‘Starship Troopers’ Reboot…Less Violent?!

Awhile back it was announced that ‘Starship Troopers’ would be joining many films and getting the reboot treatment. The 1997 Paul Verhoeven film starring Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards and Neil Patrick Harris is a fan favorite and spawned three sequels. Three god awful sequels that really didn’t hold up to the original. Toby Jaffe (who also produced the ‘Total Recall’ reboot) will handle the movie and has stated that it is too hard to produce a movie that is “too violent” when it is too expensive to produce.

“The more expensive a film is, the harder it is now to make it that violent,” explains Jaffe, also one of the team behind the Colin Farrell’s Total Recall. “With Recall in particular, we made a conscious choice to keep it tonally closer to something like Minority Report. It gives the studio, and us as producers, the opportunity to reintroduce it in a new way.

“Verhoeven made his movie a critique of fascism,” says Jaffe, “whereas Heinlein was writing from the perspective of someone who had served in World War II. Y’know, one man’s fascism is another man’s patriotism…”

“Working in a visual-efects renaissance as we are, we have the ability to do so much more now. We can do the Jump Suits [armoured exoskeletons from Heinlein’s novel], for example, which I don’t think they could have done before.”

Source: Empire