A few weeks back we introduced you to District 9, a Peter Jackson produced tale based on the Neill “In your face!” Blomkamp short Alive in Joburg. The trailer for District 9 has just been released and I’ll belie my partisanship here and say it looks fantastic. While there’s going to be some comparisons made with 1988’s Alien Nation, I get the feeling District 9 is going to be a little less crime mystery with aliens and more sociopolitical with a little sinister thrown in for good measure.
To bone up on District 9, click here. Or, if your memory puts steel traps to shame, just watch the trailer.
7 comments On District 9 Trailer
I won’t lie. This trailer not only looks fantastic (I wonder about the acting, though – that lady being interview sounds wooden), but it makes me shake my fist at whomever is preventing Halo from being made.
Sorry to disagree with you Andy but this looks like it belongs on the sci-fi channel. Looks sorta low budget..meh.
I don’t think low budget is accurate, but I do think he’s going for a “raw” feel. I’ll reserve my opinions until after I see it, but from what I saw of his Halo pre-production, Universal and 20th Century Fox are really missing the money train by passing on Halo, especially with Peter Jackson’s name attached.
Is Weta doing the effects?
Weta did the effects. I don’t know any more than what I’ve seen, but Alive in Joburg had a great feel and tone– this is it big-screeninized. Nazi Frankenstein and Pterodactyl Nightmare belong on Sci-Fi. District 9 belongs on the big screen and then, hopefully, on my Blu Ray shelf.
Still, I can see where folks are coming from with the “cheap feel”. Blomkamp’s (the directors” style is all raw and uncut stuff. We’ll see, but so far so good.
Do you hear that, Jar Jar? That’s the sound of a thousand terrible fronk horns fronking the window shut on the Halo movie. Best move quick, Neil and Peter! Times a wastin’!
Halo with Peter and Neill is done and done. Next up, if ever: Halo courtesy of Brett Ratner and Casper Van Dien. Or maybe Kirk Cameron.
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