but in a bit different way I think. I feel the movie did a good job with the general idea but of course lacked the mecha-armor drop ship type component. It would be great to do it in todays graphics. Then I look at like wheel of time and think that anything they make now will be awful and I rather just stick with the somewhat decent one we have.