In other words, if you look at it as 'based on' ST rather than an actual adaptation, then it's not awful. It's impossible to reliably predict the direction a billion people will trend things) Red Planet represents a departure from these earlier tales, and in many ways, is a template for many Heinlein stories that will follow, both in juveniles, and books written for older audiences. One reason why government-directed technology never works, and central-planning schemes always go awry. To Jim Marlowe, he was simply a friend and wherever Jim and his pal Frank went, Willis went too. Heinlein 7.20 5 Willis was a bouncer, a Martian roundhead who looked for all the world like a hairy medecine ball and who could - and often did - function as a complex recorder of what went on around him. It's not a particularly close adaptation (Verhoeven really did NOT understand the culture RAH was writing about, as shown by the obviously Nazi-esque uniforms for the Intel Officers) but it's not an awful movie itself, and the book is remarkably didactic and Verhoeven did a fairly good job of getting a lot of that subtle material into the movie with the 'internet 'Want to know more?'' elements - which at the time was perceived as the future of the internet (i.e., 'push' content vs 'pull' content - As usual, the commercial interests Got It Wrong. Red Planet Heinlein Juveniles by Robert A. I do disagree with the complaints about Starship Troopers. I'd also note the similarity between Star Trek's Operation: Annihilate! with RAH's 'The Puppet Masters'.

and signed off on the usage as acceptable to him.

RAH was contacted before its production by Paramount's legal dept. David Gerrold was purportedly unaware of any connection until long after the fact, but even he acked that the resemblance between Tribbles and RAH's 'Flatcats' from The Rolling Stones is awfully close. You could nominally add 'The Trouble With Tribbles' as being inspired by it. To the best of my knowledge (And I've been an SF and film buff for decades) the listings above are all the Heinlein stuff which as been adapted.

Robert a heinlein red planet