Starship Troopers: Invasion
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Kerr Avon
Master Member
Anyone who seriously calls it a HALO ripoff is woefully ignorant of SCIFI landmark novels and should get the **** slapped out of them. I'm pretty sure Jon was kidding.
crabra comander
Master Member
Wait those bugs look like ripoff's from Them!
Solo4114
Master Member
More likely they're appx. 15 and don't know any better.
Which, of course, does not mitigate the need to slap the **** out of them.
SmilingOtter
Master Member
OK, I'm now less excited. From the website:
A distant Federation outpost Fort Casey comes under attack by bugs. The team on the fast attack ship Alesia is assigned to help the Starship John A. Warden stationed in Fort Casey evacuate along with the survivors and bring military intelligence safely back to Earth. Carl Jenkins, now ministry of Paranormal Warfare, takes the starship on a clandestine mission before its rendezvous with the Alesia and goes missing in the nebula. Now, the battle-hardened troopers are charged with a rescue mission that may lead to a much more sinister consequence than they ever could have imagined....
So it's in the same mold as the movies. Well played, executive producer Casper Van Dien. You fooled me quite expertly with your trailer, sir.
A distant Federation outpost Fort Casey comes under attack by bugs. The team on the fast attack ship Alesia is assigned to help the Starship John A. Warden stationed in Fort Casey evacuate along with the survivors and bring military intelligence safely back to Earth. Carl Jenkins, now ministry of Paranormal Warfare, takes the starship on a clandestine mission before its rendezvous with the Alesia and goes missing in the nebula. Now, the battle-hardened troopers are charged with a rescue mission that may lead to a much more sinister consequence than they ever could have imagined....
So it's in the same mold as the movies. Well played, executive producer Casper Van Dien. You fooled me quite expertly with your trailer, sir.
SmilingOtter
Master Member
Double post.
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bish
New Member
I was one of the editors on Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles and while at the time it was about as good as could be done for TV with the amount of time and technology that could be mustered, it was quickly outpaced as technology and talent in computer animation progressed at a faster and faster pace. But I'm really excited to see Starship Troopers being done with modern CG. I'll definitely check it out.
Jack T Chance
Sr Member
Wow, that's cool. I've been thinking about pulling out the DVDs and watching that show again. About a decade ago, maybe slightly more, I used to post on the Roughnecks Forums to talk about the show. It's so disappointing that Sony/Columbia/Tri-Star didn't allow you folks to produce the final few episodes to finish the story.
epilepticsquirl
Sr Member
Nope, we were left with a cliffhanger of Carl's prediction of a huge battle to come. I was hoping this might have been some closure to that but after reading the synopsis it isn't. I'm still going to watch it though.
bish
New Member
Wow, that's cool. I've been thinking about pulling out the DVDs and watching that show again. About a decade ago, maybe slightly more, I used to post on the Roughnecks Forums to talk about the show. It's so disappointing that Sony/Columbia/Tri-Star didn't allow you folks to produce the final few episodes to finish the story.
Yeah part of that was when the show was conceived it was originally going to be done as traditional animation. Then at the last minute they were convinced it could be done CG. However the show had already been sold to the syndication company so the time given to produce the show was locked in. Then two of the three effects studios working on it, Netter Digital and another whose name I've forgotten, couldn't hack the schedule and the really badly animated episodes at the begining were done by them. They dropped out, leaving Foundation Imaging to pick up all the slack. Unfortunately it was next to impossible for us to catch up and get it all out on time and Sony just decided to create the clip shows and cut episodes which left the ending hanging. I wish I had got ahold of the scripts for the ending. I remember them floating around but don't remember specifics. They are probably out there somewhere heh.
The sad thing is that after doing that show Foundation Imaging was supposed to begin work on the Heavy Gear animated show, however at the last minute Sony sent the show up to Mainframe in Canada and Foundation had to lay off a majority of the employees they had hired for Starship Troopers. This was kind of the start of the death spiral for Foundation Imaging which unfortunately had so much potential cut short.
Anyway, It was crazy and fun, but back on topic, this new version has a lot of potential as well I really hope it goes well.
- bish
crabra comander
Master Member
With Casper Van Dien at the helm, it is destined for greatness!
epilepticsquirl
Sr Member
Check out the tumblr page for some really great concept art from the movie.
Starship Troopers: Invasion
I'm digging some of the sketches they've been putting out.
I'm still on the fence with the power suits.
But it looks like we'll have some proper exo suits similar to the Roughnecks.
Looking good!
Live forever Apes.
Starship Troopers: Invasion
I'm digging some of the sketches they've been putting out.
I'm still on the fence with the power suits.
But it looks like we'll have some proper exo suits similar to the Roughnecks.
Looking good!
Live forever Apes.
Hope this is good...
Nick
Nick
darkchylde80
Well-Known Member
I'm in! Love Starship Troopers, even though 2 and 3 didn't hit the spot for me, this looks like it could be a great return.
epilepticsquirl
Sr Member
A little something from the Japan site:
Power Suit's
Prosthetics
Ships
I'm really digging The "John A Warden" :love
Power Suit's
Prosthetics
Ships
I'm really digging The "John A Warden" :love
