'Starship Troopers' Reboot: With Less Violence

Though the planned reboot of Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 original film, Starship Troopers, will pull back  violence in the film, according to producer Toby Jaffe, the positive news is that the film is still pressing ahead.

In a recent interview with Empire, Toby Jaffe stated, "The more expensive a film is, the harder it is now to make it that violent," With Recall in particular, we made a conscious choice to keep it tonally closer to something like Minority Report. It gives the studio, and us as producers, the opportunity to reintroduce it in a new way."

Jaffe who is also producing the upcoming summer movie Total Recall remake told Empire that the new version of Starship Troopers will stick more closely to the original content from Robert Heinlein’s 1959 novel.

"Verhoeven made his movie a critique of fascism," says Jaffe, "whereas Heinlein was writing from the perspective of someone who had served in World War II. Y'know, one man's fascism is another man's patriotism..."

With that being said, another advancement to the film is the use of more visual effects which will make it easier to bring in more futuristic elements. Even though the film is probably headed towards a PG-13 rating, which understandably can aim towards a broader audience, you also have to keep in mind that it can also separate us true fans from the reboot, remembering such an awesome film! But until then, we'll keep you posted with future information and hope we end up getting a nice surprise.

Source: Empire

X-Men First Class Movie Sequel | Lauren Shuler Donner on Future of X-Men!

With the release of Blu-ray and DVD today of X-Men First Class, X-Men movie producer Lauren Shuler Donner has become a quotable woman! There are blogs, interviews and postings of her words everywhere on the net! But I want to share them with you all!  So are there hopes in finding Cyclops, Deadpool, and Jean Grey in the X-Men First Class Sequel? Well, read on my friend and find out.  One thing we know for sure is, they want to stay in the next [time] period.

On The Wolverine:

“It’s much more of a standalone. [We want] to distinguish it from the other one… I’m not sure when we’ll start. Maybe summer 2012 we’ll start shooting. It’s based on Hugh [Jackman]’s schedule, frankly. When he’s available, we’ll film. He’s doing Les Miserables, and then he has to come and train for us. So it’s all dependent on him.” HitFix

On Deadpool:

“We’re working on getting it ready, and presenting some things to the studio, cause we’re gonna give it a little bit of a different look. It’s a different kind of movie. If you know Deadpool… it’s true to Deadpool. So you know, it’ll be violent, and outrageous, and funny, and all that.” HitFix


“With Ryan [Reynolds] absolutely. Can you see anybody else in it?” IAmRogue

“[Deadpool] was treated totally wrong in the Wolverine film and yes we will redeem him. We have a few more things to do and then it’s up to the studio to decide whether we’re going to go forward or not.” Total Film

On X-Men: First Class Sequel:

“I hope so. We’re talking about it, you know, we’re seriously talking about it. We definitely want Matthew [Vaughn] to come back. Absolutely!” HitFix

(And on whether Cyclops and Jean Grey might appear…)

“Maybe. Let’s just say, I hope so.” Home Media Magazine

“Well, if we were going to sequelize this and keep on going, we would stay in the next [time] period. Probably we’d go to the 70’s.” Crave Online

On The Hellfire Club nearly-movie:

“Bryan [Singer] wanted to bring another element into [X-Men: First Class]. I had always wanted to do the Hellfire Club because they’re really fascinating. I almost wanted to spin them off into another movie. So I mentioned the Hellfire Club to him and he grabbed and said, ‘That is a great idea.’… [the spin-off] didn’t get to script. It got to formulating who we would use and which story we would use because there’s the whole Jean Grey part of the Hellfire story… I like the whole Jean Grey involvement. I thought that was really interesting.” Total Film