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Indiana Jones IV
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How did Starship Troopers get grenlit?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_(film) 105 million R rated sci fi action satire movie no A list stars and the director coming off the massive bomb Showgirls? Very interesting. Unsurprisingly, the movie bombed
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Thegun
On autopilot for the summer
Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:14 pm Posts: 21641 Location: Walking around somewhere
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Re: How did Starship Troopers get grenlit?
Showgirls wasn't the massive bomb people make it out to be. It made well over 100 million on video sales, and did about 40WW on a 40 budget.
The book had some bidding wars over it, and the producers and director had SCi Fi and action cred being involved with Total Recall, Robocop, Cliffihanger, etc. Budget was extremely high for 1997, but Verhoven did get the biggest budget of all time for Total Recall so it's not out of the realm. A decent film elevated by the production team for sure. They probably should have reworked the film to have an adult lead and it probably would have been a 200+ WW earner. I would wager the rewrites and development costs ballooned the budget to 105 million, it definitely doesn't look like the shooting budget was ridiculous.
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Sun Apr 11, 2021 2:48 pm |
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Excel
Superfreak
Joined: Sat Aug 20, 2005 12:54 am Posts: 21890 Location: Places
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Re: How did Starship Troopers get grenlit?
Prob. thought it was the next Star Wars
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Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:34 pm |
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Steve
Indiana Jones IV
Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:09 pm Posts: 1797
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Re: How did Starship Troopers get grenlit?
This was the first R-rated movie I saw in theaters. Pretty horrifying. But such a good movie.
I didn't realize it 'bombed.'
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Jack Sparrow
KJ's Leading Idiot
Joined: Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:15 pm Posts: 36923
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Re: How did Starship Troopers get grenlit?
Excel wrote: Prob. thought it was the next Star Wars I agree.
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Sun Apr 11, 2021 8:47 pm |
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Thegun
On autopilot for the summer
Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:14 pm Posts: 21641 Location: Walking around somewhere
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Re: How did Starship Troopers get grenlit?
It also had Mortal Kombat, the Jackal, alien Resurrection, Scream 2 and Tomorrow Never Dies right around it’s release. And it’s international numbers were crap.
Probably should have came out in August so it was enough time away from Men in Black
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Flava'd vs The World
The Kramer
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:36 am Posts: 23789 Location: Classified
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Re: How did Starship Troopers get grenlit?
I love Starship Troopers. Does it still hold the record for most bullets fired in a single movie?
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Mon Apr 12, 2021 2:34 pm |
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Barrabás
llegó a la casa vía marítima
Joined: Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:53 pm Posts: 6139 Location: la gran casa de la esquina
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Re: How did Starship Troopers get grenlit?
Hollywood is basically friends giving each other shitloads of money to do cool shit. People have been failing upwards forever lol.
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Tue Apr 13, 2021 8:28 pm |
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Thegun
On autopilot for the summer
Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:14 pm Posts: 21641 Location: Walking around somewhere
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Re: How did Starship Troopers get grenlit?
Well this also a case of not remembering the video age. It definitely made money otherwise they wouldn’t have gone the multiple DTV sequels. There’s probably a good chance it did 100-200 million in video sales
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Shack
Devil's Advocate
Joined: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:30 am Posts: 38017
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Re: How did Starship Troopers get grenlit?
Despite Showgirls Verhoeven still had some solid hits to his name so he got another chance
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