Starship Troopers Remake will be Pro-Fascism; For Kids
“Verhoeven took [Robert Heinlein's 1959 novel] from one extreme and made it almost comical, whereas our job is to be a little more faithful to the book, and ground it a little more.”
What’s planned sounds like it will ditch the satire in favour of a straighter action play. “Verhoeven made his movie a critique of fascism,” says Jaffe, “whereas Heinlein was writing from the perspective of someone who had served in World War II. [b]Y’know, one man’s fascism is another man’s patriotism…”[/b]