The series is called Roughnecks, I think. It’s actually much closer to the book than Verhoeven’s cinematic abortion was, but still not solid. The graphics for the movie, and the fact that it’s evidently a Part IV makes me think that it’s not really related to the series.
They could do it by adapting John Steakley’s Armor. Hopefully that would work better than his Vampire$, with or without John Carpenter’s “assistance”. Heck, maybe they could even do The Forever War.
Can we still have the Nazi uniforms and coed showers?
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=32603
Is this the same project already being discussed in the thread or something else?
Exactly. Heinlein’s book was not primarily about combat. The war was just a frame for him to use to write about how the society he created functioned in wartime. And Verhoeven threw out all the stuff about that society - which was the primary point of the book.
It would be like somebody making a movie version of To Kill a Mockingbird and changing it so the story was set in Sweden and everyone in the cast was white. That way the audience could focus on the trial without getting distracted by any racial issues.
It’s just a pity Verhoeven didn’t admit he’d done that – then he could have slapped a videogamey title on it and avoided poisoning the well for a genuine adaptation of the novel. (Though it would be appropriate to admit that he’d gotten a few ideas from the dust jacket of the book and fork over a check to the estate.)
Not really, no. All he got from the book was the revolutionary idea of soldiers fighting in space. Which clearly, nobody but Heinlein had ever done before.
I have to say it disappoints me that someone who can’t write a decent sales pitch is now producing a film; I understand that the skills involved in producing and writing a film are very different, but still. I can’t imagine it being any good. I mean, “we functionally asked ourselves”? What? Did they mean fundamentally? “The former movies did not fully decrypt the power suits from the original novel by Robert A Heinlein” - decrypt? And not, for example, depict? Cheap shots, yes. But they make me feel happy. And that’s what matters.
The scriptwriter has a Wikipedia entry, which reads like a badly-padded CV. There’s a tendency for the little people on the absolute periphery of Hollywood to have over-inflated puff-pieces on the IMDB, which makes them look even worse than if they just had a few lines. 'cause if you’d written the between-mission text for the last two entries in the Desert Strike series, you wouldn’t make it a large part of your shopfront. The pitch could be rewritten as:
Boy, I’d kill to see someone do a GOOD movie of Armor…