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District 10 to Start Filming

^A lot of people, given that most big budget movies are going the 3D route and it's nice to know whether or not it will be shot with 3D in mind like Avatar, or converted afterwards like Clash of the Titans. There is a noticable difference in the quality of the effect.

Just because you don't like 3D doesn't mean other people don't, but you know that, don't you, Rii. :)
 
FordSVT said:
^A lot of people, given that most big budget movies are going the 3D route and it's nice to know whether or not it will be shot with 3D in mind like Avatar, or converted afterwards like Clash of the Titans. There is a noticable difference in the quality of the effect.

Just because you don't like 3D doesn't mean other people don't, but you know that, don't you, Rii. :)
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If they are going to go 3D, then they'd better shoot it in 3D. I refuse to see any movie in 3D unless it was specifically filmed with 3D in mind, like Avatar. From what I've heard, movies that are converted to 3D in post tend to look like so much shit.
 
FordSVT said:
^A lot of people, given that most big budget movies are going the 3D route and it's nice to know whether or not it will be shot with 3D in mind like Avatar, or converted afterwards like Clash of the Titans. There is a noticable difference in the quality of the effect.

Just because you don't like 3D doesn't mean other people don't, but you know that, don't you, Rii. :)
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Like 'I could care less', it's best not to interpret 'who gives a shit?' literally. ;)

In any case I don't dislike 3D, I just don't see it as a terribly big deal and am unwilling in most cases to pay the significantly higher ticket prices for the experience.
 
huh Im surprised, I thought Blomkamp wanted to do another unrelated sci-fi movie before the D-9 sequel. And Im glad its a sequel & not a prequel like he was considering in past interviews.

I hope its not 3d though, I dont think I want to see projectile vomiting in 3d. :lol:
 
I actually liked how "District 9" ended and would kinda prefer if they didn't make a sequel, but we'll see how it turns out.
 
District 9 1/2. Starring Mickey Rourke as the leader of the Prawn resistance, and Kim Basinger as the prawn that got too close.
 
The fact that it's called District 10 - if this is not merely a working title - gives me hope that Blomkamp's chatter about making it a prequel didn't go anywhere. If it was a prequel about how the prawns came to Earth, District 10 would make no sense as the new camp didn't exist yet.

I'm against a prequel precisely because that's a stereotypical choice that is usually made to play it safe - filling in the history instead of staking out uncharted territory.

It's true what Blomkamp said about a "conventional" sequel being predictable. I mean, given the ending of D9 we are forced to assume that Christopher can only return with a fully crewed rescue ship or a fleet of ships, to take the refugees back by force. It could be spun into a story that wasn't a stereotype but it would be very difficult. (And thus very rewarding if done right.)

However, the 3rd option would be to have D10 set in the 3 years until Christopher returns - about the D10 camp, Prikus (Prawny Vikus) making his way through the chaos, and so forth. Christopher's return could be the cloud hanging over everything; it might work to even have the aliens return at the end of the film, and once again leave it hanging how they'll react to humanity.
 
District 9, despite the drivel written about it, is a seriously confused movie. (Which is being generous.) Why the aliens are so stupid and vicious, why they have so many weapons, why governments will allow gangsters to pursue advanced weaponry, who exactly MNU is and what they're doing, all are problems to address.
 
On the topic of why they're so stupid and viscious, they're not all, Christopher wasn't. There was some dialog in the movie about speculation that they were a kind of hive or caste intelligence, and maybe the ruling class or hive intelligence was lost somehow in whatever disaster they had faced. Some stayed on the ship, perhaps they were the few scientific or intellectual or ruler class that remained.

But I don't think that is how the prawns would have behaved in a proper environment.
 
stj said:
District 9, despite the drivel written about it, is a seriously confused movie. (Which is being generous.) Why the aliens are so stupid and vicious, why they have so many weapons, why governments will allow gangsters to pursue advanced weaponry, who exactly MNU is and what they're doing, all are problems to address.
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The higher caste -smarter- aliens were all killed by a sickness, which caused the detour to Earth in the first place. Without direction from the higher castes, the remaining drones reverted to base behaviors - addressed in the film.

The ship had an armory. Not that surprsing. The weapons were essentially worthless paperweights until picked up by a Prawn (something not discovered until the events of the movie itself). The only Prawn around (as far as MNU knew) were the drones - too stupid to use the weapons on their own effectively and too dangerous to trust using them on the humans' behalf - partly addressed in the film and infered from events.

The gangsters were pursuing paperweights. The Prawn hid some of the weaponry to trade with the human gangsters and the gangsters collected the useless bits of tech. Until the secrets of operating the tech were unlocked, fighting a gang war with the Nigerians over bits of tech the MNU already had access to sounds like a waste of money and manpower. Standing policy was to avoid the problem. -easily infered from events and dialogue.

MNU was the megacorp that formed and outbid all others in the 80s to investigate and develop the alien tech. An international operation granted East India Company-type powers to do just that. Set at the height of the Cold War, it could be argued that having a multinational private sector entity oversee the aliens would be better than NATO and the Warsaw Pact fighting over who was going to get exclusivity. -partly addressed in the film and infered from events.
 
Sweet...loved "District 9" and "Alive in Joburg" (which is pretty much the prequel to District 9 and Neil stated in the audio commentary that he would consider doing a prequel that expanded on Alive in Joburg) and am also very curious to see where a sequel would go.
 
What I want to know about a sequel is what the story focus will be. Will it be about the main character from District 9? Will the Prawns come back to turn him back into a human? Or will it be a different story having nothing to do with that particular plot?
 
Honestly, District 9 is the textbook example of a self-contained story. Sure, it had an open ending, but it was open ended to make you think, not to make another movie. I really can't see them heading in any direction that has any of the subtlety of the first. I loved the movie, but this isn't good news in my opinion.
 
777 said:
District 10, the sequel to District 9, will start filming in October. :techman:

http://marketsaw.blogspot.com/2010/04/exclusive-weta-update-mortal-engines-in.html

DISTRICT 10 is now in pre-production with filming to start in the October time frame this year. Shooting locations will be South Africa once again as well as New Zealand. There has been no word on whether it will be shot in S3D or not as of yet. You will be the first to know! Peter Jackson is again producing the sequel with Neill Blomkamp directing.
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More fooking Prawns. I like it! :techman:
 
Great news. Count me curious as to where they go with this. The ending was left with several paths they could go in with a sequel.

Christopher said:
Oh, no, now years from now people are going to be wondering why they can't find the first eight movies in the series... ;)
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I know riiight. I'm still trying to track down the first 12 Apollo movies, after part 13 with Tom Hanks I guess a reboot is in order. ;)
 
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