District 10 to Start Filming

[DarylCarpenter]

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.

Oh, no, now years from now people are going to be wondering why they can't find the first eight movies in the series...

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.

If they do Apollo 1 right, the chemistry between the three lead actors could be red hot!

What, too soon?

 

[Aragorn]

District 9 Origins: District 1

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

All this talk about aliens sounds like so much prawnography to me.

 

[stj]

If the talking head speculations in the film are to be taken at face value, the aliens may be invading in the sequel. That is not a bit interesting.

The caste speculation assumes that alien castes would be real biological entities, and the bulk of the aliens really are stupid and vicious. Castes in human society are merely social constructs and there is no biologically inherent distinction between members of castes. This is actually an excellent example of some of the confusions in District 9. The other notion, that the aliens are (mostly) sick, might be read as a metaphor for racial oppressions damaging racial subcultures. Leaving it open, and leaving a special exception so conspicuously unexplained rather undercuts that. Which is also an example of District 9's confusions.

The weapons are not paperweights if someone figures out how the safeties work. How any government can be expected to assume the Nigerians might not serendipitously discover the answer is an unanswered question. Truthfully, the implication is that the Nigerians are too stupid. I don't think you want to go there. Again, this is an example of some of District 9's confusions.

And there were a hell of a lot of paperweights for such nice people as Christopher Johnson. I always had trouble believing that Christopher would be so shocked that the MNU could be experimenting on the aliens. It occurs to me that maybe he was shocked that they might be able to unlock the technology. His sudden urgency was to forestall human success in gaining superior weaponry!

 

[Shazam!]

the first Mortal Kombat movie, the Silent Hill movie and a couple of the Resident Evil movies are examples of movies that faithfully stuck to their source material while remaining financially viable and semi-watchable.

LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL and LOL

 

[Robert Maxwell]

If the talking head speculations in the film are to be taken at face value, the aliens may be invading in the sequel. That is not a bit interesting.

The caste speculation assumes that alien castes would be real biological entities, and the bulk of the aliens really are stupid and vicious. Castes in human society are merely social constructs and there is no biologically inherent distinction between members of castes. This is actually an excellent example of some of the confusions in District 9. The other notion, that the aliens are (mostly) sick, might be read as a metaphor for racial oppressions damaging racial subcultures. Leaving it open, and leaving a special exception so conspicuously unexplained rather undercuts that. Which is also an example of District 9's confusions.

The weapons are not paperweights if someone figures out how the safeties work. How any government can be expected to assume the Nigerians might not serendipitously discover the answer is an unanswered question. Truthfully, the implication is that the Nigerians are too stupid. I don't think you want to go there. Again, this is an example of some of District 9's confusions.

And there were a hell of a lot of paperweights for such nice people as Christopher Johnson. I always had trouble believing that Christopher would be so shocked that the MNU could be experimenting on the aliens. It occurs to me that maybe he was shocked that they might be able to unlock the technology. His sudden urgency was to forestall human success in gaining superior weaponry!

Given that the Prawns appeared to have something of a hive mentality, it's quite possible their castes were biological in nature. Ants do it, bees do it... even educated fleas do it. What was I saying?

I didn't find District 9 "confused" at all. Everything on the screen made sense, and the only thing that bugged me was the "DNA is magic" aspect of the fluid. I had enough of that with TNG, thank you.

But I was willing to forgive that bout of awful science since they managed to do so much with Wikus' character as a result.

 

[FordSVT]

the first Mortal Kombat movie, the Silent Hill movie and a couple of the Resident Evil movies are examples of movies that faithfully stuck to their source material while remaining financially viable and semi-watchable.

LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL and LOL

How old are you?

And no, silly, I'm not just asking because of your stupid response, I'm wondering how old you were when Mortal Kombat came out.

 

[barnaclelapse]

District 9 took me completely by surprise with how insanely awesome it was. A sequel is fine by me, especially if the same people are involved.

 

[Christopher]

The problem I see, though, is that it was Sharlto Copley's performance that anchored D9 and made it so effective on an emotional level as opposed to just being an actionfest. And obviously he couldn't return for the sequel, except as a motion-capture performer like the actor who played CJ and the other aliens. So the sequel would be missing the best part of the original, the main thing that gave audiences a reason to invest in the universe. That's a risky situation to be in.

 

[Mr Light]

^^ Christopher is going to come back and cure him, though.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

^^ Christopher is going to come back and cure him, though.

I hope that's just speculation. It would really cheapen Wikus' struggle in District 9 if CJ shows up and just cures him. If nothing else, it had better be just as arduous and painful as his original transformation.

 

[Silent_Bob]

a couple of the Resident Evil movies are examples of movies that faithfully stuck to their source material while remaining financially viable and semi-watchable.

I can only assume you have never played any of the Resident Evil games as the movies, bar Degeneration,certainly did not "faithfully" stick to their source material.

Whilst i enjoyed District 9, i'm a tad dubious about a sequel.I agree with Robert Maxwell, if Wikus is to be cured i hope its not a presto-chango quick fix as that would weaken the impact of the first movie. However i am willing to give Blomkamp the benefit of the doubt based on the strength of the original film. And Microsoft are idiots for cancelling his Halo film.

 

[Meredith]

Games just don't make for good films. It's one of those facts of life.

Red vs. Blue ....

 

[Meredith]

I want my Halo movie damnit!

www.redvsblue.com

The new series Revalations is pretty much like a cool Halo Movie.

 

[Klaus]

Oh, no, now years from now people are going to be wondering why they can't find the first eight movies in the series...

That was my first thought lol... kind of like the quest for Leonard, Parts 1-5?

 

[Christopher]

Or the previous movies in the Buckaroo Banzai series...

 

[Dac]

the first Mortal Kombat movie, the Silent Hill movie and a couple of the Resident Evil movies are examples of movies that faithfully stuck to their source material while remaining financially viable and semi-watchable.

LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL and LOL

Yeah, the Mortal Kombat and Silent Hill things are laughable, but they wouldn't have made 4 Resident Evil films if they weren't financially viable, which means they must have been Semi watchable to A LOT of people.

I'd agree with FordSVT though, Halo has a whole bunch more going for it than any of those films ever did. Firstly, none of those franchises ever spawned several New York Times bestsellers, neither did they spawn a fanbase as rabid as Halo's is.

Secondly, the cinematic trailers the games had (along with some ingame cinematics) a more filmic quality to them than half of the movies released over the past several years.

We are ODST: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dc7zGkW7g8

Believe Diorama: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXeST0NMtic

Believe Gravesite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCnKyH64icA&feature=related

If district 9 can be made out of a short film - If Mac-fucking-Gruber can be made into a feature film from a recurring one note gag on SNL, then Halo has *certainly* got the chops for a big screen film. The thing that strikes me about the whole thing though as being slightly stupid, is that everyone wants a film about the Master Chief, when the universe itself is so diverse you could set it nearly anywhere at any point during the war with a minimal budget, and you could make a mighty powerful film. Much like Halo 3: ODST was a "low budget" game, a low budget film starring Nathan Fillion and the others reprising their roles could be amazing and make a crapload of money purely because it has the Halo name in it.

Granted, theres been a whole load of video game movies made that have failed (lets not even mention that c**t Uwe Boll), but considering the Halo universe is so diverse compared to Resident Evil and Prince of Persia, yet shares the exact same Target audience of Avatar (biggest selling film ever), I am amazed why studios balked at the chance, or even why Microsoft doesn't just finance it its goddamn self. If you play the right cards and beat Avatar at its own game (which is easy in my playbook) you'll get yourself a mighty fine return on any investment in a Halo movie.


/Thread Hijack over.

 

[FordSVT]

I think too much has been made of my comments about those movies, and perhaps that's my fault for not being clear enough. I certainly don't think my examples were GREAT FILM MAKING.

They were acceptable to enough people to get sequels, I never claimed they were art. And they followed the plot closely enough, unlike some other "game" movies that have almost nothing to do with the source material. Of course I've played RE, the first 4 games anyway. The movie Resident Evil had Umbrella corp and the standard RE archetype heroine killing a bunch of people killing zombies. What else do you want? I really don't care if they didn't spend the two hour movie in a house fighting zombie dogs that pop through windows, collecting keys to open doors, it would be idiotic to make that movie.

The original Mortal Kombat movie is usually accepted as a fun if flawed adaptation of the game. Maybe it speaks volumes about the overall quality of game-movie adaptations, but most Geeks n' Nerds think of MK as probably the best game movie of them all. Not my problem if some of you didn't like it, they're opinions.

 

[clint g]

The original Mortal Kombat movie is usually accepted as a fun if flawed adaptation of the game. Maybe it speaks volumes about the overall quality of game-movie adaptations, but most Geeks n' Nerds think of MK as probably the best game movie of them all. Not my problem if some of you didn't like it, they're opinions.

Well, if anything it's certainly close to the spirit of MK.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

The first MK movie was entertaining, I'll give it that. But with such a low budget, it would've been impossible for it not to make money. The thing was strictly direct-to-video quality.