Writer/director Neill Blomkamp (“District 9”), will adapt author Robert A. Heinlein’s 1959 military science fiction novel “Starship Troopers” for Sony Pictures:
“…previously, a live-action 1997 feature directed by Paul Verhoeven…
“…the new film will be more of a direct adaptation of the source material…
“…set in a future society ruled by the human interstellar government the ‘Terran Federation’, dominated by a military elite.
“In this society, only veterans of ‘Federal Service’ enjoy full citizenship, including the right to vote.
“‘Juan Johnny Rico’, a young Filipino serving in the ‘Mobile Infantry’, progresses from recruit to officer…
“…against the backdrop of an interstellar war between humans and the hideous alien species known as ‘Arachnids’, aka the ‘Bugs’…”
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