Oh, Right, About 'District 9'
Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers, Mystery & Suspense, Sony, Peter Jackson, Movie Marketing
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Somewhere in between last week's heated banter about X-Men Origins: Wolverine and its amnesia bullets, the teaser for August's District 9 (not to be confused with September's 9 or November's Nine) slipped through our nets.
This Peter Jackson-produced piece of speculative sci-fi -- what if aliens landed in South Africa and were cooped up there for a bit too long? -- builds upon director Neill Blomkamp's 2005 short, Alive in Joburg, and seems to revel in a similar mix of high-concept dilemma, low-key effects, and no-name actors.
The Apple page proves to be quite the one-stop shop for the film's viral marketing campaign to date. There's propaganda both for and against the film's central corporate entity, Multi-National United -- they're either harnassing alien technologies in order to produce better energy sources or using that as a cover to develop weaponry (and what kind of movie would we get if the former were true, hmmm?). Hey, there's even some viral marketing for the kids!
So all things considered, are you guys intrigued for District 9? Psyched? Pumped? Utterly uninterested?
Update: Trailer Addict has a version of the trailer that reveals the alien's face (see image above) and translates its pleas. We've embedded it after the jump...
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
5-06-2009 @ 5:17PM
Scott K. said...
I wasn't interested before, but now you can defintiely count me among the intrigued.
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5-06-2009 @ 5:20PM
Billy Bob said...
it looks interesting, but I'm not sure it will really play to the summer audience. seem's more like a november film.
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5-06-2009 @ 5:23PM
andrew said...
when i first read about it, i wasn't intrigued. after the seeing the trailer in theaters, i am officially excited for this. looks like a great piece of sci-fi storytelling. very interested in finding out what's going on with these aliens.
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5-06-2009 @ 6:15PM
Master X said...
I hope this does great.
Peter Jackson wanted Neill Blomkamp to shot the Halo movie (one of the biggest video games ever, sold over 3 million copies in 24 hours) but Microsoft said No so if this does good, I think we will get a Halo movie.
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5-09-2009 @ 6:58PM
Batzarro said...
Actually, it was Fox and and Paramount who disagreed with Microsoft's terms. Whether or not that's Microsoft faults, I couldn't really say, and the end result is still no Halo movie, and this glimpse of what might have been.
5-06-2009 @ 6:48PM
Oblique said...
Im Very excited for this movie, it caught me by surprise last friday when I checked out Wolverine, because normally cinematical has me up to date on all the latest trailers (you guys are slipping lol).
I think its cool because it kind of has that cloverfield vibe to it, and it has a big viral market on the web already. So I cant wait for it to release. I've seen some of Neill Blomkamp's smaller works and this can blow him up if its good.
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5-07-2009 @ 4:00PM
Bill G said...
I was lost as to what this movie was really about by the trailer. I figured out it wasnt some monster movie, but something much much more. I watched the short film and it is fantastic. I really look forward to him bringing the whole thing to feature length. I wonder if it will actually conclude as well.
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