There hasn’t been any new news since around May. But that hasn’t stopped Imdb from churning out “articles” that are merely copy-and-pastes from many months old info like the article I posted.

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    The only action outside training I recall is the opening chapter where they are bounding over a technologically inferior civilization and absolutely leveling everything with flame throwers and tactical nukes, I don’t know how a film audience will see this as anything other than Iraq/Afghanistan but cool that it’s happening, or IDF bombing Gaza but presented as a good thing. And then at the end when they get to fight the bugs, which deviously send out their workers/ women & kid bugs as human shields - so if you are making a faithful adaptation you either have to show that as a good thing the humans kill them or directly say the humans are bad.

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      the opening chapter where they are bounding over a technologically inferior civilization and absolutely leveling everything with flame throwers and tactical nukes

      I remember it devoting as much time to like an explanation of how making the nukes have a time delay and a speaker system that counts down in the native language was a genius strategic idea that made them way more effective as terror weapons since it meant their victims had time to be scared and knew what was about to happen, as it did to the actual action happening.

      So much of the work is just Heinlein opining about the most galaxy brain shit, like the kind of stuff you’d expect from a kid raised on fashy anime except coming from an adult nerd in the 1950s.

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        I remember that now that you mention it and thanks, I hate it. Notes of Israeli “roof knocking” wafting up from the cesspits of fascist fantasy.