[cuban leaf]

I have to admit that I would enjoy an ADULT version of the film that captures the themes he was trying to present through science fiction. It would be awesome.

[cuban leaf]

In that vein I’d also like to see The Forever War put to film.

[MinorityRepublican]

How about this? Let’s not make any TV shows or movies for the next 10 years?

[Blood of Tyrants]

I love Heinlein even though he had a distinct Oedipus complex.

[The Louiswu]

It’s GOT to have power suits and the book version combat drop.

[CodeToad]

Homosexual movie? No thanks.

[Third Person]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu9ykgGUm1w&list=RDYu9ykgGUm1w&start_radio=1

[JimBianchi11]

Great book!

I must have read it 50+ years ago.

The movie was OK and i would love to a better version.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

It’ll be crap, even if it’s a different style of crap from the 1997 movie. I won’t be watching this one either.

[military cop]

They already released it in 97.
Dizz has been on my alibi list ever since……

[BradyLS]

I would love to see a faithful adaptation of Starship Troopers. Maybe just a little more, and one I think would actually resonate better these days, is a faithful adaptation of Heinlein’s The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.

[ZOOKER]

Heinlein is one my favorite authors.

The movie doesn't exactly follow the book, true, but you couldn't sell a movie like that.

RAH's target audience was pre-pubescent boys, so his focus was mostly on action/adventure, not co-ed showers and pup-tent quickies.

Later in his career, he wrote some pretty racy stuff, but this wasn't --- not originally.

[montag813]

Why would the creator of the totally original ‘District 8’ want sloppy seconds on a 1997 film? Out of ideas like everyone else in Hollyweird? No thanks.

[Pontiac]

Don’t get me wrong, I love Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 cut, not least because Verhoeven tried and failed to satirize the subject matter.

The movie was CRAP

Yes he tried and failed to satirize the book.

A good satirization would have been funny.

His movie was sad and incoherent.

[FlatulusMaximus]

Sign me up! I loved District 9 and Chappie.

[BradyLS]

Neil Blomkamp has a tall order in making a faithful adaptation of Starship Troopers. This movie could easily break him even if he does a great job. Explaining “The Franchise” to an audience in 2020something would be enough to make their heads explode. I wish him well and look forward to seeing his adaptation.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It's ancient Sparta gone interstellar.

Not even close.

And it is not even "structured along extremely hierarchical and militaristic lines".

The basic concept of the society was if you want to be a voter you need to show first that you were willing to serve the community. And while the book follows someone who joined the military (because most other options would have made for a boring book) the military was not the only path.

One of the early chapters talks about this and how they would find a way for anyone who wanted to do their (I think it was two years) of service to do it. I believe the example used was a deaf and blind guy who was in a wheelchair and if he wanted to serve they would find a job for him. Once he had completed his service he was just as much a voting citizen as the greatest military hero.

Because it was not what you did but that you were willing to give of yourself to do it.

If you want to do the book justice you need to get the world building right.

[yuleeyahoo]

To the everlasting glory of the infantry
Shines the name, shines the name of Rodger Young!

[Jeff Chandler]

I loved the book; I loved the movie.

They were two different tellings of the same story.

[PLMerite]

It'd be very hard to out-hot Denise Richards.