Production Companies

TriStar Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Jon Davison Productions, Big Bug Pictures

Overview

"A new kind of enemy. A new kind of war."

Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs."