Sony has announced the arrival date for their Direct to DVD Starship Troopers sequel. Expect Starship Troopers 3: Marauder on store shelves July 29th. That’ll put it up against another major science fiction release: Stargate Continuum.

For this second DTV sequel Casper Van Dien returns as Johnny Rico. The plot, presumably, revolves around futuristic soldiers fighting alien bugs. I wonder if it bothers them to be called bugs?

What Starship Troopers really needs though isn’t Casper Van Dien. They need to invest in bringing back Neil Patrick Harris. If NPH can make Harold & Kumar good, just imagine what he could do returning to the world of Starship Troopers. What would NPH do? Make anything he’s in awesome. Also he’d kill bugs with his crazy mind bullets.