Sony Pictures announced on Tuesday that it will theatrically release Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars, the new CG-animated sequel to the 1997 film Starship Troopers, in Japan on February 10 under the title Starship Troopers: Red Planet.
Shinji Aramaki, the director for the 2012 CG-animated film Starship Troopers: Invasion, returned to direct the new film.
Before Paul Verhoeven’s loose 1997 live-action film adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein’s original Starship Troopers novel and its several direct-to-video follow-ups, Gundam anime studio Sunrise produced a video version of Starship Troopers in 1988.
Comedian DeRay Davis, a fan of Starship Troopers, also had a role in the film.