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That said, I couldn't disagree more with your suggestions Josh, as each one seems tainted by sensibilities found within the last 20 years of the Sci-Fi genre.
When asked if Christopher Johnson would return if a sequel was made, Neill replied that he has some completely different ideas that have nothing to do with that. I hope that it's here that he holds his ground against Hollywood and the inevitable clamor of fan expectations.
To be fair, instead of simply disagreeing, I'll also put forth an idea for a sequel to District 9.
It's not 3 years later. Nor is it 30. It's at least 100 years since Christopher left in the alien spacecraft and never returned. The only one to know, first hand, that he had intended to return has been long dead, Wikus. However, the day that he and his son left the planet, the course of Earth's history was altered forever.
Wikus waited, and changed. He traveled among the Prawns and told stories of Christopher Johnson, of why he left, and of his return to free them from captivity. Two new groups form within their society, those who feel a religious affinity towards these stories and those who believe that, to be ready for the return, they should be militarily prepared for an uprising.
Human society has also been greatly affected. Finally in the public eye, the knowledge of the atrocities committed against the Prawns brings a greater Humanitarian spirit to a widespread portion of the human population. Governments of the world support this movement and the general living condition of the Prawns improves. Privately, however, these governments have also taken the first of many steps, the agreement that a worldwide coordinated defense must be enacted and that research into alien/human hybrids and technology must be the highest, but most secret, priority.
100, 200, or 300 years later, generations of humans and aliens have lived and died, knowing that at any moment there could be a glint in the sky above, either hopeful, or full of dread, and now, the next shift in the course of Earth's history is about to happen.
Like in this example, I'd much rather see the cultural ramifications of the events in District 9 become the backdrop of District 10 (or whatever) than have Christopher on his home world (Arbitor of Halo 2), Christopher return for war (Independence Day), or Christopher peacefully returns but humanity attacks (The Day the Earth Stood Still).
OOOk I think I said enough :P
-Ramen
Just a thought tho. It may water down the whole stroy. But again, your ideas are killer
I was thinking, in all reality, can humans really live on the planet with another intelligent species? Thats what I was thinking the whole time watching District 9. I don't think so, we can barely live with people with different ideologies and struggle for power. Thus why we start so many wars and hatred in the world. THe prawn race growing would eventually lead to humans getting into battles with them. The life styles are not the same, they are different. It would be hard for the two to get a long I think which would lead to the some big war between the two races. I think the first movie did a good job looking at the aspects of two different cultures living together for 30 years and how they were treated. Extending on that would make a boring movie.
Not saying I want action, but rather resolve. CHris needs to come back with his alein friends. He is such a good character in the movie and seems to be the onliny one with an understanding about what happened to the prawns, their time on earth and returning. Maybe multiple ships come back, sprays all that goo on humans and the prawns curing prawns and transforming people into prawns and thats that. Domination. No need for explosions and battles. Obviously they are advanced race wiht the ability for globabl domination.
You said that the Prawns were ravaging amoral monsters for the most part. I agree that the general D-9 population was that way, but you need to take 2 things into consideration:
1. Think about it, starving, lost, forced in poverty and oppressed for 20 years; how do you THINK that you would behave? It reflects back to the real world comparison to social patterns and cultures. Why do people do what they do? Why do people act in a primative manner and disregard what we consider to be civilized. I bet if they were humans on an alien planet, they would act just the same... worse actually, we would end up killing each other to total extinction.
2. Logically, it is impossible for a civilization with a culture that is represented by the D-9 inhabitants' behavior to progress to the stage that they had. In order to have industrialism to such a degree where technology such as bio-mechanics and interstellar travel is possible, the civilization has to be very mature and understanding. This is seen in todays world. Nations that are at a development level to create weapons are mature enough that they can keep a stable society. When these weapons are sold to nations that are not stable enough to support such industry, the people end up slaughtering each other. It's a maturity thing, and the Prawns logically cannot have come from an animalistic society. However, like any culture, everything goes out the window when hope is lost.
Seriously, the Prawns were the protagonists in the story, having them come back trying to destroy earth and humanity would kinda make them switch roles.
What would likely happen is the Prawn government and the MNU would be at war, while many humans and Prawns want the war to stop and for peace to be created. This could be made to reflect the reasons and ideology behind warmongering, manifest destiny, and revenge. Then have it conflict with ideology of forgiveness, understanding, and peace.
I personally liked how they did the filming style as half documentary half movie.
I felt like I was watching a documentary, then it slowly morphed into a normal film. I don;t think they could do that in a sequel though
also another other thing, you mention that you said the prawns (beside Chris and his son) seemed like bests but remember in the beginning they said it seems like all signs of intelligence and leadership were erased by disease. and then you think why was Chris smart then? its because he was separated from the main population, he came down with the pod that fell from the ship in the beginning. i believe Chris was the "captain" of the mother ship. he knew how the technology worked and he knew they had the tech. on the ship to heal Wikus and the only way he would have known that was if he was on the ship and didn't get infected.
im not the writer tho im just a fan of the movie i could be wrong and you could be right
think about it -he had alien and human dna in him so they possibly would've have some machine that wasnt purposefully made for human dna but just changing dna in its whole so if u think about it... u know
and the way christopher said he would return to fiix him was really trustfully -i mean wikkus almost gave his life for the prawns so i dont think chris would still claim to be able to change him if it wasnt like that
THOUGH ofcourse i dont know shit -its just a thought yours could ofcourse be right too :D
But really, they created that stuff to get back to the mothership. There wasn't a lot of it, so it took years for him to gather and back that much. It seemed that the machinery and weapons were all DNA controlled. So perhaps thats what Christopeher needed to make that, maybe his DNA wasn't pure enough to opperate the ship. But then again he used the weapons later on didn't he?
One thing is certain, he said he'll be back with a cure. So they'll be back, what happens is beyond me to decide. I agree that the film taking the form of a documentry would be a bit hard. It was a good start but for the sequel the audience really needs to know more about the background of the aliens, but at the same time still needs to hold the suspense of not knowing why. I'm looking forward it coming out.
End of long dumb tangental rant.
The biggest thing I would like to see in the sequel is what Cody said “a little back story”
Where did they come from… and why earth...
One thing I can say for sure is the way the movie ended you can tell there will be a sequel.
The documentary film style was diffrent and I didn't really notice when it switched half way through I was too into the movie to care I still give the movie a 5/5
but the biggest thing i would have to say to the director & writers is TAKE YOUR TIME!!! dont rush it when you get in a rush bad things happen.. if you are worried about budget hell i'll help fund the thing
Ok, so it takes three years for Chris and his son to return with support, but wait a second, these are not prawns, but familiar bipedal beings - they look like regular men!
Chris is actually the commander of the reunion ship and crew - i.e. the mothership. The mothership was on its way to earth to reunite with their long time seperated brethren on earth.
But along the way, misfortune strikes in the form of a massive ship wide fuel leak. This leak then wreaked havoc on the ship and crew, causing catastrophic effects in just how long? Well, it seems to me from the existing documentary, that it was approximately 90+ hours before the entire crew was converted to Prawns.
So now you know why Chris returns in 3 years - because he is being transformed back into his original form.
And he will definitely fulfill his promise to wicku, and provide the citizens of the earth first hand experience in what it is like to be discriminated against. I wonder what would happen if someone seeded the clouds with a little bit of the "Fuel"?
Rodney
There is a reason for the mothership having a catastrophic fuel leak, and the reason is sabotage. Yes, it appears that back on the prawns homeworld there are many people who do not want to make contact with any other species even if the species in question looks just like they do. Yep, that's right - the whole things starts because of discimination by some of the prawns towards earthlings.
I watched the District 9 online but I was so impressed with it I'm going to go see it on the big screen. It's been a long time since a decent movie has come out for a while especially with all these predictable stories. While I do think documentary style of the movie should defenitely be taken away, I don't think he should go along with the normal movie style either.
Halo is a weak FPS with a original yet weak story, and its lack of enemies makes it even worse.
Half-Life is smart, original, and interesting. Its not just a run and gun game. It would be so much more intense to see Half-Life on screen.
The Iliad, by Homer
The Odyssey, by Homer
The Aeneid, by Virgil
The Inferno, by Dante
this movie was amazing, no liberal garbage thank God.
Likewise, it would be interesting to see a more far-reaching view of an earth opposed to the aliens. To show perhaps the religious, social, scientific, ect ramifications of the aliens showing up on earth.
Perhaps District 10 will not be limited just to the aliens vs. humans, but also human vs. human vs. alien vs. human, ect. It'd be interesting to see the director's views on how human society might interact now that aliens essentially provide an alternative "enemy". Would there be wars fought between the human race anymore? Or would all eyes be locked on District 10?
Why are we so damn Americo-centric while watching a FOREIGN sci-fi film?
Natural selection: being more fit, or suited to environment causing greater success in birth rates and life span and/or decrease in death rate.
SO no "being better then another" is not a decent description of ONE of many many factors influencing evolution. Learn some fucking biology dipshit.
Not trying to knock you above me, though, because I agree with the gist of your post. As soon as people realize how inane the "us vs them" mentality of liberal vs conservative, christian vs non-christian, etc. is, the sooner we can actually start making some progress.
There are no teams you root for regardless of what they do, this isn't baseball.
The sheeple above me have been brainwashed to hate anyone speaking their mind at a townhall - that applies nicely to this movie, and probably subscribe to the whitehouse twitter.
And for anyone who thinks this movie was not intended for an American market, or that we are "lucky" to pay $10/ticket to see it - grow a brain.
Did you see the movie? The bad guy is an evil, out of control, all powerful corporation. It's not about what I "think". That's just what was on film. The director has talked about that in interviews. That was definitely one of the things he was exploring. Corporations, just like people, governments, or any other entity, can be evil. That's not a political issue, it's just reality.
The other things you're listing seem to have mostly popped out of your politically motivated imagination. Burning alien eggs is three seconds in the film but you're quick to paint it as anti-abortion. Meanwhile you missed the 50% of the film that's about an evil corporation torturing innocents. Seriously, that takes a special kind of blinders don't you think?
Might I suggest you embrace your own advice and leave politics out of it and instead embrace the movie for what it is? Liberal or conservative, I think we can all agree that racism is a bad thing and corporations murdering and dissecting intelligent creatures is also a bad thing. That's not not some crazed "liberal" stance. These are fairly universal themes.
RAL
The movie, although focused on the abusive practices of humanity as a whole while singling on one corporation, did in fact incorporate a number of concepts as sort of jabs at the mind. I noticed the whole 5 minute anti-abortion jab...Wikus even used the phrase in dialogue with his friend/co-worker. I think he said something along the line, "...chalk this up as your first abortion..." or something like that. So while I don't see why John McCain decided to act as a troll and start a political debate...I can't call his perceptions unfounded as you and the others are trying to do.
I saw themes of prejudice, anti-humane, anti-social, oppression, cover ups...I mean heck the whole story was a thought provoking piece about everything happening now in our society and may happen in the near future. I don't follow the whole liberal vs conservative diatribe because I feel both sides are the same side of a coin.
The movie touched on both liberal and conservative issues while lumping those ideas into an issue involving alien species. There were memes in this film pushed on the audience beyond simply the anti-abortion concept. As other fans had said there are pro-sentient memes, "evil" human concepts, etc.
Prawn Elders realise they need Earths help & resources/bio-weapon capability to defeat this new enemy species, - they race back to Earth , lets say 4 or 5 yrs later (not 3 ) like wilkus expected, Christopher finds wilkus (full grown prawn- like they show him makeing flowers at end of D-9) putting gun to his head in desperate final depression.
Wilkus is so happy to see christopher he forgets he wants to be human again,
(later dialogue; it's not so bad be a prawn"wilkus say's")
Christopher tells him of impending attack, Wilkus agrees to help him & talk with human leaders/military (side story-wilkus's wife realizes her husbands alive & is going to help humanity-still loves him even tho he's a prawn.
Six or so months pass earth & few ships of prawns mount a full scale new weapons resistance style "all-out-movement- WAR" against new Alien species that threatens them both.
Happy Earth prawn culture envelopes & big victory party ! - "new weapons found from Alien species craft to integrate for future invasion-Movie sequel(threequel) watevr :D
First of all, I don't see any indication that this film is more conservative than liberal.
The abortions had nothing to do with being conservative.The only damn reason that it had any relevance was that they PLANNED to have those prawns and the MNU just decided on the spot to abort them for them.This was not anti-abortion; this was anti-killing-someone-elses'-babies.
As for the liberal "garbage".
Let's see...
1.) There were various "conspiracy theorists" who all happened to know the truth about what happened.They believed that Wikus was being held captive under quarantine.This isn't unlikely.This supports the idea of government conspiracy.It supports the idea that some small groups who are seen as insane by the majority of people have some validity to their statements and should, perhaps, be heard.
2.)Conservatives are racist.In the film, Wikus becomes one of them and suddenly has a change of heart.Near the end, the struggle is no longer just to get his half of the deal.I mean, for a while there, he wasn't even sure he was going to make it out alive.He just wanted for Christopher to get himself out of there and maybe make something better for HIS people.The good of the people instead of the good of one individual.That's not a conservative idea.Selfishness is a conservative idea...which brings me to point three.
3.) The bad guys! The antagonists in this movie are the weapons manufacturers who all badly want to get their hands on these alien weapons(and figure out how they work so they can get to work making their own and killing more people).They do research on living creatures, most of which is well within the limits of "torture".What do they do this for?MONEY.I don't see how this movie is not about the destruction caused by big business.The entire thing was just a huge critique of unethical behavior BY big business.
To others suggesting to keep conservative and liberal ideas out of the film because it is foreign: Liberal and conservative might be what we call it here, but I'm pretty sure that the message is supposed to stand anywhere it is viewed.
I don't see what conservatives see as soo daaamn wrong with anything "social".How is that even an insult?To care for the well being of others instead of making sure you have a way to be above everyone?For a highly religious group, they sure don't seem to have any morals.
But honestly, not trying to be critical or anything, but don't play the "Typical liberal" card whenever you want to get your opinion across. JT is right. We all need to not start political debates in every forum. Which is kinda hypocritical of me, seeing as I'm saying this in the first place, but I just thought you should know.
As for whether I want a Hollywood movie... I mean to some extent this already is. It's released by Sony Pictures, it has a fairly sizeable budget. That's not always a bad thing. Sometimes Hollywood makes good movies. Star Trek, earlier this summer, was a very good movie. The trick is to make the sequel bigger and better without falling too far down that Hollywood hole and losing what it is that made District 9 so good.
The D9 story was not brilliant. It bordered on stupid. The premise was excellent. One of the reasons it was excellent was in the balance struck between what we are told and what we are not. The sense of mystery and discovery was excellent at the beginning of the film.
A sequel will not be able to be as mysterious as the sequel. The magician will need to show you how the trick works. And that will ruin it.
Ya know, the last time I checked , a movie doesn't have to be mysterious to be unique and magical.. and a sequel doesn't spell the end of a good idea just because we know what happened in the first part. Why over-analyze it? Or maybe you just like to debate for the sake of debating, which in my mind is a total waste of time. Its a good story pushed by word of mouth dude and thats why its been successful- the "story" and premise go hand in hand. Its that simple. Really! And the word is out that these people know how to make a good story appear on film. If by "ruining" you mean that we know the storyline/documentary film style/moral intention then Empire Strikes Back would've ruined Star Wars and Temple of Doom would've ruined Raiders. We know that that did not happen. Those movies were great and continued to build "mystery" throughout each one.
One thing you are assuming is that the directors will do the same type of movie the 2nd time around (if there is a 2nd time) - sci-fi with a moral subtext and 3 dimensional characters whose "good" or "bad" status is ambiguous. Of course now we know what side the characters are on now- certainly it doesn't mean the next movie is "ruined". That assumption is laughable under any context. The writers will just have to out-do themselves with something different. There's so many ways the next movie could play out.
Don't chop down the tree before it grows ;)
They stopped at Earth because they ran out of fuel.
heres the source material http://io9.com/5331799/district-9s-director-tel...
If their will be a District 11, maybe Wikus has to go back to the prawn world to change With this struggle, the prawns start to value humanity as a reflection of themselves.
1. Blomkamp should not waste anymore of his time on that doomed movie
2. good video games dont make good movies, and that being said mediocre games make even worse movies examples the mario bros movie (i think everyone could agree that mario bros is truly a great video game but the movie was absolutly terrible! , as for mediocre bloodrayne, ok game even worse movie)
3 halo is unimaginative and dull
4 only a select group of people still have faith in the halo francise, therefore a smaller market than the movie would have had say a couple years ago
5 making a halo movie now is just beating a dead armour-clad horse
6 you cant polish $h!t just by making a movie from its license
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I don't understand what you are trying to say here. I am not being sarcastic. Do you mean "in Johannesburg, is Wikas/Copley"
OR.. just like the main character morphed into a prawn by being infected maybe their species was also like humans and morphed into a race of prawns through some kind of genetic abnormality or virus, or whatever. Thus being quarintined on a ship to a place that they will stay until the "motherland" of where they are from finds a cure. in order to keep from more being infected on their planet.
and when he returns not only does he fix Wicus but also himself and all his people. and the human race good bad or whatever is the basis or first step (so to speak) in the evolution of being a thinking advancing and being aware of its own existance species
this one could be twisted ya know.. like christopher isnt the "one" but just
like a normal person or prawn that saves his people.. or like i was saying
maybe they are all human also but the virus turned them into prawns just
like the main character. that might be interesting
this one could be twisted ya know.. like christopher isnt the "one" but just
like a normal person or prawn that saves his people.. or like i was saying
maybe they are all human also but the virus turned them into prawns just
like the main character. that might be interesting
Remember josh, not everyone has seen the movie.
If you haven't seen the first movie and you don't want to be spoiled, then you have no business reading about the sequel.
Part of the movie was in documentary-style, not all of it.
1. What if, in the three-year interval before Christopher Johnson returns, Wikus actually adapts so much to Prawn society and sees the evil nature of humanity (including the betrayal of his own wife), he rejects being returned to human form and wants to stay a Prawn? He has so much intel on MNU, he could help the Prawns take it down.
2. What if some governments from other countries pressure MNU to relocate and redistribute the Prawn population to several different countries?
3. Though the Prawns were in District 9 for nearly 30 years before eviction, we never saw any evidence of any type of Prawn leadership. What if one springs up and successfully negotiates with MNU to establish its own republic on Earth and gets UN recognition?
4. We saw a brief glimpse of human sympathizers demonstrating outside District 9 before eviction. What if a human-based Prawn sympathizer movement takes root and wages war on MNU and fights for Prawn liberation?
5. What if, when Christopher Johnson returns, with a fully functional ship, or ships, he's able to broker a deal with MNU -- turn over all the Prawns in exchange for technology transfer?
6. Christopher talked about how he and his people just wanted to go home. But how safe would it be for them to do so? What kind of mission were 1.8 million Prawns on, when they crash-landed on Earth? With all the weapons they were packing, it couldn't have been a purely peaceful or scientific mission. Were they refugees fleeing extermination or persecution? Where were they going?
7. How about some backstory a la "Lost," explaining just how the Prawns strayed off-course and ended up marooned on Earth?
The "prawns" that landed here on earth are all (mostly) workers, as stated in the movie. That is why they have no reason to secure any sort of leadership or traits outside of scavenging for food and minor fighting. I think we will get to see more types of Prawns in the sequel...
1. When we see people who have been dehumanized or marginalized, such as street people, behaving as marginalized - urinating in the streets, eating out of garbage cans, insistent begging, it is easy not to relate to them, see them as non-human. This is the case even if we have been instrumental in creating that marginalization. It wasn't hard to see the aliens as not needing compassion in the early scenes. They looked strange, were called "prawns" (I wonder why no one mentioned this is comparable to the "N"word or in South Africa the "K" word?) It was reminiscent of whites in apartheid South Africa, speaking demeaningly about their "help's" poor hygiene, yet offering only a cold water outdoor spigot for their daily hygiene - no tubs or showers or hot water!!!!!! It wasn't until we saw the "human" emotions of Chris, his care for his son, his dismay at the use of his species for medical experiments - that we could easily care about him or root for him - see him as "human" -certainly MORE human than any of the humans offered up as examples.
2. Another point is that though the aliens have access to all kinds of terrifying weapons, they do not use them on humans, or at least only when threatened. (I may have missed a few examples, but I was amazed with all their technology - specifically designed to respond to their biology - they did not retaliate). Was it a case of Jews being led to the gas chamber or slaves in America not rising up for so long? Or was it a reference to the riots in Soweto - initially at least, whites in general were not targeted unless they had been cruel or demeaning to the black population. I remember a newspaper report about a white man brutally beaten who had worked in Soweto allegedly for the betterment of blacks, only to discover from people who worked with him that despite his humanistic profession he treated blacks like dirt. I remember being amazed at the restraint shown. Was this being reflected - or were the aliens that survived "leaderless" as someone mentioned and not of a class to use those weapons?
Just wondering . . .
The best thing for D10 is to go universal so it relates to all shameful events of racism and displacement and at the same time none can claim being xclusively potrayed.
leereyno99- His review doesnt state that all corporations are evil. Personally, I like movies that exploit corporate misdoings because SO MANY of them are doing harmful and greed motivated things like this that you and I will never see or hear about.
I know UFO doubters will jump on me, but in the sequel it would be sick to have an alliteration to the Phoenix Lights or the unexplained recent UFO's in Texas.. something else besides just the apartheid angle to keep the movie grounded in different "possible" real events.
First and foremost why in the world would getting splashed in the face with there fuel source cause him to mutate into one of them. Even if i mutated him y would the mutation take their form. yes yes i know its alien but it is unfair to just try an explain everything a away with that simple fact. its like answering every question with by saying god did it. lets just chalk it up to bad writing. It Really did not make any since that the alien was looking for cans of their fuel on earth that means they had to have brought it with them when they left the ship and just discarded it y would they do this!!! Cause i think it would have been a lot easier to just look for it while they were on the ship.
Second off there were many things in the movie that was not explained why could the understand each other so well but neither side could speak a single word of the others language.
Third Why is there a super high tech ship with aliens that are dumber as dumb as a pack of wild dog and acted as such. even if they were just workers and they had a superior race then why would they give them a ship and deadly guns.
Forth how did they become stranded when the only thing keeping the ship from leaving was the fact on one was on it. i mean why would he detach that control room from the bigger ship stranding them there.
I just think this story line was just haphazardly thrown together for a quick buck after they canceled HALO and based on this movie im am elated Peter Jackson and the other guy did not make HALO they would have messed it up beyond belief Because when it does come out it will be about the prequel book by Eric Nylund like it alway should have been
Re: Language issue- If you were around Chinese people constantly for years and years, don't you think you'd have learned a little Chines by then?
Re: Why is there a super high tech ship with "dumb" aliens- read some of the back story (see this link http://io9.com/5331799/district-9s-director-tel...), and in the beginning of the movie you can see that many of the aliens aboard the main ship died. The resilient worker aliens were the ones that made it down to earth- the alien army generals and queen aboard the ship died from a virus or bacteria they picked up from another planet.
Re: Being stranded- they needed to be on a life-sustaining planet to survive as disease was ravaging them so thats why they detached & came down in the smaller ship. Other aliens were transported to earth by other (human) means. They didnt have fuel necessary to leave which is why Chris spent 20 years making the fuel needed to escape.
sorry your questions are surface questions and easily answered if you did a little research and/or actually paid attention during the movie, which it doesnt seem like you did, at all
District 9 could have easily been a video game if you think about. I could see this as a third person shooter. You would play as Wikus and progress through the action. That would easliy be the next Halo killer!
Neil Bloomkamp has really impressed me with his creative talent, He built this epic Sci-Fi movie from scratch and introduced us to the first on screen pulse cannon. I just get so excited everytime I think of the possibilties the future of this movie could bring us. The excitement of going to see future Neil Bloomkamp, Peter Jackson movies is growing in me and I hope that many more movies like this come from them. This is the most satisfying movie experiance I had since 1990's Batman hit the big screen. I hope that the sequel will show more of the alien technology at work like the mech suit and the pulse cannon both are my favorites! :)
This could easily be the next epic movie experiance that Star Wars has come to be! IMHO of course. What do you think?
XcceLL
Make up your mind! Remember Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick? Both good movies, but the second was obviously a sell out and unnecessarily Hollywood.
Yes, there are huge things to explore, but the genius of this movie is that it sticks with issues and drama instead of pushing excitement and effects. Any sequel, to be worth of the original, needs to maintain that integrity, stay personal, stay focused on story and characters, let the effects fade away into the back ground. Going big looses everything that made this movie great.
The sequel should maintain this balance and irony. It should continue to have a social and moral message. The plot should be unpredictable yet appropriate.
It should come out exactly three years later on the same date. This would not only improve the realism of the story that the first movie managed to create by sucking us in documentary style and allowing things to progress in a more realistic, messy fashion, but it would build anticipation for the movie and increase their revenue at the box office.
Wikus is a true, literary Christ-figure and his incarnation from human to alien to save a captive and oppressed race is a very successful literary motif for an epic plot.
Ironically wikus goes against the cruel savagery of the human establishment to save a race of what to humans, are a bunch of cruel savages. It would be a great balance of plot for the aliens to return with Christopher as a captain and then Wikus to act in a reverse role. First he saves the aliens from the humans, next he saves the humans from the aliens!!
If CHristopher returns with a fleet of alien military ships ready to rescue the alien prisoners and enact justice upon Earth, Wikus, as the only prawn who is also technically of human origin, a true hybrid, is the only one who can be a mediator of peace. He could represent to the aliens why humanity is worth saving. In this he becomes a hero and savior of both parties. I'd love to see a war begin, but wikus save humanity at its brink or climax, even though the humans might deserve it. This would continue his CHrist-figure role while providing a peaceful ending.
Another possibility is to have the war develop and have the aliens ready to blow up the planet (or something similar that would annihilate humanity), then Christopher and Wikus go against the upper alien establishment with a small following of aliens who actually believe in the humans and realize that they are not all cruel and evil. Have them bring peace in such a reversal.
Also i think that the prawns should all turn out to be a LOT more intelligent than the humans think. For instance, maybe they eat catfood and rubber etc because these substances are the only things that contain rare and important nutrients they need for survival and they know it. They may all be near starvation and decificient of such nutrients driven to desperation. Obviously the captain , Christopher shows extreme intelligence and Wikus really underestimates this (" looks like he decorates his walls with old computers " -- when its really a huge super computer constructed to program the crashed command nodule pod). Chris builds a bomb in like 5 seconds out of spare parts. The child of CHris is extremely skilled at using their technology. Chris, his child and even his friend who gets killed at the begining are the same as the other prawns in appearance, theres no reason for them to be a differnt type of prawns who are somehow the intellignet ones. Obviously some prawns are smarter than others, some are working class , others might be engineers or technicians on the ship, others cooks or cleaners. who knows, but show that they are by far more intelligent than even the humans!
I think the sequel should show maybe flashback scenes or something that reveals the home planet to be very civilized , with all the prawns as very intelligent, creative sentient beings , a place that Earth pales to in comparison in beauty, civilization, and culture. This is hinted at by Chris "How many moons does our planet have? -- "Seven. Earth only has one" Maybe surprise the MNU in a humbling moment of truth that they are really mistreating and killing a much more intelligent and peaceful race (that possibly has the technology to improve humanity and cure disease).
So many possible directions! I hope i 'm not disappointed by the sequel.
Anyway, this is my new favorite movie... i m going to see it again sooN!
Can't wait for District 10!
in the end though seeing more futuristic weaponry would be awesome :p. also we need to find out why the ship came to earth i nthe first place.
what im trying to say is ,MR. BLOMKAMP! Please look into Half life 2 for possible ideas for the sequel. I don't think that the sequel should be like HALO. I don't like it.....it's boring after 2 min. and i played all of them.
And i agree with the above posts,don't go to hollywood......it suck's...it's boring....it's like a Computer 5 Gigabyte disc(all the same over and over again story's),instead of 5 Terrabyte's ^^.
I belive someone above said "MAKE IT BIG" & "RUBB YOUR SUCCSESS INTO THE MOVIE" or so...i agrre 1,000% on thiz :) Do ass you want & don't let anyone rubb it into your nose,coz then it wont be your move! But ideas are all over,that means more info's,bigger movie!
It's shoul'd be 50-75% full action & 25-50 chillout,discover felling,story thing,..ect.
If u like my ideas,contact me here Mr. movemaker ^^ i liked D-9 very much :)
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1. Develop a good story line with cool graphics/stories of the Prawns home planet- spend a lot of time there with creative coolness
2. Christopher Johnson said medical equipment on the mothership could change Wikus back to human- how would he know? has he changed humans back before? maybe the prawns were all once human and their original visit 28 years ago was to return to earth and enlighten us all- but their trip got messed up and they were ill etc.
3. Maybe something cool about the fluid- how can the fluid be so powerful? powers ships/fixes humans etc etc.
4. maybe MNU has enough data to USE the alien weapons left behind. maybe MNU develops the weapon technology and does bad things then when Chistopher returns he kicks their ass
5. Maybe it comes out that WE CONTACTED THEM and thats why they came here!! ie- the movie CONTACT with jodie foster - her trip through the machine was to the PRAWN WORLD! woot
so many good possibilities
Christopher Johnson gets back to his home planet, to round up the troops. Upon his return he discovers that their planet is actually losing stability, so now this rescue mission is -also- an evacuation. The ship returns to earth but due to space-travel issues, it hasn't been three years, it's been thirty.
Christopher Johnson returns, with his fully grown son. (Prawn age differently.) full of fire and brimstone, ready to liberate his fellow prawn, only to discover -->
That the prawn have been peacefully integrated into earth society.
Now the prawn on earth have for the most part become earthlings, while some militant (read: black panther metaphor) prawn are very much on the "lets go back to prawn-land" ticket, by and large no one wants anything to do with it, and in that intervening time, humans have learned how to operate the prawn weaponry.
Naturally, at some point, **spoiler** Christopher Johnson gets shot, and it's up to Wikus and CJ-Jr to somehow find a balance between the earth-prawn and the space-prawn.
There were no unanswered questions. I have had this discussion with everyone I went to see the movie with. Wikus had his send off, as they showed him fashioning the flower. It is ok to just assume that things will be fixed. We were left to assume that the Prawns were coming back to free their species, and whether that was by peaceful or violent means is really unnecessary to explore.
If there is a sequel, have it nothing to do with Wikus. Expand the universe, but the story that was presented in District 9 is done.
Wikus... Now... I do not know if he should return human or simply stay a shrimp. After all, he did work for the MNU and he was quite heavy handed with them. So being a shrimp/prawn whatever is due justice for him. Saying that, Christopher did promise to return for him, so it would be prudent to return him to his human state.
Now a sequel has to be planned carefully. In Alien, you were slowly introduced to the Alien itself and the charcter 'Ripley', which followed on all the way through to Alien: Ressurection. Aliens being the best of them all in my oppinion. So, this should typically be a sequel like that of Aliens. You've met Christopher and his son and Wikus and the big bad corparation MNU. So lots of guns, ships, blood, gore, story and plot would definately get my butt in the seat at the movies. Maybe Christopher dies on the way to his homeworld, maybe it's upto his son to keep the promise he made to Wikus... Maybe his son is the one that gets mad and angry and turns his armada of ship's guns on the MNU. Anything is possible. But seriously.... I cannot bloody wait for it. I thoroughly enjoyed 'District 9'. Defo 5/5.
I believe the success of this film lies solely in the fact that it is a social commentary, blended beautifully with science fiction. Making it "less like Alien Nation", and more like Aliens, would be a disaster. James Cameron's re-imagining of the Alien story worked for one big reason, because he wasn't Ridley Scott, and he knew it. When a sequel to a successful movie inherits a new director, the aesthetic changes, and Cameron embraced that. Instead of butchering the sequel and attempting another horror film, he did what he does best, action.
However, the potential sequel to District 9 doesn't appear to be inheriting a new director, and therefor the aesthetic could continue undamaged. Based on an interview I read with Blomkamp, he appears to want Wikus in the sequel. With that being said, and knowing that District 9 is based on his life experiences, I pray a sequel is far from blowing "some shit up". The sequel could work in the following ways:
The documentary style could stay -- starting the sequel similar to its predecessor; after the events have already occurred. The movie would begin with interviews talking about the return of Christopher Johnson and the events that unfolded. This would allow for the social commentary to continue, and unfold more of Blomkamp's vision of what the District 9 is/was.
I whole heatedly believe Blomkamp will leave out any essence of Halo, as that will be his calling card to Hollywood. He can maintain the independent integrity of District 9, and get his Hollywood jollies off through Halo, without fornicating the two. If you want a Blomkamp action, Halo style movie, just wait for Halo. Otherwise, enjoy the District series for what I believe they will continue to be; Sci-fi inspired, documentary style social commentaries.
How about the weapons in the ship? They could only use them once they get on Earth's surface of course. They were allowed to use them on us, just so they have a planet to settle into. They weren't welcome back at their own planet. That's why no one came to their rescue since they landed here 28 years ago..
Hmmm...
Then again considering their anatomy, a watery environment like earths is probably attractive...
I don't know, but one definate item needs to ber addressed, i haven't seen a sequel which was good without it being part of a three part series. If a sequel is going to be made it needs to be part of a trilogy, thus parts written in the second movie need to watch out that there is enough material, and enough links for the next movie.
I though a cool idea might be to have the inteligent prawn to go back to his superiors and get turned down for full on war, but be granted an elite unit to go and resque his friend and fix him, and develop the story from there. If anyone has seen Appleseed (#1) the movie, the into is what i am thinking about as far the the second story goes, Wikus should be still hunted and hes about to be had and his ass gets saved by the elite team. =]
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Before doing so, I think that Christopher Johnson should give Wikus Van De Merwe a choice. Either stay an alien, adapt to the lifestyle, and live amongst them on their planet, or return him to his human state and die amongst his fellow humans.
I want to see a story where MNU bounces back from public backlash and culls off the remaining Aliens in a bid to steal their DNA and gain control over their weapon systems. This could set the scene for an Alien invasion movie where Wikus is humanities only hope of defending Earth against the onslaught.
Don't mind what they do for the sequel but I want to see more fight scenes, Wikus in that walker was intense. (loved the lighting gun seemed like a rip from Unreal tournament)
Top movie Peter Jackson does it again :)
Also, I wasn't too keen on the fact that their "fuel" also, for some reason, changed humans into prawns. Didn't make much sense to me.
Cody, I completely agree with you on including some backstory in the sequel.
Nonetheless, did i miss something, becuase how on earth do the humans and the aliens understand one anothers language????????????????????
And i agree. Please no hollywood, or america or even an american flag. The fact that the setting was in South Africa just gave this film that edge. I loved how it was set in the daytime, in the sun, as opposed to the night or in a major western city with all the sterotypes of a sci fi movie....etc etc
They should continue on this vibe...Anyway if someone can point out how the aliens and humans understand oneanother, then i would be grateful.
Thanks
He's NOT being followed by the documentary camera...thats a news camera and the documantary takes part at the whole thing afterwards...pretty embarrassing to write so much bullshit...
Set a course for earth. Kill everything . . ."
(dont you get goosebumps just thinking of it)
5/5 for the movie.
I personally don't think a sequel could be held because of the guerilla style camera (wasn't cloverfield ment to have a sequel anyone?). The ideas for a district 10 are almost limitless, with a strong ability to move on and franchise out (sub stories, mini series the whole money grabbing sha-bang). But I do think that the filming style will limit the possibilities of the District.
not much time till lights out. but if you plan to make a sequel, it would be phenomenal if it took place at or near the 'prawn' homeplanet. there, we can learn more about them - their culture, civilization, society, technology, what "they" call themselves, and of course their actual names. conflict with humans could erupt from what "Christopher Johnson" had observed and reported about the humans' experiments and how they were treated. perhaps, though, he saw difference with humans and thay they do not all deserve the same fates. perhaps other 'prawns' would disagree. and perhaps CJ is actually a high-ranking official on the 'prawn' homeland. commander of the mothership from the movie? you think?
Secondly, They want to do a sequel. It is qouted that blomkamp would LOVE to revisit the world of D-9 again. This was done in a sneak peek interview in entertainment magazine. A sequel would be great, yes yes, everyone has...Gorgeous ideas. But you know, this man will probably take a look and see all of these...then go with something that none of you thought. Or he could just...not do anything at all.
anyways. I love the ideas. People need to stop being so negative on here. and come on Arguing on the internet? Childish. :3
I don't agree with you on this subject. Trough the beginning of the movie we have this idea because it's the human point of view. This view is clearly the same aparthaid had of africans. That's where the movie is brilliant, making a movie about the aparthai regime (the eviction scene is based on true events) but at the same time an amazing dramatic sci-fi movie.
I guess any human being that is locked in a slum, being abused that way like they where for 20 years, would be violent. Specially if you imagine how advanced technologically you are and then being treated like an animal just because your different. I guess I would turn violent too... But I'm also sure there where alot on those 1,8 million aliens that where like Christopher Johnson.
When chris back to earth to invade human and wikus stop him and convince him to stop
Then fix wikus back to his human form
That whats i want to see
i cant wait for a sequel .
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Is a sequel even necessary? Many questions were left unansweared, yet perhaps the greatest aspect of the film is to allow the viewer to impose post-structulism and draw their own conclusions as to what happened.
thinking of it somewhat... the feel reminds me a LOT of half life for some reason.
but more half life 2 than 1.
I think he'll return to his home planet and gather an army to return to Earth and revisit the pain and destruction that was caused to his race, on the humans, and rightly deserved. Mega-corporations willing to exploit every aspect of life to make a buck definitely needs to be destroyed, maybe they'll just take revenge on that to spare the human race of the horrible atrocities it plagues planet Earth with. It would be nice to see it happen, if only in fiction.
-where do they come from?
-why earth?
-why not let them leave?
-why so mean to theze prawns?
-how the hell is it that the fuel for the ship makes hime change to a prawn?
so any1 can answer these questions that would be awesome and thnx ;D
Nothing more to say.
Mail this baby to the mothership !
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Oh maybe, yes, some more "no to do" things :
- don't put "america or whatever win and flag is floating" shit into it, fucking please.
- don't make it full happy ending. Pussies like it, we're not.
- don't make the little prawn die, man, it sucks. It makes people cry for polygons.
- don't even mention any nuclear weapon. PUH-LEAZE.
Last one : don't sell it to videogames. Or if yes, avoid the average shitheads mega producers who don't give a crap about making something good but something that they can sell to retards. Think how great this movie is and think about a game about it. What can we do ? Pretty hard, uh ? In any case of doubt, just fucking DON'T.
I completely disagree with you. Keep the story on the ground and don't get lost in space.
About the "gimmicky" documentary style, I feel it's necessary to achieve Blompkamp's ultra realistic film style. That's what gives it the gritty raw look we've come to love in this film. Or would you rather have a Transformers style film where everything is grand and full of eye candy and explosions? Asking Blompkamp to change his view and style is to ask him to go Hollywood...
Make a prequel next:
told from the POV of a civilian, maybe even a teenager, who befriends a prawn. then you learn more about them through this view and more (not all) of the story, such as how humans and prawns understand each other and etc...
Then make a sequel:
Chris comes back in three years because he is a man of his words (he has to be, or else, no one will care about the prawns anymore--they really are just "prawns"). the full back story is revealed.
definitely do not go halo style and make it a "space war". that will ruin everything. stay down to earth. actually, any war would be silly b/c their technology would just own us.
But I would like to comment on the human-prawn relationship. A question was put forth as to how that relationship would be, with the majority of prawns being violent and mischevious. There was a mention in the movie of the idea that they have perhaps lost their leader, and that the prawns all seemed followers with no one to follow and thus became aimless delinquents, and rather unintelligent.
Christopher is a very stark contrast. He is intelligent, has the knowledge and self control with how to deal with humans. I believe that he is of a leader type class, but something is missing that prevents the other prawns from being 'linked up' and good obedient followers. This element no doubt in my mind is the human's oppression. Perhaps something of their tech is necessary to facilitate this link up, and the humans confiscate all their tech.
However, when he says to turn District 10 into a galactic epic, I'm going to have to disagree. That would take away from the interesting style and theme he'd used for district 9, and turn it into an entirely different genre of movie altogether. Certainly the "epic" genre is an excellent one, but not fit for the purposes of District 10.