It’s been a few years since Neill Blomkamp has given an update on his plans for a sequel to District 9, his breakout Oscar-nominated film from 2009. In the years since, Blomkamp has kept busy but has never managed to equal the acclaim he earned on that awesome film, such a perfect blend of sci-fi action, humor, and social awareness. It was exactly what the genre needed at the time.
Blomkamp is still high on making the sequel, tentatively titled District 10, and told Dexerto that it could be happening soon…
“I am still working on it. The answer is it’s within the near future.”
I’ll believe it when I see it, but let’s hope that it does happen.
The original film tackled issues of racism, segregation, and xenophobia, taking place in an alternate South Africa where an alien insectoid race is discriminated against by the human population. Sharlto Copley starred as a clumsy bureaucrat who becomes infected and slowly transforms into a “Prawn”, and thus is forced to endure their plight caused by the cruel government.
Presumably, a sequel would pick up years later but I hope Copley returns. His performance as Wikus was extraordinary, and also his first as a professional actor. He’s been great ever since, but I feel like the District 9 story wouldn’t be right if he was absent.
Who knows when/if this will ever happen. Blomkamp will be busy for a while as he was recently set to direct Sony’s Gran Turismo movie.
