4th Starship Troopers Film to be CGI

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After two forgettable direct-to-video sequels – the last of which was released over two years ago – StarshipTrooperFans.net has announced that a fourth film is now in the works.

While details are currently scarce, what is known is that the fourth instalment will be completely CG-animated. This will not be the series’ first animated excursion, the Starship Troopers universe was previously pixillated for the surprisingly good animated series, Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles, that followed Paul Verhoeven’s original film.

Dropping the subtext for uninspired bug-bashing after the enjoyable first instalment, the flailing franchise’s leap to CG-animation will have to do something pretty special if Starship Troopers 4 hopes to compete with the upsurge in quality evident from this years crop of animated extravaganza’s.

The official press release to follow.
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http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/2010/10/1...unced-the-bugs-to-be-more-animated-than-ever/

Well the 1st one was good (not brilliant, could have been better) 2nd was JUST TERRIBLE! 3rd was ok, watchable at the very least. Here hoping the cgi movie will be that of better quality than the 40k animated film (ala Ultra Marines) or the Roughnecks TV series.
 
The problem is the budget. If they are going to do something like the above mentioned Ultra Marines, it will be TERRIBLE.
 
Roughnecks or bust. So, probably a bust.
 
Despite owning the trilogy, I have only seen the first. It was certainly enjoyable for what it was.
 
Meh, could be okay if it's carried by decent CGI. Doubt they have the budget, though.

Wanted Bob said:
trilogy
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Can we please stop calling a group of 3 movies a "trilogy" when the first movie clearly wasn't made with sequels in mind?
 
The sequels don't exist, as far as i'm concerned.
 
Am I the only one who thought the first was ****ing awesome?
 
Yes you are literally the only person on halflife2.net who enjoyed Starship Troopers the movie.
 
Yes! I love being in the minority!
 
I liked the first. Its thinly veiled fascism was endearing. Also, it had everything you could ever want in a movie, except for sense.

I liked the book even better.
 
the flailing franchise’s leap to CG-animation will have to do something pretty special if Starship Troopers 4 hopes to compete with the upsurge in quality evident from this years crop of animated extravaganza’s.
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what new CG animated extravaganza (s) are they referring to?

roughnecks was ok, pretty repetitive with zero characterisation but it's draw was cg not plot/characgters. found this funny:

"The show tried to be true to an adult-oriented science fiction franchise without being too violent, mature or controversial for the age group that typically watches Saturday morning cartoons[citation needed]. As a result it was watched by neither group"



lol that anime was absolutely dreadful


@ Numbers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers#Allegations_of_fascism
 
was made in 1988

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_(OVA)

Starship Troopers (?????, Uch? no Senshi?, lit. Soldiers of Space) is a six part anime OVA produced by Sunrise/Bandai Visual and released in 1988. It is based on the book Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein that was published in 1959. This production is considered[by whom?] the "most faithful" to the original novel's plot, despite the fact that many liberties were taken with the characters and the original book's themes. For instance, Rico, an Asian Filipino in the novel, is a blonde White Argentine in the OVA. Interestingly, the main character's ethnicity in the OVA series has more in common with the Paul Verhoeven's 1997 film Starship Troopers than the source material—this despite their productions being wholly unrelated and having nearly a decade of difference.

However, unlike the 1997 film edition the most prominent link the anime has to the original book are the inclusion of powered armor and drop pods that were absent in the film—though even in this regard there are many liberties taken in their function, usage and appearance. For example, the principal weapons of the Mobile Infantry in the novel were flame throwers, missile launchers (sometimes firing small-scale tactical nukes), and backpack-mounted grenade launchers (as well as numerous utilities). By contrast, the OVA features a variety of machine guns as primary armaments, with flamethrowers and the aforementioned missile launchers acting as supplementary weapons. Another difference is that the alien antagonists of the OVA were bipedal polyp-like creatures possessing tentacles and integrated biological weapons capable firing globules of a sticky explosive compound at high muzzle velocity. The creatures were never named in the OVA, nor were their intentions or social structure analyzed (though individual creatures were observed combining to form colony structures). This stands in stark contrast to the tool-using pseudo-arachnids of the novel.

Kazutaka Miyatake of Studio Nue originally designed the powered suits in the OVA for the Japanese edition of the novel in the early '80s
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ríomhaire said:
Was 3 any good?
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It was watchable. Alot better than the train wreck that was number 2. Also it managed to capture some of the atmosphere of the first. It's problem was the abismal budget. Some of the effects were inferior to that of the first movie...

Quite frankly I find this infuriating. If the Stargate direct to DVD movies can have a decent budget and good special effects, why can't this? I guess they thought it wasn't worth the trouble...
 
...and Robert Heinlein rolls over in his grave for a fourth time.

I bet he's getting dizzy by this point.
 
Neutrino said:
Not sure if serious...?

It came out 7 years before hl2.

(sorry if you were being facetious.)
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I was wondering how you could not understand the sarcasm, then I noticed your avatar.
 
The book was excellent, one of Heinlein's best. Very political. The first movie was also excellent, but it differed greatly from the book. Haven't seen any of the sequels, and I don't plan on it.
 
Nooo! Those assholes! What are they doing?

This is the movie-equivalent of taking a mint-condition 50's muscle car, and ramming into a ****ing wall! And they've already done this two times before!

The first one was so cool. oh, my childhood... :(

jerks.
 
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