District 9
District 9 is an upcoming science fiction film produced by genre master – Peter Jackson and directed by Neill Blomkamp, with special effects by the Academy Award-winning WETA Workshop. District 9 is based on “Alive In Joburg”, a short film directed by Neil Blomkamp, Sharlto Copley, Simon Hansen and Shanon Worley which is about aliens landing in South Africa and becoming confined to a specific area and forced to work. The title is influenced by the real-life District 6 in Cape Town. This film is set for an 13th AUG 2009 release date.
Synosips: Twenty eight years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa’s District 9 as the world’s nations argued over what to do with them. Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens’ welfare – they will receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens’ awesome weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA. The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when an MNU field operative, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), contracts a mysterious virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable – he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place left for him to hide: District 9.
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