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According to a break handed to New York Magazine's Vulture website, Sony Pictures wants to remake Starship Troopers and they've got a producer and screenwriters already on the case.

The producer is Neal H. Moritz, best known for making five Fast and Furious movies (with a sixth and seventh in the pipeline), is the guy that Sony handed the job to. Vulture then goes on to state that Moritz turned to Thor and X-Men: First Class screenwriters Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz to start writing the new Troopers script.

That's where the details end.

It was back in 1997 when Sony Pictures gave us the first movie adaptation of Robert E. Heinlein's Starship Troopers. Directed by RoboCop and Total Recall helmer Paul Verhoeven and starring Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer and Neil Patrick Harris, the '97 movie made use of then early CG technology to realize the giant alien bugs that futuristic human soldiers battle across the galaxy. What didn't wind up in that movie was Heinlein's idea of placing the troopers in power armor. With today's higher computer graphics power that armor and showing bigger and more epic battles can now be realized.

Other differences between the Heinlein novel and the 1997 movie could be included in this new Starship Troopers. In the Verhoeven movie the bugs are depicted as being without technology; in the novel they have spaceships and weapons. The movie also included a romantic triangle which wasn't in the book (since all the soldiers in the book were male.)