'Disctrict 9' The Movie
“District 9″ (out Friday), a $30 million sci-fi thriller based on Blomkamp’s 2005 short film “Alive in Joburg,” and the movie Entertainment Weekly dubs the must-see movie of the summer on this week’s cover.
Shot docu-style with a cast of South African unknowns, the film follows extraterrestrials who land in Johannesburg in the 1980s. “They have technology and weapons that are extremely appealing to various forces,” Jackson says. But when the aliens get involved in petty crime, the South African government confines them to an isolated township. “And that’s where it all goes wrong,” Jackson says.
The story has noticeable parallels to apartheid, but Johannesburg native Blomkamp swears the flick’s not preachy. “I’m not trying to beat people over the head,” he says. Nor is “District 9″ a replica of “Cloverfield,” another recent docu-style sci-fi thriller. “It’s not somebody running around with a camera, filming everything,” Jackson says. “We have a mixture of documentary and dramatized scenes.” Sounds like a refreshingly alien concept.
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