It needs no remake. The original movie made a statement that needs repeating in today's day and age but is still effective by just rewatching it.
Xenophobic nationalism can't do anything but crush bugs by throwing as many citizens at it as possible.
This wasn't the exact message in the original novel but our planet's current direction politically is definitely leaning towards fascist tendencies in more than one country.
I loved it when it came out and watched it a few times back then. Every time I tried to watch it later on I got really bored and had to stop halfway through. I don’t remember why that’s the case though.
So I’m looking forward to a fresh take on it. Especially because I also loved District 9.
I'd love to see a movie that actually adapts the book. Heinlein has written that the book carried through to a logical end what happens when only veterans can vote: They find a way to always be at war with something.
Hence the war with the bugs, which are everywhere, different, and just scary enough.
An actual adaptation of the book will not detract from the prior movie, which nailed the propaganda but little else.
Read the first chapter of the novel. One of the best battle scenes ever written.
Also, the scene where The Lieutenant goes back to save a trooper and that action delays the launch. The shuttle's pilot is sure everyone is going to die, but the mother ship's Captain flies in by eye and makes the pickup.
If you like war stories, give "Night Soldiers" a shot. A young Bulgarian is killed by a fascist mob. His brother is recruited into the KGB and is sent to fight in Spain. Reads like a collaboration between Franz Kafka and Ian Fleming. Alan Furst is the author.
While exact plot details remain closely guarded, the new “Starship Troopers” is said to draw inspiration from Heinlein’s original military story, rather than pulling from the fascist send-up that characterized Verhoeven’s satirical adaptation.
Yeah, you don't want to send up fascists today...
(Wonders if The Great Dictator and Verhoeven's Starship Troopers would make a good double-bill.)
I mean, I guess I'm open if it is trying to do something controversial in actually adapting the book faithfully? Which I'm not sure would go over well or that I would like at all but at least would be making something new and relavent and dialogue provoking? The original was a pro-military pro-discipline novel written in anger at the suspending of US nuclear testing. Heinlein was frustrated at basically hippies that he saw as not really participating or taking responsibility for the country as a whole calling the shots and pulling back the US military development in the cold war. Agree or disagree and adaptation criticizing the current culture of western withdrawal from Afghanistan, the milquetoast supporting of Ukraine or other connecting issues could be a very interesting and relavent piece of modern political commentary. Again, agree or disagree with the stance, at least it's making a movie that is worth making because it will make people think and talk about different perspectives. Just don't fucking make a cash grab or an actual remake of the Verhoeven film (because it's already perfect, it doesn't need to be remade)