With a budget of just $30 million, Neill Blomkamp created a sci-fi hit in 2009 that hit the box office out of nowhere. In addition to the intelligent story, District 9 scored with great effects that the director used extraordinary alien scenario realized.
Over the years there has always been talk of a sequel to the surprise hit, which airs on Nitro on Tuesday. Now Blomkamp seems to be not wanting to say a single word about it anymoreas a more recent interview with him proved.
This is the story of District 9
In the sci-fi film are Aliens on Earth landed. Here they were housed in a special camp in Johannesburg, where they have to live in poverty as outsiders. The security and military service employee Wikus van de Merwe (Sharlto Copley) is supposed to escort the aliens on a relocation and comes into contact with an extraterrestrial liquid that changes his life.
Neill Blomkamp no longer wants to talk about District 9 sequel
Following the success of the 2009 film, there have been rumors over the years about plans for a sequel, to be called District 10. Director Neill Blomkamp has apparently now ticked the topic off for himself, as a recent interview with him about his latest blockbuster Gran Turismo showed.
He was asked by Uproxx whether he tired of always being reduced to his biggest hit, District 9:
Yes, I don’t know. I don’t know. I guess I’m tired of talking about it.
The interview got pretty awkward from this point on and Blomkamp insisted that he only wanted to talk about Gran Turismo. Apparently the director wants to put his past behind him. This also includes a failed alien project von Blomkamp, which will no longer happen.
When is District 9 on TV?
Nitro shines the science fiction masterpiece on September 26, 2023 at 10:00 p.m out of. District 9 is currently not available in a streaming flat rate.
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