While Paul Verhoeven’s ultra gory satirical Starship Troopers was made in 1997 and has hadn’t numerous sequels and series related to it, nothing has ever come close to the genius of his iconic adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein’s book.
And now Ed Neumeier – who wrote several of the instalments including the first movie, has revealed that Rico’s Roughnecks may be coming back.
Asked if a sequel to the Verhoeven’s movie set years later with the same cast would work, Neumier says: “I don’t want to jinx anything, but we are talking about trying to do a television show that is based on that idea.”
Would we see Casper Van Dein back as Johnny Rico?
“I’ve written all sorts of things with Casper now as Johnny Rico and it’s a gas to write him because he gives you that character, he gives you more than you think, as soon as he shows up, the tone comes with him a little bit. I think it’s because he’s ridiculously handsome, he’s got this boyish can-do attitude, which is what Johnny Rico is, and a lot of the brand comes with him. It’s been to easy to dismiss these things in the past. Sometimes you can reboot something, but sometimes it just doesn’t feel right,” Neumier says.
He then goes on to talk about a planned reboot at Sony which would see the bloody violence that stood the first movie apart from anything else toned down for a more kid-friendly experience: “Well, I have mixed feelings about it [the reboot] because I think that what we did with the first Starship is almost not repeatable in a way…I based the structure of Starship Troopers when I was writing it, the structure of WWII propaganda films that the studios made between 1941 and 1944. We don’t really talk about those movies anymore, but that had a very particular structure and they were made during a conflict and they didn’t have an end-point as with Starship ends they’ll keep fighting.
He adds that the idea for the reboot sounds very different indeed: “I’m not sure, their idea is as I understood at a certain point was they said to kind of do An Officer and The Gentleman, Johnny Rico as the Officer and The Gentlemen version of a sci-fi movie. So, maybe you could do that a romantic picture about kids coming up together in the service and one of them becoming an officer and all of that means, you know. It’s really not what Heinlein’s about, but that’s okay I can imagine you could do that. I’m not sure who goes to see that movie though.”
Hmmmmmm… given that, I think we’ll wait for the ultra violent TV series, thank you very much.
Source: HEntertainment
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