Starship Troopers (film)/Trivia

• Box Office Bomb: Sadly didn't fare very well in the patriotic United States. Budget, $105 million. Box office, $54,814,377 (domestic), $121,214,377 (worldwide).
• Creator Killer: This was the final American film Verhoeven supevised; he never really fully recovered from Showgirls and moved back to Europe after this movie.
• Dawson Casting: Casper Van Diem, Patrick Muldoon and Dina Meyer were twenty-nine playing a high school graduates, Denise Richards was 26, and the other "high schoolers" weren't much younger.
• Prop Recycling:
  • Power Rangers, Firefly -- the armor from this movie has shown up everywhere. After getting passed around Hollywood for years several of the suits were eventually sold for use in the third movie, making this a weird circular trope.
  • The USM Auriga appears to have been made from a modified model of the Rodger Young, or one of its sister ships.
• Recycled Script: This film was originally to be an Aliens ripoff called "Bug Hunt", then Verhoeven got the rights to the Heinlein story. Many wept that day.
• You Look Familiar: Brenda Strong, who played Captain Deladier in the first film, comes back in the second film as Sergeant Rake.