He’s also acted for webshows like the Machinima hit Mortal Kombat Legacy where he played Johnny Cage, and the Agents of SHIELD parody Interns of FIELD, where he played Hawk Guy. He was the 20th Tarzan and the only one to ever film in Africa and ride an African elephant in the Warner Bros. While Van Dien’s breakthrough role was that of Rico in Starship Troopers, he also has an acting resume that spans a whole lot of other fandoms. He was also in Tim Burton’s critically acclaimed film Sleepy Hollow as Brom Bones. CASPER VAN DIEN, who played the Rico in the 1997 film, will be at the event to sign autographs and interact with his Filipino fans. Johnny Rico himself is calling upon his true-blue Filipino Roughnecks to gather and be by his side at NexCon 3. Heinlein was originally set in the Philippines, and Johnny Rico, along with most of his Roughnecks, are born and raised in the Pearl of the Orient.
Even more hardcore fans would know that the original Starship Troopers novel by Robert A. Johnny Rico led his Roughnecks in the fight against the vast bug armies. Fans of the cult-classic Starship Troopers are very familiar with its post-apocalyptic alien-infested world wherein Col.
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