💸 Gunzilla Games, the studio linked to Neill Blomkamp, is in a pay scandal: several current and former staff say wages went unpaid for months. Animator Paul Creamer, who joined in March 2025 and left after a year, claims payments stopped in October while management allegedly told people to keep working and that delays were temporary. After his post the studio reportedly stopped replying and deleted messages; others, a programmer...

#SteamAndEpic #Gunzilla #Blomkamp #Animator #Creamer #October

#StarshipTroopers #fascism #Blomkamp #SciFi

"Studios have been trying to rework this thing since at least 2016. The latest attempt, according to the Hollywood Reporter, will see District 9’s Neill Blomkamp, once the coming man of sci-fi, taking the reins.

You might think that Blomkamp, with his flair for gritty dystopia and penchant for socially conscious sci-fi carnage, would be the perfect film-maker to reignite the spirit of gleeful nihilism that infected Verhoeven’s best work from the 80s and 90s. And you wouldn’t be far off, except that studio Sony, AKA Columbia Pictures, appears to have decided (according to reports) that the only way to bring this one back to the big screen is to jettison the subversive tone and instead lean in to the Riefenstahlian chest-thumping militarism of the original source novel by Heinlein. "

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/21/starship-troopers-remake-ditch-the-anti-fascist-satire

UGH. Ok, I get recommendation algorithms and all... but just because I watched Elysium that one time because "oh hay, its directed by that Blomkamp guy who did District 9" now its all Matt Damon this and Matt Damon that.

#mattdamon #blomkamp #doesanyonereadthehastags