Ever since I saw Neil Blomkamp's short films Alive in Joburg, Yellow and some of his commercial work, his Citroen 4V ad being proof that a Transformers movie would be possible, I knew that there was a man who needed to make a feature film post haste. His ability to seamlessly integrate CGI in to real environments is just staggering so when Peter Jackson lured him over to take the helm of the live action version of the Halo franchise I was immediately interested. But we all know how that all went and the closest Blomkamp got to a Halo movie was to shoot promos for the third game in the series and showed us how things could have been. But Jackson believed in the kid and so they went to work on a feature version of his short Alive in Joburg under the name District 9. The film went in to production with little fanfare and stayed under the radar pretty much the whole time and now is slated to be released this summer.
From the trailer it looks like the film will follow it's short version's style and be a pseudo documentary, chronicling the arrival of an alien race in South Africa and how they are segregated from the rest of the population who don't trust them. Should they?
The thing looks amazing and I can't wait to see this and hopefully we will get a smart and exciting sci-fi that is so sorely lacking these days.
Check out the trailer after the break and take a look at the insanely dense website for the film.
^ i second that.
SUPER COOL!! looks amazing
I should also mention that this has a bit of (in conception and in style) of WILD BLUE YONDER, yet taking it out of the ambient/art-house/cult zone of Herzog's movie and clearly into the blockbuster mainstream. I like when movies do this mix (The Fountain, Sunshine, etc.)
@GeekOfEvil ... could you pass the haterade? Thanks!
My sister is ten years old and rather smart.
I'm sorry G, but I have to agree with Swarez on this one. Why is bad to be excited by a trailer, and good to be critical or negative towards it? Sure, I get that you might get disappointed if you've got too high expectations, but I'm sure most of the people on here are aware of the potential expectations has to diminish a movie.
Though I have to say that it's a little lazy to recycle the Solaris (remake) soundtrack like that. Oh well.
Now that's how you do sarcasm.
Your point, if I understand it correctly, is that favorable reaction to well made movie advertising is ruining cinema. Is that the gist of it?
But I still don't buy it.
Hey GOE, I recommend you check out the short films mentioned in the article on the YouTubes, sometimes I think I'm pretty jaded but then I see something like Blomkamp's short films, and get all giddy in seeing someone "get it right" or give me that twitching same sense of wonder as I had seeing the Harryhausen Sindbad films as a kid.
Curious, what's the last film you watched that surprised you or made your hairs stand up on the back of your neck?
I love the small narrative in this trailer - well done. You can see the potential, which is great.
I also sat there thinking, "maybe this is just a fan film masquerading as a real film, because they're using Cliff Martinez' Solaris music in it."
That was a red flag to me.
If this movie IS for real, I'd be ecstatic if they DID give the music score to Martinez, because I think his work is fantastic.
Can someone just grow a pair now and do an honest take on Childhood's End please?
I've been waiting for that and Ender's Game since my mid-teens. Figure it out, Hollywood.
@Madamecurry
It would be a toss between Angel-A, There Will Be Blood, Good Night & Good Luck, and Brick.
the mainstream market*
Whoa. Semiotics in the District 9 Trailer thread. Nice Job Ard!
Hey, I can be awesomely pretentious at times! :cheese:
(Although to be honest, I had to look up the word "semiotics"...)