Director Paul Verhoeven admits to never finishing the novel, claiming he read through the first few chapters and became both bored and depressed and told screenwriter Edward neumeier to tell him the rest " it really is quite a bad book" Verhoeven told Empire magazine.
In a 2014 interview on The Adam Carolla Show, actor Michael Ironside, who read the book as a youth, said he asked Verhoeven, who grew up in Nazi-occupied Netherlands, "Why are you doing a right-wing fascist movie?" Verhoeven replied, "If I tell the world that a right-wing, fascist way of doing things doesn't work, no one will listen to me. So I'm going to make a perfect fascist world: everyone is beautiful, everything is shiny, everything has big guns and fancy ships, but it's only good for killing fucking bugs!"
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Wie ich schon sagte: Der Film ist ne Satire und ein dicker Mittelfinger Richtung des Romans.