How STARSHIP TROOPERS should have been filmed.
A little clip from an overlooked gem of the silver screen. The reason why I suffer from a gut-crunching and soul-destroying hatred of the film version of STARSHIP TROOPERS is that I like the book. This is what the book should have looked like had it been adapted properly to film.
Just add power armor, and you’d got it.
And yes, that is the immortal Jack Webb, in the role he was born to play.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
April 20, 2010 @ 4:15 pm
