I am asked atleast once a year by friends when District 10 should come out. Obviously by now its not happening.
Why didn't they make another one? It had potential to be great, with the prawn returning with his kind to avenge them and with the main character trying to become human again and regain the trust of his wife.
I was surprised to see this project abandoned.
I'm kind of relieved, to be honest. As is, the film is just about perfect. I imagine a sequel would only dilute its potency.
But for what it's worth, the door seems to open to a sequel. Blomkamp hasn't ruled it out yet.
Anyone here mentions Hotel California dies before the first line clears his lips.
It could still happen.
If only you could see what i've seen with your eyes.
I think the movie has made a point about racism.
There is a lot of room for a sequel, but i don't see the point in it.
The Aliens would return with an army and remove their people from district 9 (or 10). Maybe they will reverse Wikus's transformation.
Or maybe they will retaliate, but i think this movie showed that the aliens were more advanced than humans in many ways. Making the sequel a typical war movie between aliens and humans would ruin it.
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I don't so much want a sequel as I would have liked, not so much a conventional happy ending, but at least some implication that the aliens had the potential to achieve a better place in society.
shareIt's only been five years since District 9 came out. People have become so impatient with sequels in recent years with trilogies pumping out a new film every year or two years.
Alien: 1979
Aliens: 1986 - 7 years
Terminator: 1984
Terminator 2: 1991 - 7 years
Good point. I would actually be interested in a prequel, or somehow exploring more how the aliens came to arrive there, with so few of them being the more advanced, scientific types.
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Short Prequel:
A Prawn reading a brochure:
"You are about to go on a space voyage on the newly designed Large Saucer Model #23. It is more advanced, spacious and comfortable than any previous ship. It has vast freezers stocked with all the raw meat you will ever need.
The new navigation system is incredibly advanced and going off course is almost impossible, unlike earlier models. However, there is a .001% chance of a tiny operator error leading to the ship being stranded just about anywhere in the galaxy.
Please sign this release here______________ stating that we are not responsible if this happens. But it won't. But if for some reason it does, the ship is programmed to automatically go to the nearest habitable planet.
It is possible that such a planet may have an native population of sentient beings. Hopefully they will be friendly and help you repair and re-stock the ship and send you on your way. Go immediately to a large city in a pleasant climate.
However, we have no idea what kind of strange creatures exist in this universe. Perhaps they will be competitive with each other and hope to use you and the ship's technology to give themselves an advantage over other members of their species. They may even find our appearance repulsive for some ridiculous reason.
If captured by hostile aliens (especially if they are of smaller stature, lower intellect or both), it is best to act like complete morons so they don't feel threatened.
Have a nice trip."
Prawn 2: "That sounds scary, I don't want to go!"
Prawn 1: "Oh, it's fine. They just have to say that stuff for legal reasons. Some people will sue over the slightest inconvenience."
That's pretty funny. I do think though that most of the prawns were actually fairly dimwitted, getting easily suckered for dog food and so on. I like the idea suggested in the other thread that they were miners or something along those lines, meaning the one who was secretly working on technology was likely the ship's engineer, the equivalent of Scotty on Star Trek.
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I think the idea was that most of them were the workers who needed guidance from a leadership class or some other stimulus to get them to behave in an orderly manner. Maybe most of their leaders died during the crisis on the ship. Or maybe their death was the cause of the ship being stranded, though I would assume most of the ship`s systems were automated.
I wish we could see them function as they normally do. That would be good for a sequel. They might need leadership, or maybe they are intelligent collectively under the right conditions. Thinking for them might be much more of a social activity than for humans or members of the scientific class like Christopher.
To the workers, thinking and problem solving on an advanced level by yourself could be like playing a team sport by yourself. The chaos that went along with their near starvation on the ship and the unnatural conditions on earth might have disrupted their ability to organize and left them in a childlike state.
the thought of a sequel is better than closure in a film
i hope it never gets a sequel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdTmT3wVBxM someone should remake hollywood
I just read this on wikileaks dated 2014-03-07
District 9 10 11
Hope this email finds you well. I know we have talked a bit in the past about expanding on he district 9 franchise
Through out the Sony corporation and I have been pushing Neil Blomcamp and Peter Jackson and they just hadn't been ready. The guys at spt wanted to turn it into a show for the Playstation network and that didn't make sense to them at the time and I have been pressing Neil to do the sequel to d9 for a couple of years
In the last few days we have had a bit of a breakthrough because Neil has finally seen his way to developing a movie and a game at the same time that would be inter related and happen at the same time. Obviously he and peter would want creative control and I'm not sure how that would work with ps but if one were to give it to anyone they would probably be the ones. I think a television component would come after that as they are primarily interested in the movie and game first.
You were so helpful in getting the guys at ps to work with Neil on chappe.
I was wondering how you think I might go about approaching this. It could be huge for the company.
And although Neil hasn't given it to me yet he has written a treatment for the story for both the movie and game
It would be great to talk to you about it when you have a minute
Amy