No NPH? No rental. Perhaps the makers of Starship Troopers 3: Marauder should have thrown a good portion of that $20 million budget (yes, it’s direct-to-DVD) at Neil Patrick Harris, the token star of Paul Verhoeven’s campy, nihilistic 1997 original. The Japanese trailer has arrived and while it looks much better than anything I may have accidentally gleamed from the first home-market sequel, so does a half-eaten, six-day old meatball sub and Lost Boys 2. Do you think the Japanese subtitles here make everything seem that much more happy-joy? I do.
The SST franchise should really consider a move into the TV ether or webisodes. Casper Van Dien is back (from the dead?) as trooper Johnny Rico, the bugs are abundant and don’t look too disagreeable (Tremors 9 eat your Kevin Bacon stand-in’s heart out), and marking his debut as a director, Robocop writer Edward Neumeier has clearly found a canon to expand for a certain loyal fanbase (greetings). But I’m not sure the original film’s satirical B-movie propaganda works in the context of an actual B-movie. Almost meta, but not. There are shades of Battlestar Galactica here and shades of…okay, I’m just going to be nice.
Starship Troopers 3: Marauder will be released on DVD on August 5th, 2008.
Discuss: What did you think of the trailer for SST3? Who is the coolest exterminator character in film history?
source: io9
June 4th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
-coolest exterminator ever is john goodman in ‘arachniphobia’.
-imo, this trailer looks fun & campy, just what i’d expect from this series.
-nph would make it alot cooler.
-any theories why casper vd had no real career? i thought when he first started making films we’d see him in bigger roles…man o man was i wrong.
June 4th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Looks the same to me…the trailer looked like a video game :P
June 4th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Hunter got it right when he said the franchise should move on to television.
The first movie got it right, ultra camp and gory fun. The second movie… not so much. This one seems to be a step in the right direction but still seems to lack that intangible magic that the first one had (has) for me.
June 4th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Starship Troopers was a classic, everyone I know loves the movie, which is what surprised me when the second one was direct to DVD. ST3 definitely looks better than 2, but there’s just something about the first one that’s so good. It’s a real shame, I liked the storyline a lot, I wish they would have done something other than the total piece that was ST2. Perhaps that revelation about the “brain bug” will make a reappearance?
June 4th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
wait, there was a part II? The best exterminator has to be THE CROW, i guess. bronson was lame (they def need to remake that. its a no brainer). WE REALLY NEED AN OVER THE TOP SEQUEL. LETS GO PEOPLE LETS MAKE IT HAPPEN. thanks
June 4th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Looks as good as Indy 4
June 4th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
@Gajonka
Yeah, there was a part two, but Ive heard it was so bad, that I never really watched it.
June 4th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
I still can’t believe how horribly they butchered the book….
June 4th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
@ Captain Awesome
r u trying to say its gonna be good or not cuz its mixed feelings about indy 4 on the net, i say it rock (apart from nuke the fride and aliens)
back on topic this better be better the st2, i fell asleep though that movie twice and had to keep rewatching it
June 4th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
I’d watch it. Looks like a fun rental.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
@ nick
Please fix your grammar.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:13 am
looks kinda nifty for a direct to dvd product,nice touch bringing back casper for the main lead,and some new bug creatures look sweet -
im in
June 5th, 2008 at 7:47 am
they should let me direct the next one, i have some ideas on how to capture that campy feel again
June 5th, 2008 at 7:58 am
Yeah. It looks neat. I like how they stuck with miniatures (as far as I can tell), instead of trying to do everything with crappy CGI. I really liked that about the first movie.
June 5th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Hold On…was there a part 2?
June 5th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
@ Jr. Said Monkey:
Apparently yes, but it was so bad that I wouldnt even bother downloading it.
June 5th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
what’s not to like? now if they can just get bring back the Dina Meyers character as a naked, DNA enhanced, cyborg-clone-zombie supersoldier, this would be unchartable.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:07 am
All 3 Starship Troopers films will be coming out on Blu this Aug in the US (box set and separate) btw.
June 17th, 2008 at 8:19 am
hello I live in Mexico and have a question, this third film was direct to DVD? or some countries in cinema?
August 7th, 2008 at 1:51 am
I downloaded and watched the HD version, but I needed to delete because it was so crappy. IMDB 2/10.
August 9th, 2008 at 11:45 am
I’m not sure who is reporting the budget of STARSHIP TROOPERS 3 as 20 million. In fact it was less than 9million. Many of us who worked on this worked on our own time to help make it as good as possible under the circumstances.
We do appreciate hearing from those who enjoyed the film, after all that work.
thanks,
robert s.