The Starship Troopers book does not read as ironic (or it is veeeery subtle), so maybe they'll just make a direct adaptation of that but with more Americans and the protagonist just being white instead of him being of semi-ambiguous racial descent.
It is not ironic. Heinlein was basically advocating for Fascism.
Paul Verhoeven's 1997 Starship Troopers is very blatant satire of Fascism, though a lot of people missed it at the time. Allegedly he never even read the book, just paged threw a few lines and said "This is fascist trash!" then threw it away.
I stopped after two chapters because it was so boring … It is really quite a bad book. I asked Ed Neumeier to tell me the story because I just couldn't read the thing. It's a very right-wing book
-Verhoeven, on the book
I read it when I was much younger (and more blind to the political themes), but it wasn't terribly interesting to me either. So much of it was dry and needless to my memory
The book isn't ironic, Heinlein was pretty fash, and the movie was in part a response to it.
I could see a "book accurate" adaptation of Starship Troopers doing really well. A big, dumb action blockbuster - essentially Avatar but the aliens are the bad guys - and it would get infinite free press from people arguing over it on Twitter.
The Starship Troopers book does not read as ironic (or it is veeeery subtle), so maybe they'll just make a direct adaptation of that but with more Americans and the protagonist just being white instead of him being of semi-ambiguous racial descent.
It is not ironic. Heinlein was basically advocating for Fascism.
Paul Verhoeven's 1997 Starship Troopers is very blatant satire of Fascism, though a lot of people missed it at the time. Allegedly he never even read the book, just paged threw a few lines and said "This is fascist trash!" then threw it away.
That's actually hilarious.
-Verhoeven, on the book
I read it when I was much younger (and more blind to the political themes), but it wasn't terribly interesting to me either. So much of it was dry and needless to my memory
The book isn't ironic, Heinlein was pretty fash, and the movie was in part a response to it.
I could see a "book accurate" adaptation of Starship Troopers doing really well. A big, dumb action blockbuster - essentially Avatar but the aliens are the bad guys - and it would get infinite free press from people arguing over it on Twitter.
There's an anime adaptation that's pretty close to the book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_(OVA)