Apparently there’s been some forward motion on making a new “Starship Troopers” motion picture. Tentative “yay…?” on that. The 1990’s movie was ok as a stand-alone action/satire flick, so long as you separate it in your mind from the novel Heinlein wrote. So a new movie could be good, could be bad. If it’s a remake of the earlier flick, then the chances of it being good are minimal. Think about it. RoboCop. Red Dawn. Total Recall. Ghostbusters. Arthur. Poltergeist. The Omen. Carrie. Recent years are filled with remakes that run the whole spectrum, from forgettable to execrable. But if the movie makers forget the earlier movie and go right back to the book, it could be good.

Here’s the article:

‘Starship Troopers’ Reboot in the Works

From that, here’s the good news:

The studio is not remaking the film but is said to be going back to the original Heinlein novel for an all-new take. No personnel from the 1997 film are involved.

And here’s the “Ummmm…” news:

Mark Swift and Damian Shannon, the writing duo behind the upcoming Zac Efron-Dwayne Johnson ‘Baywatch’ movie, will pen the script for the alien-bug war film.

I remain unconvinced that a remake of “Baywatch” is necessarily a good jumping off point for “Starship Troopers.” But I guess we’ll see.