Verhoeven tried one more time with 'Hollow Man,' and then he decided to take a long break from American filmmaking. I had been protected by studios who were much more director-oriented.'Ĭarolco fell apart in 1995 and Orion was acquired by MGM in 1997, so Verhoeven worked with Sony to make his huge budget sci-fi epic 'Starship Troopers.' Instability at the film studio with rapidly changing leadership allowed the filmmaker to get away with much more than he normally would have, but he still got a taste of what it was like to work for major companies in the U.S., and he did not like it. It was only very late when these smaller companies began to disappear, I became aware slowly about how American studios in general work. Written in a few weeks in reaction to the US suspending nuclear tests, the story was first published as a two-part serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction as Starship Soldier, and published as a book by G. He's responsible, he gets the glory - or the blame, of course, if it doesn't work. Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. The director explained to Empire how filmmaking used to work for him with the independents and said, 'these were led by people that all felt that after choosing the director then everything should be in his hands, which is very European, of course. Given the controversy surrounding Starship Troopers the book and, to be blunt, some of the flaws of the book itself, which reads much like polemic with (too) many scenes taking place inside. Heinlein 217,730 ratings, 4.01 average rating, 6,859 reviews Open Preview Starship Troopers Quotes Showing 61-90 of 203 to the everlasting glory of the infantry, shines the name, shines the name of Rodger Young Robert A.

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