Nope
Starship Stormtroopers had roughly as much to do with the book as Gomer Pyle USMC has to do with Unc Sugar’s Misguided Children. Verhoeven had a property named ‘Bug Hunt’, heard that the rights to Starship Troopers were available, did a small fix-up of the script, and charged. Hint: Johnny Rico, in the book, was a Filipino, not an Argentine. His mother was visiting Argentina and got nuked by the Bugs. Johnny Rico did not play Yankee Feetball in high school. Dizzy Dean was a guy, not a girl; there were zero girls in the MI, but lots of them in the Navy, girls made better pilots than guys. Carmen got to be an instant officer, Johnny was a grunt. The book had powered armour as a major plot point; the movie, well... In the book, the MI dropped in using their powered armour and individual drop capsules, there being a reason why the MI were capped ‘cap troopers’. In the movie... you gotta be kidding. In the book there were boss bugs, who ruled, soldier bugs, who fought, and worker bugs, who built stuff... and that’s it. No other types of bugs. And the soldier bugs fought with guns and missiles and spacecraft, most definitely not with, to quote one review of the movie, hyper velocity anti-spacecraft bug shit. I can go into considerably greater detail, but I’ll just say that Verhoeven didn’t even read the book until after making the movie.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
