Neill Blomkamp is to direct a fresh adaptation of Starship Troopers, and it’s likely to be very different to the 1997 film many of you may know and love.

Columbia Pictures has tapped District 9 director Neill Blomkamp to write and direct a new Starship Troopers film, according to The Hollywood Reporter, giving the franchise its first live-action entry since 2008’s Starship Troopers 3: Marauder.

The upcoming Starship Troopers film from Sony won't be based on the 1997 film that Helldivers 2 draws a lot of inspiration from. Rather, as reported by Deadline, this Sony Starship Troopers film will instead go back to the 1959 sci-fi novel as its source material, which was written by Robert A. Heinlein.