District 9

[Gold Trumpet]

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Sharlto Copley On The District 9 Sequel
'Neil's interested in prequels as well'
Source: Empire Magazine

We spoke to Sharlto Copley exclusively recently for our A-Team feature in the new issue of Empire, and when we asked him about his upcoming plans he spilled a few small but magic beans about the planned District 9 follow-up; specifically about the determination that he and director Neil Blomkamp have to ensure that it's not a typical sequel - and the possibility that it could be a prequel.

"Neil wants it and I want it. Neil's doing another film first. Then I think if everything goes according to plan we'll do the second film in about two years time. That story can go in so many different ways. There¹s a whole universe. I'm sure a lot of writers say that, but we actually have an entire universe.

"This thing started shooting in 2005, and before we shot the film we shot Alive In Joburg and two other shorts as part of Neil's creative development process. Those next two films actually had my character, Wikus, in them, although I wasn't called Wikus in them. So they were two parts of the development of the world and where the story was going to go and all that.

"There's a million ways you can go. Neil's actually very interested in prequels as well; he's said that a few times. We wouldn't do the traditional Hollywood version of the sequel which would just be 100 aliens fighting humans."

[pete]

I liked it as much as I liked avatar.
I liked the premise of the film, but it seemed to have latched onto a few elements that have already been over-exposed in our times - the videogame-esque gore, the pseudo-documentary, "tribal" soundtrack, evil corporation...etc.  I thought the nigerian angle was much more interesting 'cause I'd never seen nigerian warlords in a sci-fi action film, but they didn't do much.  there was something I genuinely enjoyed about the art direction of avatar; how the animals and plants operated and behaved.  the bugs and the alien weaponries in this film all seemed so familiar.  it was sorta a bummer to see a fascinating premise reduced to a pastiche of familiar ideas, and I don't mind familiar ideas but even the execution was uninspired.  still, a watchable and enjoyable film, if only to see sharlto copley go from a coward to a badass.

[The Ultimate Badass]

I'm sorry, but this movie was just dumb. What's the deal, you throw in some heavy-handed metaphors and all of a sudden your aspiring FX artist's effects reel is great sci-fi?

The premise itself is absurd on multiple levels. A highly developed, technologically advanced alien race capable of interstellar travel go to Earth to live in South African ghettos and be subjugated by primitive humans? Huh?

I won't even go into the idiotic plot.

This movie's popularity and critical success is mind-boggling to me. What's going on here? Is this some kind of conspiracy or mass delusion or... something?

[Pubrick]

Is this some kind of conspiracy or mass delusion or... something?

nope.

you're just wrong, that's all.

[Pas]

The premise itself is absurd on multiple levels. A highly developed, technologically advanced alien race capable of interstellar travel go to Earth to live in South African ghettos and be subjugated by primitive humans? Huh?

Let me ask you something: are you able to build bridges, perform brain surgery and repair spaceships? Is the common human able to do most of these? Yet the Human Race is capable.

These aliens in the vessel are settlers that have become sick and weak. Maybe their scientists and medics and all that stuff died in the ship, we saw that when the human boarded the ship they were sick etc. So these are just the "common men" of their race. You might know from history class that the settlers who populated Australia were mostly prisoners and such. Not the elite of the British Empire.

Anywayyy... for lots of reasons, it's plausible.

[I Love a Magician]

to live in South African ghettos and be subjugated by primitive humans? Huh?

Racism.

[Pas]

to live in South African ghettos and be subjugated by primitive humans? Huh?

Racism.

Haha I reckon he meant the whole human species was primitive in contrast to the alien race though

[I Love a Magician]

nah he racist

[ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ]

District 9 does serve as an efficient litmus test for potential racists.