Alternate District 9 Trailer

"District 9" released a trailer last week that left many wanting more. Now the same trailer has been re-released, but this time the alien's face is not blurred out and there are subtitles for what it is saying.

It delivers more of a needed impact.

The Neill Blomkamp directed and Peter Jackson produced sci-fi feature is set in a fictional world where extraterrestrials have become refugees in South Africa. The film is set for an August 14 release and outside of knowing it expands on Blomkamp’s previous short film (watch that here) very little else is known about the film. Perhaps this new element to the trailer will help you out some.



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In a recent article from Rolling Stone, both Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp spoke about the film.

Blomkamp explains where the idea for "District 9" (and his short film "Alive in Joburg") originally came from: "I was a science-fiction nut when I was growing up in Johannesburg. I just wanted to see that kind of imagery in a third world setting with the complex political history of South Africa."

Jackson explains the backstory behind what we're seeing in the trailer, to answer at least a few questions. "These aliens arrived 20 years ago in a dead, derelict mothership, which hovers above Johannesburg. It's enormous, like the size of 10 football fields. The aliens have ended up in a Soweto-style township beneath the ship. It's clear that they're not really integrating into society. They like to scavenge things, rip up train tracks. So the authorities shift them 200 miles away, into the African belt. They've built a concentration camp." And of course, that's when things get crazy. "The resident's of Joburg want them gone.

"The film has almost a disregard for visual effects. Like, the aliens are so mundane and so part of the geography that you don't really focus on them at all," which is what makes this so unique. "Neill has built these teasing glimpses of alien culture, like gangs that spring up among them. Part of the fun is learning how the alien society has taken its lead from Earth society and from its own original thoughts. The film has this documentary rawness to it. It's original, which is good, because the film industry today only wants to remake every 70's TV show and superhero graphic novel. 'District 9' is not your typical summer film."

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Source: First Showing