Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers is a 1997 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier, based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert A. Heinlein. Set in the 23rd century, the story follows teenager Johnny Rico and his friends serving in the military of the United Citizen Federation, an Earth world government engaged in interstellar war with an alien species of Arachnids. The film stars Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Muldoon, and Michael Ironside.
Plot
In the 23rd century, Earth is governed by the United Citizen Federation, a stratocratic regime founded generations earlier by "veterans" after democracy and social scientists brought civilization to the brink of ruin. Citizenship is exclusively earned through federal service, which grants rights—like voting and procreation—that are withheld from ordinary civilians. Humans, who are now spacefaring, conduct colonization missions throughout the galaxy, bringing them into conflict with a race of highly evolved insectoid creatures dubbed "Arachnids" or, derisively, "bugs".
Cast
- Amy Smart
- Anthony Ruivivar
- Brenda Strong
- Bruce Gray
- Casper Van Dien
- Christopher Curry
- Clancy Brown
- Dale Dye
- Dean Norris
- Denise Dowse
- Denise Richards
- Dina Meyer
- Edward Neumeier
- Eric Bruskotter
- Greg Travis
- Jake Busey
- John Cunningham
- Julianna McCarthy
- Julie Pinson
- Lenore Kasdorf
- Marshall Bell
- Michael Ironside
- Neil Patrick Harris
- Patrick Muldoon
- Robert David Hall
- Rue McClanahan
- Seth Gilliam
- Steven Ford
- Timothy Omundson
- Zoë Poledouris
More details
| author | Edward Neumeier |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Argentina |
| director | Paul Verhoeven |
| editor | Caroline Ross Mark Goldblatt |
| genre | action adventure science fiction |
| keywords | 23rd century ambush battlefield promotion buenos aires capture distress signal drill instructor drill sergeant elite unit field-promotes flog force jock kill learn mercy kill military intelligence miniature nuclear bomb mutilate nuclear bomb proboscis psychic rescue strand stratocracy stratocratic survive tactical nuclear weapon training exercise underground tunnel vote wound |
| musicBy | Basil Poledouris |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Visual Effects |
| producer | Alan Marshall Jon Davison |
| productionCompany | Touchstone Pictures TriStar Pictures |
| publisher | TriStar Pictures |
| recordedAt | Hell's Half Acre |
| theme | coming-of-age extraterrestrial life propaganda satirical science fiction action science fiction adventure science fiction war splatter teen war |