Verhoeven Says Fascist Starship Troopers Fits Trump

Paul Verhoeven is out doing his thing promoting Elle at the moment.  And since they’re remaking Starship Troopers, Verhoeven got around to talking about that.  Of course, Verhoeven is the latest person from Hollywood who thinks that he has to attack the majority of the American electorate.

He tells Indiewire that the first film was lucky to have succeeded in the way that it did and how a straight adaptation of the material is more suitable in the current political climate:

“We succeeded to do this movie, that is so subversive, and politically incorrect [because] Sony changed [leadership] every three, four months. Nobody looked at the rushes because they had no time because they were fired every three, four months. So we got away with it because nobody saw it.

We really, really tried to get away from the novel, because we felt that the novel was fascistic and militaristic. You feel that going back to the novel would fit very much in a Trump Presidency. Our philosophy was really different (from Heinlein’s book). We wanted to do a double story, a really wonderful adventure story about these young boys and girls fighting, but we also wanted to show that these people are really, in their heart, without knowing it, are on their way to fascism.”

I don’t think Verhoeven understands what fascism is.  Anyhow, the other hand, David Jaffe, producer of the new movie has said; ‘One man’s fascism is another man’s patriotism’. So maybe we’ll get a more faithful take on the novel in this movie, which was less satirical.