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Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004) (V) More at IMDbPro »

• Clancy Brown was asked to reprise his role of Sgt. Zim from the first movie, but he was unavailable due to his commitment to "Carnivàle" (2003). The part of Zim was then re-written as a new character, Capt. Dax, played by Richard Burgi.
  
  
• When Clancy Brown was unavailable for the film, the character of Zim was changed to Pike, named for Pike Bishop in The Wild Bunch (1969). But Pike sounded too similar to the character of Peck, so the name was changed to Dax.
  
  
• The character of Captain Dax is named for Col. Dax in Paths of Glory (1957), played by Kirk Douglas. Both men are officers who become disenfranchised and feel betrayed by their own military.
  
  
• The character of Kobe was originally written as an Indian named Haji. Sony, the studio behind the film, requested an East Asian character for the eastern markets, so Haji became Kobe.
  
  
• The storm clouds are actually toilet paper tubes with cotton stuck to them, slowly rolled forward. They were darkened and layered digitally.
  
  
• Richard Burgi took the large banner featured in the end sequence.
  
  
• The statue of Dax was six inches tall.
  
  
• Shot in just 26 days.
  
  
• Made for 5% of the cost of Starship Troopers (1997).
  
  
• With the exception of stock footage used for the Fed-Net opening, no visual effects shots were recycled from the previous film; they were all newly created by Tippett Studio.
  
  
• Portions of Pvt. Sahara's dream sequence were filmed with the then new Apple iSight firewire video camera.
  
  
• The actress Brenda Strong who plays Sergeant Rake also played Captain Deladier in the original Starship Troopers (1997).
  
  

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