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Starship Troopers but unironic this time.
Star Trek but they're exporting space Christianity to the unwashed masses of aliens
Star Wars but the bad guys are the rebels who are also not even slightly thinly veiled stand-ins for antifa
Honestly I can't wait, please make it happen, there's nothing I like more than chuds burning their own money on failed projects.
The sad thing is, a quasi-legitimate chud Star Wars (essentially one that would have respectable effects and star a bunch of either F-list celebrities or legitimate talents who need a paycheck) would probably do respectable business.
Don't me wrong, it would not be in the territory of the actual movies, but it could easily make $50 to $100 million. I mean, God's Not Dead made $64 million in theaters alone.
Wait a minute, I've got it.
Fellas, we're finally getting our Warhammer 40k TV series.
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.
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.
There's an anime adaptation that's pretty close to the book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_(OVA)
Can't wait for the new "The Empire did nothing wrong" extended canon to drop
Chud Star Wars would be all the awful shit from the EU that Lucas Film greenlight, big emphasis on white great men and submissive tradwives, it'd be fucking horrid.
Okay so here's my pitch
It starts exactly the same. I'm talking cut and paste opening crawl, Princess Leia getting captured, the whole thing, except when we get to Luke staring at the sunset he stares dead into the camera and delivers a 10 minute monologue on how much he hates those damned sand people. Then he goes to join the Empire and become a stormtrooper. Princess Leia is never mentioned again.
From there we have him and Darth Vader stomping rebels for the rest of the film, who are simultaneously presented as cowardly and a threat to Law and Order, because obviously. Vader is exactly the same, except he's now shot as a good guy, and at no point do they expect you to question any of his actions.
Han Solo is an ancap. That's the whole deal with his character. I haven't worked out how he would be worked in, but they probably wouldn't be able to either. That wouldn't stop them though. Also the Millennium Falcon is now the Millennium Eagle, both for copyright reasons and patriotism.
The film ends with the death star blowing up the rebel death star. Darth Vader delivers a painful one liner. Patriotic music swells, Luke says something about freedom, and Han cracks a beer. Someone makes a racist joke about Chewbacca, a common theme throughout the film. End credits.
I don't know what possessed me to write that out, but I do know I regret it.
Chud version of Star Wars is just watching Starship Troopers without understanding that it’s satire.
Yeah let me know how voting with your wallet works out for you buddy
Someone tell Dave the rebels represented the Vietcong in the original trilogy.
Those godless ewoks need to get off the empire's lithium deposit staring Mark Walberg
I wish Star Wars would be canceled. I hate it, but I go see every new movie in theater.
I tried streaming it, but the buffer rate was slow and the bits I saw didn't make me want to wait for the rest.
I also tried reading the Wikipedia entry, but got bored and wandered off.
I don't either, because I can't tell the movies apart. It's just a boring mass to me.
“Actually the empire is good. They gave the galaxy
railroadshyperspace corridors”the part he leaves out is that after cancelling it he called them back and started his subscription again
