• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The movie was satire, but they bought the naming rights after establishing most of the movie script to avoid an copyright/IP infringement battle.

    It was extremely similar, but it’s more accurate to say it was an entirely separate work than not.

    Verhoeven meant it as a commentary on the US militarism rather than on heinlein.