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‘Starship Troopers’ Turns 20 This Year! Casper Van Dien Shares Set Photos
We’d like to remind you that this film was nominated for an Oscar.
On November 7th, 1997, Paul Verhoeven’s big budget sci-fi flick Starship Troopers was unleashed upon the world. The film, which centered on a battle between a futuristic military unit and an insectoid species known as “Arachnids,” wasn’t very well received upon release, but one could say that the true measure of a movie’s success is how well it’s remembered in hindsight. And Starship Troopers, now 20 years later, is unquestionably one of the most beloved sci-fi movies of the 1990s.
As the 20th anniversary approaches, star Casper Van Dien must be feeling nostalgic because he just uploaded a handful of behind the scenes shots to Facebook that show him hanging around on set with co-stars such as Jake Busey, Denise Richards, Neil Patrick Harris and Seth Gilliam. Van Dien of course played the role of main character John “Johnny” Rico – a role that both Mark Wahlberg and James Marsden turned down!
Head behind the scenes of Starship Troopers below.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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