After Neill Blomkamp’s brilliant, no-budget District 9 made waves in 2009 (pivotally following a disappointing summer of vapid blockbusters), a sequel must be on everybody’s lips.
But Blomkamp appears to be leaning🅰 more in the direction of a prequel to his apartheid analogous alien flick.
, he said:“A sequel might be interesting. I know what I'm doing next so it wouldn't be right a𒈔way. But the concept of aliens in Johannesburg is such an appealing idea to me and the is🎶sues of race and how they meet.
"All of the things that I had going on with it. 🎶ꦫI wouldn't mind messing around with it again.
"I'm open to it if the story wor🎶ks and the♍re's a reason to do it. And [Copley's character] Wikus is so funny to me, I'm very interested in a sort of passive racist like that.
"If you go forward [with his story beyond District 9 ] it's more of a traditional film, but if you go back🦹ward I'd be intrigued in that. I'm not so interested in aliens coming back and blowing things up but [a prequel] might be interesting.”
Prequel, huh? It’s a fittingly left field suggestion from the director. And we do love Wikus. But what sort of revelations can be plumbed from going back to before the events of District 9 ?
Whatever Blomkamp comes up with, we trust he’ll do us right. Meanwhile, ✃he’s writing his next 📖as-yet-unnamed project, a sci-fi film set 150 years in the future.
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