The protagonists are libertarians with teenage harems, who fake an election and team up with with a sex pest. That's extremely reductive to the point of parody, but that will likely be the media coverage of it then moment someone reads the women and politics in the book.

If you completely excise anything too distasteful for a current-day blockbuster, but want a film about a space mining colony uprising you might as well just adapt the game Red Faction instead: have the brave heros blasting away with abandon at corpo guards, mad genetic experimenters and mercenaries and the media coverage can talk about how it's a genius deconstruction of Elon Musk's Martian dream or whatever.

If you haven't read Ursula Le Guin's "The Dispossessed", check it out too.

It's like a fine wine pairing for "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress."

You’d think some filmmaker would have run with the dystopian theme. The accuracy of the book’s predictions is impressive, even the location of the North American Space Defense Command. The biggest miss was people using wired telephones everywhere.

I liked it when I was 17 but have soured on it later after re-reading.

The only reason their libertarian revolution succeeds is because they have a centralised computer that secretly does everything for them.