According to film stars Jake Busey and Casper van Diem it looks as if the duo will be reprising their respective roles from the movie, Starship Troopers, this time around in a televised series. The pair will be returning as Ace Levy and Juan “Johnny” Rico, although much further along in their military careers — perhaps as drill instructors or commanders of mobile infantry platoons — since the original film appeared way back in 1997.

Ed Neumeier, the film’s screenwriter, is being asked to develop the series and other notable actors from the original film could be back as well, although its not clear who are being asked to return and whether or not they have agreed to reboot their former roles. A remake of the classic film is also expected later this year, albeit with a different cast and screenwriter. If the film and television series take off, you can bet certain model makers will be giving the franchise the once over to see if it can be brought to sci-fi enthusiasts the world over.

For the handful of people not familiar with the franchise, Starship Troopers stands as sci-fi writer’s Robert Heinlein’s seminal work in which humanity is pitted against an alien race of over-sized insects called the Arachnids. Seen through the eyes of the so-called Mobile Infantry, Heinlein mixes a good bit of political drama and off-beat wit within a taut yarn that describes what its like to first train as a mobile infantryman of the future and then take on the Arachnids in all its gore and glory. Do you want to learn more?