Paul Verhoeven

What Paul Verhoeven movie will Hollywood remake next? A remake of Total Recall opens next year. A Robocop remake is on track for 2013. Now comes word that the producer of the Fast & the Furious movies is readying a reboot of Starship Troopers.

Director Paul Verhoeven has become known for a lot of things thanks to his film career. He's the kind of director who does not shy away from sex and violence and if we're lucky that's exactly what we're gonna get lots of from his next feature.

There are very few, very few, films in this world that I love more than Paul Verhoeven's 1987 masterpiece, RoboCop. It's a near-perfect mixture of hilarious satire, unabashedly brutal violence and with underlying story of humanity to give it some heart. Very few films are this good. Period. And that's why I'm excited about this news.

Sure, it sounds like good news at first. Kurt Wimmer, the man responsible for the inexplicable cult favorite Equilibrium (and Ultraviolet, too, just to prove he’s not infallible), is attached to write a remake of Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 classic Total Recall.

Just a few days ago we learned that Paul Verhoeven is on board to help develop and subsequently direct The Surrogate, a story about a childless couple who hire a surrogate that turns out to be insane.

I think I speak for everyone when I say that Paul Verhoeven needs to make more movies. Hell, if you haven’t ‘suffered’ through the absolutely perverse delights of The 4th Man, you’re not really alive! And don’t get me started on RoboCop - absolute perfection.