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 How did Starship Troopers get grenlit? 
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Post 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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Post 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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Prob. thought it was the next Star Wars

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Post 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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Post Re: How did Starship Troopers get grenlit?
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Prob. thought it was the next Star Wars


I agree.


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Post 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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Post 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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Post 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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Post 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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Post 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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