Verhoeven may have said that. Whether it's true is another matter; he could have been trolling the book's fans. For a project that supposedly started as anothe

Verhoeven may have said that. Whether it's true is another matter; he could have been trolling the book's fans. For a project that supposedly started as another entirely unrelated movie, by a director who hadn't read the book, it managed to fit in a lot of the book's particular rhetoric and plot points.