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New ‘Starship Troopers’ Movie in the Works from ‘District 9’ Filmmaker Neill Blomkamp (Exclusive)
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Will it actually be faithful to the book this time?
I don't think I'd even want it to be, to be honest. The original book was really just fascist apologia, and the later adaptations of it had the foresight to use that premise instead for more effective social commentary.
Edit: I should clarify that I don't think Heinlein himself was a fascist, but Starship Troopers is easily read as such.
It can be, true, but it was about being a soldier. The setting's ideology was a military democracy, which is not the same as fascism. They can easily be conflated by bad actors though. And as recent events have demonstrated America is full of bad actors.