Columbia Pictures is plotting a new Starship Troopers movie, setting District 9 filmmaker Neill Blomkamp to write and direct an adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel story by Robert A. Heinlein.

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      7 hours ago

      I don’t think I’d even want it to be, to be honest. The original book was really just fascist apologia, and the later adaptations of it had the foresight to use that premise instead for more effective social commentary.

      Edit: I should clarify that I don’t think Heinlein himself was a fascist, but Starship Troopers is easily read as such.