For me, Starship Troopers is all the proof you need in order to name Robert Heinlein science fiction's greatest writer. I am getting in the bad habit of naming. Directed by Paul Verhoeven. With Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Jake Busey. Humans in a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs. Release Date: November 7th, 1997. R | 2 hr. 9 min. Follow the movie on Facebook. Plot Summary In the distant future, the Earth is at war with a race of giant. Starship Troopers is a 1997 American satirical military science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier, originally. Starship Troopers Wiki is a freely editable database for Starship Trooper movie, game and book information, the Roughnecks Chronicles, and more. Starship Troopers has 133,792 ratings and 3,676 reviews. Manny said: My first impulse is to dismiss it as an appalling piece of militaristic propaganda. Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published hardcover in December 1959. The story was first published (in. Amazon.com: Starship Troopers: Jake Busey, Michael Ironside, Denise Richards, Clancy Brown, Neil Patrick Harris, Dina Meyer, Casper Van Dien, Paul Verhoeven, Jon. Plot Edit. Starship Troopers tells the story of an interplanetary war between Earth and colonies of large insect-like aliens in the twenty-third century. Starship Troopers is one of those films that blends elements of Science Fiction, horror and comedy. The film is directed by Paul Verhoeven, director of Robocop.