Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Starship Troopers is a 1997 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier, based on the 1959 novel by Robert A. Heinlein.Set in the 23rd century, the story follows teenager Johnny Rico and his comrades as they serve in the military of the United Citizen Federation, an Earth-based world government engaged in an interstellar war against an alien ...
Dean Joseph Norris (born April 8, 1963) [2] [3] [4] is an American actor. He is known for playing Hank Schrader on the AMC series Breaking Bad (2008–2013), James "Big Jim" Rennie on the CBS series Under the Dome (2013–2015), [ 5 ] and Clay "Uncle Daddy" Husser on the TNT series Claws (2017–2022).
Van Dien also starred in the 1997 James Dean biopic James Dean: Race with Destiny. Soon after, he got the breakthrough role of Johnny Rico in Paul Verhoeven's 1997 science fiction action film Starship Troopers. His success in Starship Troopers subsequently resulted in his casting as Tarzan in Tarzan and the Lost City (1998). [4]
Michael Ironside, who played teacher-turned-squad leader Jean Rasczak in Starship Troopers and had previously worked with Verhoeven on Total Recall, remembered being surprised that the filmmaker ...
Dina Meyer (born December 22, 1968) [1] is an American actress. [2] She began her career appearing in a recurring role on the Fox teen drama series Beverly Hills, 90210 (1993–94), before landing a leading role opposite Keanu Reeves in the 1995 film Johnny Mnemonic.
Casper Van Dien says he still has fans of Starship Troopers "yelling quotes" at him in public. The 1997 film's well-discussed and somewhat controversial shower scene took 11 hours to film, Van ...
Norris: That scene was, obviously, something that was special for us to do. And I really love it, but, in addition to that, there’s some great stuff with the end-of-the-episode kind of chitchat ...
Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein.Written in a few weeks in reaction to the US suspending nuclear tests, [5] the story was first published as a two-part serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction as Starship Soldier, and published as a book by G. P. Putnam's Sons on November 5, 1959.