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Honestly I would agree if Blomkamp hadn't been on a downward slope since District 9. Granted, I haven't watched that Gran Turismo movie he did. But Demonic was straight up terrible.

Oh God, I dread that book. Most of it takes place in a class room and it's a long diatribe about how you shouldn't be allowed to vote if you haven't served. Most of the characters have prosthetic limbs and boast about their sacrifices but the absurdity of the whole situation seems to allude the author. This film is going to be terrible if Neil Blomkamp writes it.

I just finished that book a while ago, and I’ve read a ton of Heinlein’s work. It would be interesting to see it put on the big screen in something more true to the book, but I gotta admit that I really like the movie too.

I just want him to do the first movie over again. Ive read the book and while it was a pioneer I dont love it.

I'm sorry to say it but I do want the movie of the Cadian 8th fighting the Tyranids over again just bigger, better and more hardcore. Sometimes I want dumb shooting and explosions war movies without the emotional weight of knowing that the people being shot probably didnt want to be at war either.

Thats why I love Battle for Los Angeles. Theres no "bad guys are people too".

Yeah the last thing the world needs right now is more auth/fash propaganda.

I don't believe Heinlein ever wrote a sequel to Starship Troopers, though certainly the "military science fiction" genre owes a lot to that book.

Ed Neumeier (who wrote Robocop and the 97 movie) however, wrote and directed the 2 live action film sequels. The second is, from memory, God awful and not worth a watch. The third is ALSO God awful as I recall, but it has the advantage of going pretty big with its ideas, so there's a bit of zany fun to be had. Plus, despite it being one of the defining features of the book, it's also the first time (I think) power armor makes an appearance in the film franchise. Casper van Dien's star had fallen sufficiently by that point too, so he also reprises his role as Rico, which is another point in its favor.

There also a handful of computer animated movies and a TV series that I believe originated in Japan. They are about on par, quality wise, with the CGI Resident Evil movies. Depending on your tastes, that could either be a mild endorsement or a resounding condemnation.

No there arent sequels.

However there is the Forever War series by Joe Haldeman, which he claimed was influenced by Stormship Troopers (and his own war experience). Mechanical super warriors in space but instead of glorifying war it showed a darker side.

Heinlein actually told Haldeman at an award ceremony that his book "may be the best future war story I've ever read!"

Are you perhaps thinking of Ender's Game? I get the two books confused occasionally too for some reason

You can still enjoy the movie and the book. You can ignore the upcoming film. New media cannot ruin old media, follow the example of the matrix fans who say "shame they never made a sequel"

Starship troopers the book and the movie are separate. The movie is it's own special beautiful absurdity loosely based on the book but not really at all.

Yeah, I don't need a movie that requires a sequel that never happens.

I don't think I'd even want it to be, to be honest. The original book was really just fascist apologia, and the later adaptations of it had the foresight to use that premise instead for more effective social commentary.

Edit: I should clarify that I don't think Heinlein himself was a fascist, but Starship Troopers is easily read as such.