Earlier this yr it was reported that District 9 director Neill Blomkamp would be rebooting the Starship Troopers franchise. His upcoming movie, which at the moment has no launch date, would be nearer to Robert A. Heinlein’s original 1959 pro-war novel.
Each time a movie franchise is rebooted, it’s inevitable that cast members from the original franchise present up. Generally these are legacy roles, and different instances it’s a enjoyable cameo. Both means, the cast of the 1997 Starship Troopers film haven’t got excessive hopes they’ll be known as for any roles in the reboot.
“Neil’s writing it proper now. It relies on what he’s going to do,” Michael Ironside stated throughout The Only Good Bug Is a Dead Bug: A Starship Troopers Reunion panel at C2E2 2025. “He did an ideal job with District 9. I do not know. You possibly can at all times go, ‘It’s going to be this, or it’s going to be that.’ However no one actually has a clue till he writes it and no matter he’s going to select.”
“I want him the better of luck and I hope they maintain to the satire that’s not in the e book,” Casper Van Dien stated. “I feel he does somewhat of that in District 9 anyhow. Individuals are saying it’s going to be nearer to the books. Some individuals are saying it’s going to be no matter, however it’s all hypothesis proper now. He’s a novel and unimaginable director, and I might love to see what his perspective was first.”
“I do not know what the script’s going to appear to be,” Dina Meyer stated.
“My guess is that, as a result of they stated they’re going to comply with the e book as carefully as doable,” Ironside replied.
“Then I’m out, as a result of Dizzy was a person in the e book,” Meyer replied.
“My guess is that they’re going to put as a lot distance as they will between this cast and this movie as doable. They’re going to do a really hard-nosed, very right-wing, very yahoo army kill-the-less-things and all that stuff. I don’t know. I don’t even know if it’s going to get made,” Ironside stated.
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