District 10the long-awaited sequel to the acclaimed District 9 by director Neill Blomkamp, after a long phase of development it now seems almost ready for production, to announce Sharlto Copley, the lead actor of the original film, ready to sign his third collaboration with Blomkamp nine years after Elysium.
Copley talked about filming by 2024 for “District 10” in an interview with the site BroBible in which he also spoke about his recent collaboration with Idris Elba for the survival-thriller Beast which will arrive in Italian cinemas on 22 September.
Yes, man, we worked. I made a draft, sent it back to him. He made a draft. It’s just tiring to find the right story. There were some things that were happening socio-politically that [Blomkamp] he felt that perhaps from the point of view of timing he did not want to deal immediately. So maybe in a year, a year and a half [cominceremo le riprese]. She wants to have something to say.
When it was mentioned during the interview that Christopher, the alien of the Prawn species who leads the escape from Earth, had promised that he would return within three years to help the character of Copley, accidentally infected with an alien liquid, to back in human form, the South African actor responded with an emphatic “He did, brother.”
Released in 2009, Blomkamp’s “District 9” reworked some elements of the eighties sci-fi detective Alien Nationtreating as happened in the film with James Caan the alien element as an immigrant / refugee touching elements such as segregation, lack of integration and the creation of ghettos, in the case of “District 9” real slums, where they were massed and separated from the “human” society the alien refugees. The film set in 1982 in Johannesburg, South Africa and shot with a budget of only $ 30 million, it was a huge hit with $ 210 million grossed around the world.
As for what we can expect from the film, Blomkamp had previously stated in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter: “I’m still working on it” and that the film would be made “soon”. In a previous interview Blomkamp had said it was just a “question of the script”.
I think the approach of the first film is correct; it’s really just a question of the script. If there are a little more things going on in the script, then you need a little more money. But I think that if we could make it more essential and minimal we could do it. Get more agile and more creative and, personally, I like it.
Blomkamp on the story of the sequel revealed that it will be inspired by “a topic of American history”.
That script is being written. It seems good. It took a decade to figure that out, to find a reason to make the movie I wanted instead of just a sequel. There was a topic in American history that the moment I realized it fit the world of District 9, it felt like a great way to do a sequel. So yes, it continues to be developed and is getting closer and closer.
Neill Blomkamp who was born as a 3D animator working on TV series such as Stargate SG-1, Dark Angel And Aftershock – Earthquake in New York made his debut with a bang in 2009 with the acclaimed “District 9” produced by Peter Jackson and based on a short film by Blomkamp, Alive in Joburg 2006. The short in question had so impressed Jackson that originally the director wanted to entrust Blomkamp with the live-action adaptation of the video game Halothe project unfortunately did not take off and Jackson did not want to waste so much talent and so he decided to produce “District 9”, a film that Blomkamp launched and that unfortunately the director will not be able to match in his two subsequent works: the discreet “Elysium” with Matt Damon and Jodie Foster and the Mediocre Humandroid, in which “Robocop meets Pinocchio” and ends up generating a sort of Jar Jar Binks. Blomkamp has also been involved in a number of shelved projects, among them the infamous Alien 5direct sequel toAliens by James Cameron, sidelined by 20th Century Fox to make room for the underwhelming Alien: Covenant by Ridley Scott; another project this time abandoned by Blomkamp is the expected sequel Robocop Returns who would have ignored the 2014 remake. Blomkamp after directing low-budget horror Demonic (2019), he dedicated himself to the world of video games by developing the game with Gunzilla Off the Grid, in which the player is placed in the middle of a secret corporate war on a dystopian tropical island. OTG is a third person multiplayer shooter with a cyberpunk setting and a style of play described as Battle Royale 2.0 in which the player forms the story and gameplay. OTG sends the player on mind-boggling assassination and sabotage missions to the greatest glory and market share of the chosen faction. “Off The Grid” is expected in 2023 on PS5, Xbox Series X | S and PC.
Sharlto Copley in addition to starring in the survival-thriller Beast coming in September, is currently busy on the set of the action film. Desert Warrior by Rupert Wyatt about “an honest and mysterious rogue, known as Hanzala, who becomes the enemy of Emperor Kisra (Ben Kingsley) after helping a fugitive king and princess in the desert”. In addition, Copley is in the cast of two other films in post-production: Monkey Manwhere Copley stars opposite Dev Patel, who makes his directorial debut, with an action thriller about a recently released ex-criminal living in India struggling to adjust to a world of corporate greed and eroding spiritual values and Boy Kills World starring Bill Skarsgård and Famke Janssen, a film described as a “delusional, dreamlike dystopian action following Boy, a deaf-mute with a vibrant imagination who is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childhood imagination and become an instrument of death to avenge the his family killed. “