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Starship Troopers (film)

Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers - movie poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Produced by
Screenplay by Edward Neumeier
Based on Starship Troopers
1959 novel
by Robert A. Heinlein
Starring
Music by Basil Poledouris
Cinematography Jost Vacano
Edited by
Production
company
Distributed by
Release date
  • November 7, 1997 (1997-11-07)
Running time
129 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $105 million
Box office $121.2 million

Starship Troopers is a 1997 American satirical military science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier. It originally came from an unrelated script called Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine, but eventually licensed the name Starship Troopers from a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein. The story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry, a futuristic military unit. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to NCO and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an insectoid species known as "Arachnids".

The only theatrically released film in the Starship Troopers franchise, it received negative reviews from critics on release and grossed $121.2 million worldwide against its budget of $105 million. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 70th Academy Awards in 1998. Verhoeven says his satirical use of irony and hyperbole is "playing with fascism or fascist imagery to point out certain aspects of American society... of course, the movie is about 'Let's all go to war and let's all die.'" In 2012, Slant Magazine ranked the film #20 on its list of the 100 Best Films of the 1990s.

In the 23rd century, Earth has become a space-faring civilization. While colonizing new planets, humans have encountered an insectoid species known as Arachnids or "Bugs", with their home being the distant world Klendathu. The bugs appear to be little more than savage, unrelenting killing machines, though there are suggestions that they were provoked by the intrusion of humans into their habitats.


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