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Columbia Pictures has tapped District 9 director Neill Blomkamp to write and direct a new Starship Troopers film, according to The Hollywood Reporter, giving the franchise its first live-action entry since 2008’s Starship Troopers 3: Marauder.
The movie will be based on Robert A. Heinlein’s 1959 book of the same name, not a remake of or sequel to 1997’s Paul Verhoeven-directed Starship Troopers, say the outlet’s unnamed sources. In that movie, characters played by Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Neil Patrick Harris, and Michael Ironside are…
