Lawrence Turman helped produce this film based on a military robot who is struck by lightning and gains human like intelligence
Lawrence Turman Lawrence Turman (born November 28, 1926 in Los Angeles) is a film producer who currently serves as the director of The Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California. He was nominated for an Academy Award for "The Graduate" (1967). He has also produced such films such as "Pretty Poison" (1968), "The Great White Hope" (1970), "The Thing" (1982), "Mass Appeal" (1984), "Short Circuit" (1986), "The River Wild" (1994), and "American History X" (1998).
Juan Rico Juan "Johnny" Rico is a fictional character and the protagonist of Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 military science fiction novel "Starship Troopers". Rico is a space marine in the fictional "Mobile Infantry", an army group which is airdropped into combat by "dropships". He also appears in the 1988 "Starship Troopers" OVA series, the 1997, , and installments of the film series and the 1999 television series "".