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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
I'd love to know what Heinlein's estate was thinking when they approved the use of his name...
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Free money probably.
It got me wondering though, so I followed the usual tradition that everyone's does and read wikipedia. I found this...
"...most of the writing team reportedly were unaware of the novel at the time [pre-production]. According to the DVD commentary, Paul Verhoeven never finished reading the novel, claiming he read through the first few chapters..."
So it never really was intended to be a close adaption of the novel in the first place. With enough deviation from the original, there was little Heinlein's estate could have done with creative licensing anyway.