OT: The Forever War Movie we've all been waiting for -- I hope

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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

That is something I worry about -- that it will be turned into just another generic sci fi action film, like they did when they raped Starship Troopers. Despite the fact that the characters in The Forever War are soldiers in a centuries-long interstellar war, remarkably little combat is actually depicted in the book. It's more a novel about PTSD, loss, and detachment from society.

_Raped_ Starship Troopers? Hell, VerHoeven tortured it to death, sodomized the corpse, then ripped its skin off and danced in it! Oh, yeah, he videoed his actions and sold it to the next of kin, too. (Can you tell that the film didn't impress me?) My wife kept telling me, "It'll be just a bug-hunt movie" but I didn't want to believe that. Damned sad lost opportunity to show an interesting side of Heinlein's writing ability and character development.

I second the hope that the action doesn't overwhelm the storyline for FW. There's plenty of opportunity for both and both are worth presenting in the film. I wonder how they're going to start it off--with Iraq/Afghan vets as the DI's instead of 'Nam vets? How are they going to integrate his parents' 60's Hippie lifestyle and the reason for his name (Mandella--misspelled from "mandala", a meditation aid)
Perspiring Mimes want to know! or is that, "Conspiring Limes want to know!"?