If 2009 wasn’t already looking like a damn good year for sci-fi (and it sure as shit is), Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 would almost certainly give it the edge it needed. While this film is the first feature with Blomkamp in the director’s seat, you may have heard his name start to pop up about four years back when he released the 6-minute sci-fi orgasm that is Alive in Joburg. Needless to say, it wasn’t too surprising when the 29 year old film-maker landed in the lap of the beautifully bearded Peter Jackson, who has been tasked with producer duties on this quickly approaching epic. Even more needless to say, the results of that artistic marriage appear to be quite bad ass.
I don’t need to waste too much energy setting up a trailer that sells itself as well as this one, but I will admit that I was mentally doing cartwheels after watching it. I never argue with a healthy bit of smoke and mirrors (that’s how I got my girlfriend, after all), and the way they set this up to be a real-world war doc before suddenly revealing the massive alien mothership is slick stuff. I seriously doubt too many unsuspecting viewers are going to see ol’ E.T coming, except, of course, for the handful of folks I just ruined it for by writing this. Sorry, you two.
Check out the trailer below, humans:
this movie is gonna be ‘da shit’. i can’t wait til it comes out, i’m foaming at the mouth right now.