[Alchymist]

Peter Jackson Presents District 9

District 9 is based on Alive in Joburg, a short film directed by Neill Blomkamp, Sharlto Copley, Simon Hansen and Shanon Worley. Copley also portrayed one of the interviewed policemen. The short film is about aliens landing in South Africa and becoming confined to a specific area and forced to work. In the movie these aliens are called "Non-Humans" and are overseen by Multi-National United (MNU), a company which is utilizing alien technology. When Dirk Michaels (Richard Ighedosa), a soldier working for MNU, mutates into a half human and half "Non-Human" after opening a strange tube he finds in District 9, he becomes a wanted man on both sides.

Thirty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africas District 9 as the worlds nations argued over what to do with them. Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United, a private company uninterested in the aliens welfare they will receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens awesome weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA. The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when an MNU field operative, Wikus van der Merwe, contracts a mysterious virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place left for him to hide: District 9.

So guys, I just watched several trailers about this film and just wanted to hear what other people have to say about it. Kinda feels a bit of how I felt when I wanted to watch Cloverfield... Looked awesome from the trailer but am I going to be disappointed by the film... ?



'District 9' Trailer 1

'District 9' Trailer 2

This post has been edited by Alchymist: 31 July 2009 - 01:31 PM

[Moloch]

I don't know either way, honestly. I do think, though, that that silhouette there looks a lot like H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulu. So it MIGHT be interesting.

[Waycos]

I expect it to be a comedy, certainly getting that impression from the commercials.

[Alchymist]

I'm going to hold my judgement for when I actually see it... It most likely will be another Doomsday or Cloverfield but meh... Pessimisms gets boring after a while...