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A new fan-made trailer revisits the 1997 movie, recutting 'Starship Troopers' to resemble a 'serious' modern blockbuster.
The 1997 movie was done well and a lot of fun. I don't understand why the franchise was allowed subsequently to flounder, despite best efforts of Casper Van Dien and friends. It's strange how things like this or Jericho or Babylon 5 take on a life of their own but get shown the executive door when it comes to support for taking it to the next level. Who else would love to see a new live action film, a sequel in the spirit of the original, and with some of the original cast and characters?If somebody does a reasonably-good 6' line with a landing craft and a couple of articulated bugs, I'll be all over it. The 1997 movie was done well and a lot of fun.
I don't understand why the franchise was allowed subsequently to flounder, despite best efforts of Casper Van Dien and friends. It's strange how things like this or Jericho or Babylon 5 take on a life of their own but get shown the executive door when it comes to support for taking it to the next level. Who else would love to see a new live action film, a sequel in the spirit of the original, and with some of the original cast and characters?If somebody does a reasonably-good 6' line with a landing craft and a couple of articulated bugs, I'll be all over it.I love Academy Award Nominee Starship Troopers. Heavy, heavy DVD rotation back in the day.The reason the franchise never took off was because they didn't bring back Verhoeven when they wanted to make the sequel. Troopers had a really long tail with DVD sales and made studio more money on the back end and 5 years had passed. Never got fully behind it and cheaped out with the Direct to DVD cash grab.Statue is insanely heavy and it's too bad they went Traitor of Mars. Alien bug should be wet or glossy and the structure and ground should be matte and weather distressed.
This is exactly the opposite. The 1997 movie was done well and a lot of fun.
I don't understand why the franchise was allowed subsequently to flounder, despite best efforts of Casper Van Dien and friends. It's strange how things like this or Jericho or Babylon 5 take on a life of their own but get shown the executive door when it comes to support for taking it to the next level. Who else would love to see a new live action film, a sequel in the spirit of the original, and with some of the original cast and characters?totally agree, its weird how this franchise never took off with more fame, sequels and merchandise. It could have been another good independant standalone franchise like hellboy and predator.
When was released in 1997, the world didn’t quite know how to take it. Based on Robert A. Heinlein’s novel of the same name, critics interpreted Paul Verhoeven’s film as too militaristic, pro-war, and - in some cases - fascist, much like the book was perceived before it. What many failed to realize, however, was that the movie set out to criticize far-right ideology.In actuality, Verhoeven didn’t even finish the novel - he found it too dry and boring. However, he didn’t need to finish it in order to form a critique of the author’s message. Right-wing politics was something the director grew up knowing all too well growing up in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II.Over time, though, audiences gravitated towards Starship Troopers and these days it’s widely considered as a work of remarkable satire. It took some time, but it’s aged pretty well.To celebrate its 20th anniversary, here are 15 Things You Never Knew About Starship Troopers.
Reusing everything from stock footage to props has been a cost-effective means of making movies and television around the world for decades. In fact, you could say that recycling hand-me-downs happen almost as frequently as milking old ideas for modern reboots and copycats.Maybe originality has been a dying art for a while, but the Starship Troopers uniforms were just too good to waste.After Starship Troopers flopped at the box office and started finding its audience on video, the soldier’s armor appeared in a episode in 1999. A few years later, in 2002, they showed up in “The Train Job” episode of. The DVD commentary on Firefly also notes that these were reused again at a later date, albeit painted purple and unrecognizable.If they were good enough for Joss Whedon, they’re good enough for most. The production of Starship Troopers was no picnic in the park. In fact, filming of the movie was beset with health problems for more than one cast member.
However, it was poor Casper Van Dien who experienced the most pain.During a stunt which involved his character, Johnny Rico, jumping off a “tanker bug”, the actor experienced some rather painful misfortune. In an interview with the Cinema Source in 2006, the actor revealed how he “cracked three ribs” and was “coughing up blood” as a result. Ouch indeed.Still, his injured ribs didn’t seem to deter the star from soldiering on, as he accepted getting beaten up as just being part and parcel of such physically-demanding roles. A few years later he almost permanently injured his reputation by starring in. Casper Van Dien has appeared as Johnny Rico in the majority of the franchise’s entries, but he wasn’t the first actor they had in mind for the part.
Luckily for him, though, Mark Wahlberg and James Marsden weren’t interested.It doesn't seem like Mark Wahlberg wants to be in good movies anyway. Recently we found out that he’s ashamed of Boogie Nights, yet he’s more than happy to lend his talents to sequels.
What a confusing man.Likewise, James Marsden was another fresh-faced ‘90s hopeful considered for the role who said no. Like Wahlberg, there’s no specific reason as to why he turned it down.In all fairness, neither actor’s career suffered and they perhaps made the right decision. They’re doing alright for themselves, after all. Growing up, Verhoeven experienced Nazi-occupied Holland first-hand, so if anybody understands the ugliness that is fascist ideology it’s him. A staunch liberal, Verhoeven’s politics didn’t correspond with the nationalist and militaristic themes of the novel, so he set out to make them look ridiculous.“Ed and I disagreed with Robert Heinlein and we felt that we needed to counter with our own narrative,' he told.
'Basically the political undercurrent of the film is that these heroes and heroines are living in a fascist utopia – but they are not even aware of it! They think this is normal. And somehow you are seduced to follow them, and at the same time, made aware that they might be fascists.' While the novel doesn’t promote fascism per se, it does contain far-right politics which don’t correspond with Verhoeven’s own world view. As a work of satire on fascism, however, the movie is genius. Starship Troopers has never been praised for its acting. Even Paul Verhoeven has acknowledged that the performances weren’t the greatest.
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However, when he was looking for his actors, he wanted people who resembled the Nazi’s ideal Aryan specimens. For inspiration, he turned to 1935's pro-Nazi film.Some of the most recognizable names in the movie are actors with blond hair and white complexions, such as Neil Patrick Harris, Jake Busey, Amy Smart, and Van Dien. The film is full of good-looking Caucasians, which was done deliberately to evoke Nazi Germany.Additionally, the first scene of Starship Troopers was adapted shot-for-shot from a scene from Leni Riefenstahl’s propaganda film. The scene in question features the Mobile Infantry standing at attention, which is identical to the Nuremberg rally scene from Triumph of the Will.
Casper Van Dien wasn’t the only one to experience pain during shooting. His co-star, Jake Busey, got a little too much sun and suffered heat stroke as a result.
Have you seen Jake Busey? He doesn’t look like a guy who gets a lot of sun after all.The movie was shot in the heart of the desert. Couple that with being forced to wear a spacesuit and you can imagine how uncomfortable it must have been. Busey recalled the experience in an interview with: “It was 115 degrees, and I was standing in the sun in a suit that didn't breathe. I'm from a pretty fair-skinned white Nordic bloodline. I can't handle the sun like that.”Because of this, they had to shut down the movie’s production for a week, which Busey says cost 1.5 million a hefty dollars.
Part of the reason why Starship Troopers flopped at the box office was due to stiff competition from family-friendly fare like Bean and the re-release of. You can imagine parents were more keen for their kids’ to see the latter two movies. But the kids wanted the best of every world and found a way to see Starship Troopers anyway - and the New York Times helped.In an interview with, Van Dien spilled the beans on how the newspaper helped underage audiences see a violent R rated movie. “ The New York Times did a piece where they gave 1000 13 and 14-year-old boys tickets to Mr. Bean to see if they could sneak into Starship Troopers because people were doing that a lot at multiplexes then.
After that they had to put the kibosh on it. They think we would have doubled our income so instead of 25 million it would have been 50 if it had been a PG 13 film.”. Despite fighting for a far-right ideological cause, Johnny Rico is an endearing character and ultimately very likable. When we meet him, he’s very much in love with his high school sweetheart - played by Denise Richards - and while she seems to reciprocate the affection at first, you can’t help but feel she’s stargazing into a future that doesn’t include her boo.In the movie, it is implied that her character has feelings for her starship co-pilot and that’s because she does. In the film’s original cut, she eventually left Johnny for him.
However, test audiences were so vocally scathing about that storyline that those scenes failed to make the final cut.It’s probably for the best. In high school love is all gooey-eyed and puppy dog. Then adulthood happens, people move on to college or employment, and hearts get crushed.
Maybe it hit too close to home for those test audiences? Since its release, Starship Troopers become a certified cult classic. As such, its young actors Casper Van Dien, Neil Patrick Harris, Jake Busey, and Denise Richards have grown older and been embraced by geekdom. At the time, though, Verhoeven made sure to throw in some established cult icons to lend some gravitas to proceedings - and two just so happened to be villains in the franchise.Clancy Brown, who played the intimidating but fun Sgt. Zim in Starship Troopers, appeared opposite Christopher Lambert in the first (and best) Highlander movie as the savage Victor Kruger.
Michael Ironside, on the other hand, who played Lt. Jean Rasczak, was cast as Gen. Katana in Highlander II: The Quickening.Interestingly, both actors also appeared alongside each other 10 years before Starship Troopers in Walter Hill’s action gem Extreme Prejudice.
The Marine Corps Professional Reading Program started life as the Commandant's Reading List in 1988, but they’ve been recommended books to read as far back as the 19th century in a bid to strengthen to their knowledge and motivate them for war. While each Commandant since 1988 has added their own suggestions to the program since its inception, many of the books have been on it since its inception, including Starship Troopers.A sci-fi novel about killing bugs might seem silly in many ways, but the themes which resonate within the pages of Starship Troopers appeal to the mindset needed for Marine life. The book has also influenced military concepts and their war-gear; for example, it’s been hailed as the inspiration for introducing face shields.In addition to the Marine Corps, the novel is also required reading for the US Navy. The film’s starship, Rodger Young, was named a posthumous US Medal of Honor recipient who was killed who gave up his life so his comrades could escape heavy gunfire at the hands of Japanese troops. The movie's Sergeant Zim was also based on Young, as the real-life soldier gave up his position as an instructor so that he could join the Privates on the front-line.The ship’s name was carried over from the novel. Young’s war heroics were clearly admired by the author and corresponded with the writer’s evident patriotism. While there’s no denying the soldier’s bravery to give up his life to save his unit, the film doesn’t seem to acknowledge it.
You could argue that Zim cares for the Privates, but the character is also a pompous war-hungry stereotype as well. Before it became an adaptation of Heinlein’s novel, the film was originally supposed to be called Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine. However, when similarities were noted between the Ed Neumeier's concept and the classic sci-fi tale, the rights to the book were licensed and the story was mined source material.Given that the film started out as an original script, there are several differences between the book and the film.
In fact, the movie is a pretty loose adaptation, with events and characters tweaked at the behest of Neumeier and Verhoeven. For example, in the book, Johnny is called Juan.
Additionally, the film is ideologically opposed to the viewpoints Heinlein expresses in the novel, which we’ll discuss further later on.That said, doesn’t Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine sounds like a perfect Asylum knock-off movie? Someone should make that happen. Seattle math rockers Minus the Bear are a band who don’t take themselves too seriously. Sure, when it comes to the music itself, they’re the real deal, but if you judged the band solely by their chosen song titles you’d assume they were a strange comedy act.Their debut album, Highly-Refined Pirates, was released in 2002 and it is an impressive musical feat which boasts plenty of originality. With that record, they crafted and honed a distinct sound from the get-go and have since expanded and mastered their craft even further.
But with songs entitled “You Kill Bugs Good, Man” and “Damn Bugs Whacked Him, Johnny”, they clearly set out to have some fun and celebrate Verhoeven’s sci-fi satire as well as launch a credible music career.The meaning of the songs don’t pertain to Starship Troopers beyond their titles, but there’s bug DNA to be found over this release all the same. Much like Verhoeven’s previous anti-authoritarian movie, Starship Troopers’ satire is often implemented through the use of commercials within the movie. The recruitment videos and merchandise ads aimed towards kids to instil militaristic attitudes in them are prime examples of how the Verhoeven hammers his message home like a clobber to the head.However, he probably didn’t anticipate a real political party copying his biting satire for their own agenda.
Yet, it happened in 1998 when Australia’s far-right One Nation party mimicked the use of the 'Do you want to know more?' Advertisements from the film in a bid to attract younger members.They were probably unaware of the satirical nature of the ads, or maybe they just thought they could mold the slogan to fit their own narrative, much like Verhoeven twisted Heinlein’s novel to suit his own.
The party didn’t succeed at all, however, but it was a good attempt nonetheless. Paul Verhoeven has a filmography most directors would sell their soul for. Between S tarship Troopers, Robocop, and even, his oeuvre comprises of both masterpieces and unsung gems that have found fans over time. He considers Starship Troopers to be his best work, however, and he's ardently opposed to this one being remade.Of course the director's work has been remade before. In this case, though, he thinks it would be dangerous. The proposed remake incurred the Dutchman's wrath as the idea is to make it more in spirit of the novel.
In the current divided political climate, Verhoeven doesn't think that's wise.In an interview with, he said: '“It said in the article that the production team of that movie of the remake, that they would go back more and more towards the novel. And of course, we really, really tried to get away from the novel, because we felt that the novel was fascistic and militaristic,” said Verhoeven. “You feel that going back to the novel would fit very much in a Trump Presidency.”-Are you fan of Starship Troopers? Are there any other facts we've missed you'd like to add? If so, sound off in the comments. Screen Rant – Privacy PolicyWe respect your privacy and we are committed to safeguarding your privacy while online at oursite. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Website.This Privacy Policy was last updated on May 10, 2018.
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