District 9 director is said to be about to re-team with Sharlto Copley for his next movie, Elysium…
District 9 may have been one of the most warmly received movies of last year, even earning a nomination for Best Picture at the Oscars, but Neill Blomkamp hasn't rushed into another project in the wake of his debut's success.
Now, however, Blomkamp has revealed that he's teaming up with District 9 star Sharlto Copley to create another intelligently wrought, topical sci-fi movie, called Elysium. Early reports suggest the film will be set on Earth at some point in the future, but at this early stage, there's little else to go on.
The director is still searching for Elysium's lead, we're told, so just how prominent a role Copley will have isn't yet clear, either.
Whatever Elysium is, we'll be waiting in line to watch it. District 9 was a stunning debut, and a rare example of a special effects-laden action movie with some clever, original ideas lurking beneath its surface gloss.
Our one remaining question is, just how does Elysium tie in with the weird teaser clip we saw a few weeks ago? Is the porcine corpse featured in it part of this film, another project Blomkamp hopes to tackle in the future, or a mere random Easter egg for the iPad edition of Wired?
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