Ain’t It Cool News has posted a report from Comic-Con 2003 in which the writer attended a panel on the upcoming Starship Troopers 2:
Next, I stumbled into an intriguing panel on Starship Troopers 2. Paul M. Sammon, Ed Neumier, and Brenda Strong gave an intriguing panel. Ed discussed the reason for the changes in the first film and why their message was very different from what Heinlein was trying to say in the 1950’s. A very interesting discussion about how war and militarism breeds fascism ensued, [Good Lord! -- Bill] and how a movie made during the first gulf war is even more relevant during our current altercation in Iraq. The sequel is going to be more of a horror movie along the lines of Alien (a trapped group that has to get out of a messy situation), compared to the politically/socially conscious first film.
This doesn’t offer much hope that this movie will be closer to what RAH intended with Starship Troopers.
If they wanted to make a movie about fascists out killing alien bugs, why didn’t they wrote their own movie, instead of perverting ST? Why? Because they wanted to cash in on the Heinlein name, but lacked the reasoning power to understand the theme of the book (let alone the science), which is decidedly anti-fascist.
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