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Starship troopers save game4/8/2023 ![]() Sony Pictures wants to use Starship Troopers to launch a new cinematic universe. Almost immediately, one can see the quandary the new crew has put themselves in. Jump once again twenty-five years later to Sony Pictures hiring Neil Moritz and co. Instead of celebrating the army or a centralist government (quasi-fascist?) they cleverly mock it and satirize its ideals. Contrary to Heinlein’s major thrust, Verhoeven and Neumeier come at the material from the opposite viewpoint. RELATED: Star Wars: Finn’s Backstory Could Be The Blueprint To An Awesome Star Wars MovieĬut to thirty-eight years later when Ed Neumeier adapts that novel into the bombastic explosive picture fans all know and love. Though his novel was a financial and literary success, even influencing science fiction literature to this day, in its time it was met with criticism and controversy over the glorification of the military and Heinlein’s staunch political views. It won a Hugo Award in 1960 for Best Novel and became his best-known story (his body of work is wide and varied and there is certainly much to be enjoyed). ![]() Starship Troopers was originally a military science fiction novel by Robert Heinlein released at the end of the 1950s. ![]()
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