Sony Pictures is working on a new Starship Troopers movie with Gran Turismo filmmaker Neill Blomkamp – and to be clear, this is completely separate from Sony Pictures’ Helldivers film, which was announced earlier this year.
The upcoming Starship Troopers film from Sony won’t be based on the 1997 film that Helldivers 2 draws a lot of inspiration from. Rather, as reported by Deadline, this Sony Starship Troopers film will instead go back to the 1959 sci-fi novel as its source material, which was written by Robert A. Heinlein.
“Plot details for the new incarnation [are] under wraps, but I betcha the movie is about astronauts versus bugs,” reads Deadline’s report. So, that sounds a lot like what I assume the Helldivers 2 film – which, again, is also in the works with Sony Pictures – will be about…
Back in January, Arrowhead CCO Johan Pilestedt confirmed the Helldivers 2 developer will be involved with the upcoming film, but in a somewhat limited capacity. The exec said the game’s development team “are not Hollywood people”, and therefore “don’t know what it takes to make a movie”.
The studio’s CEO Shams Jorjani still has some ideas for the Helldivers 2 film, though. Writing on Discord following the announcement, Jorjani quipped he wants as “many A-list actors as possible” to be part of the film, but there is a condition – he wants those actors to “get killed violently immediately”.
As well as Helldivers, other Sony adaptations include a Ghost of Tsushima anime for Crunchyroll, which is slated for 2027. Meanwhile, the second season of The Last of Us is due to air this April.