NewStarship TroopersMovie Coming Soon withDistrict 9Director Neill Blomkamp

Mar. 15, 2025

Casper Van Dien in “Starship Troopers” (1997).Photo:TriStar Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty

TriStar Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty

Johnny Rico will do his part once again!

District 9director Neill Blomkamp is set to write and direct a newStarship Troopersadaptation for Columbia Pictures, PEOPLE can confirm.The Hollywood Reporterwas first to report the news.

The Oscar-nominated director will produce the project alongside his wife Teri Tatchell, who co-wrote the sci-fi thrillerDistrict 9andChappie.

The star-studded crew appeared as young and sexy military recruits who find themselves on various ends of Earth’s battle with bug-like creatures known as Arachnids.

Neill Blomkamp on Oct. 15, 2021.Juan Naharro Gimenez/Getty

Juan Naharro Gimenez/Getty

Van Dien, 55, who reunited with the cast of the cult classic at the 2024New York Comic-Con, recently spoke with PEOPLE about his love for the franchise and how it “gave me my career, basically.”

“It’s something that people always associate with me. I can’t go anywhere without people yelling quotes at me,” he added. “When you can have a movie that affects people in that way, in that depth, it doesn’t matter what it is,” he says of fans who have told him how muchStarship Troopershas had a lasting impact on them over the years, “This movie, for some reason, really resonates with people.”

Blomkamp most recently directedGran Turismofor Sony Pictures, which grossed over $122 million worldwide. Blomkamp’s sci-fi hitDistrict 9earned four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay for Blomkamp and Tatchell.

source: people.com