Starship Troopers: Book vs. Movie
Paul Verhoeven's 1997 film Starship Troopers adapts Robert A. Heinlein's book. Casper Van Dien plays Johnny Rico, a young recruit sent into an interstellar war against alien Arachnids.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Year
- 1959
- Pages
- 288Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 8 hr 15 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- R. C. Bray
Juan Rico enlists in Federal Service almost on impulse and finds himself assigned to the Mobile Infantry, where punishing training turns recruits into soldiers equipped with powered armor. As humanity fights an interstellar war, he works toward greater responsibility within his unit. His account connects the demands of combat with lessons about discipline, citizenship, and the obligations of serving others.
- Director
- Paul Verhoeven
- Writer
- Edward Neumeier
- Year
- 1997
- Runtime
- 2 hr 9 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey
- Genre
- action, dystopian, military science fiction, monster, science fiction, Thriller
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Johnny Rico follows his girlfriend into military service, joining the infantry while she trains as a pilot. Boot camp turns school friendships and romantic rivalries into matters of rank and survival, before war with alien Arachnids sends the recruits into combat. Official broadcasts promise glory and duty, but the soldiers arrive on hostile planets dangerously unprepared for the enemy they face.
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