Starship Troopers - Roughnecks (fake DVD cover) by duo
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Starship Troopers is a classic novel by Robert A. Heinlein, one of the greatest Sci-Fi writers of all time.
Since its debut in 1959, the novel has been one of the most popular -- and controversial -- works of science fiction ever published. It combines Heinlein's ideas of a model society, in which voting and being a citizen depends on serving in the Federation's military in some capacity, with an adventure story of a war in space.
The lead character is John Rico, a member of the military elite MI, the 'Mobile Infantry' which is a combination of Marines, airborne and special forces, and is the main strike arm of the terran Federation.
The first half of the book covers a combat jump of the MI, and then flashes back to Rico's school days as well as him training for the MI at camp Currie. The second half centers around the bug war, as the MI battle an intelligent race of hive spiders.
In 1998 Starship Troopers was adapted to the screen by director Paul Verhoeven, that faced a daunting challenge in making the book author's heavily politicized (and politically sensitive) imagery palatable to modern audiences.
In 2001 came out the beautiful CGI animated TV series
Comments (9)
know the book well, having read it in my youth..;) the movie..well, I think the choice of director was probably not the best, the story was roughly followed, but the original impetus to the movie was 'let's make a bug movie' (I'm not kidding about this)..heck, even the sequal was better. I think this more truly follows the spirit of the book..great work.
Very nicely done Duo.I'm very impressed by your wealth of information included with this image.Oddly enough I have unique ties with your story.In 1987 I worked on a kids show called "Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future".The model shop where I was working was headed up by a gentleman named Ron Thorton.My rabid interest in computers (Amigas) helped lead Ron to persue computers on his return to LA California.Mr.Thorton was the co-founder of Foundation Imaging,and has been a strong supporter of LightWave ever since.My last contact with him a couple of years ago he was finishing up on a animated version of Captain Scarlet.Funny while working with him in '87 I was rereading Starship Troopers and had suggested it'd make a great movie.While it was a great if campy movie,as you know Hollywood always has to change what was a good book.Some of the original book artwork evolved into model kits made by a company called Nitto. Best regards Duo! :B eaver !
Great job, I liked the movie alot and enjoyed the series. Haven't had the pleasure of reading the book(yet). A very nice tribute! :)
I had no idea Heinlein wrote Starship Troopers. You learn something every day. Nice dvd cover!
Beautiful Sci-Fi pic!!!Fantastic job!!!
the armour is very cool. looks great! thanks for sharing it.
Awsome rendition! Personally I think the book was fa supioror to the movie as the movie did not capture the tactics used nor the waeponry right at all. The MI used the battle suit instead of vast numbers of MI (and they never did explain how they could launch a tactical nuke and survive the radiation or blast in such close proximity, but I digress...). Love your work!
Great as ever ! Let's do it all over again in CGI !!
Ah yes...I knew it was only a matter of time. I have the book the computer games (they just came out with another one) and I have almost all the episodes on DVD and all the televised episodes on tape. I used to belong to a few groups on the web dedicated to the show. I often wonder what the guys that worked on that show are now doing. Probably working at Zoic or something. A show definately too good for morning television and I wish SciFi would have put money into financing a second season for it in prime time. I mean they have a computer animated show on now, why couldn't this be popular too.