Sony is behind the new adaptation, which is not a remake of Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 film, but rather will go back to the 1959 novel as source material.

The District 9 filmmaker is working on a new Starship Troopers movie for Sony's Columbia Pictures division, Entertainment Weekly has confirmed. The film will be a new adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 novel rather than a direct remake of Paul Verhoeven 's 1997 movie, which followed a group of young recruits who go to war against alien "bugs."

Neill Blomkamp is set to write and direct an adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel story, Starship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein.