Delta Assault
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Dude. That sounds way more dumb.
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Neill Blomkamp: I have "every intention" to make District 10
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Dude. That sounds way more dumb.
yellow submarine
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I too, have every intention of sleeping with super models, it's just a few things I have to take care of first before I can.
I think a subtitle might be better.
District 9: The Return to (Insert alien planet name here)
He's got a funny idea of a trilogy for his films.
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The Everyman
90%, 68%, 30%
those are his rt scores. two fresh, one of which is insanely high and one bad movie.
oh, the horror.
People like to peg this guy as the next Shyamalan.
StormyTheRabbit
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ThoseDeafMutes
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I don't even think he's terrible at script writing overall, more like he needs some moderating influences and someone to tighten them up in a few places.
The ideal case would be that he films an adaptation of some kind of SF novel where all the big ideas have been done for him, because his mastery of SF action is great, and it would be nice to see some actual cutting edge SF done by him. Not to mention him doing films where there isn't a message giving the audience blunt-force-truama injuries.
Alien is a much bigger IP for Fox, than Chappie for Sony. A 50 mil budget is one thing, atleast 120 mil another. Mind you, I think Blomkamp will direct Alien. Its simply to late. But Fox will be more cautious, thats for sure.
Buttonbasher
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If there's any movie hat didn't need a sequel its District 9.
It ended on a large cliffhanger so I don't see this.
NoMoreTrolls
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Please dont. He'll just fuck it up 
It'll be his S. Darko.
It'll be his S. Darko.
I hated Donnie Darko as well, but critics and people seemed to like it.
Admiral Woofington
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I don't think it needs a sequel but that statement isn't true as it ended with many possibilities for a sequel and if I recall a cliffhanger.
That statement belongs to films like say Sixth Sense, Shutter Island, etc..
I wasn't even that big of a fan of District 9, but at least it was world class in comparison to Elysium and Chappie. I always found the first half of District 9 to be infinitely superior to its latter half, when it turned into a mindless action film. I used to think it would have been a better film had he maintained the social allegory of its first half, but having seen Elysium and Chappie, I'm not so sure that's the case anymore.
NoMoreTrolls
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It's the trajectory that's worrying. And Elysium is waay too high at 68%
Henchmen21
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How is it "too late"? I doubt Fox has sunk a single penny into the production yet. Hell, I doubt they're even done with the first draft of the script.
Naw bruh, he's a terrible writer from top to bottom. His characters and their motivations are simplistic crap. His dialog is horse shit. He relies on hamfisting social commentary and underlying allegories into his films, and he's about as subtle as a punch to the face. His narratives are a disjointed mess. Honestly, from a writing standpoint, he's legitimately bad.
Everyone? It's not the mid 2000s anymore, the cycle has come full circle and Science Fiction isn't a criminally ignored genre anymore. If he were in the business of making Space Operas (or good Science Fiction films, which are definitely still a rarity), then you'd have a point - but your standard action/set piece heavy Sci Fi film? There's plenty of it out there.
Patapwn
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But very little in the vain of district 9. Yeah, I guess if we're painting scifi with a very wide brush but there's clearly a subset that Blomkamp works within that isn't getting much if any love.
Danny Boyle, James Cameron, Christopher Nolan, Duncan Jones, Rian Johnson, Matt Reeves... some do. Many better.
TrumanBurbank
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You could include Darren Aronofsky also since The Fountain was sci fi.
Buttonbasher
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The ending was thought provoking, and I think would be greatly diminished by an answer to the Yes/No question posed. I saw the movie with a bunch of people who left the theater upset saying "Aw man! They're gonna make you wait until the sequel to find out what happens!" which misses the entire point of the ending.
The hint that the ending provides should be enough for most audiences, my dumbass friends excluded, I guess. It'd be like "Where's the Inception sequel? I need closure.".
I guess I'd be okay with a non-direct sequel that had nothing to do with Wilkus, but I don't think that's what they seem to be implying here. I just think anyone still looking for closure in District 9's ending is missing the point.
Leithkorias
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why district 10? there wasn't a district 8 unless he's gonna film that as his prequel to district 9 after district 10.
Maybe because the camp that was erected for the aliens in the first place was named district 9? And maybe because all movie long they were trying to move the aliens to a new camp? And maybe because at the end of the movie they said they sucessfully moved all the aliens to a new camp called district 10?
I mean, that's just my uneducated opinion. I wasn't paying any attention during the movie
Admiral Woofington
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Is it wrong that now I'm singing "whooooooooooa oooooooooooh here he comes! Watch out Alien he'll chew you up! Whooooooooooooooooa oooooooh here Neil comes! He's the franchise eater!"
I may be wrong here, but I think films that come from acclaimed directors get an initial rush of "Oh, well this isn't as good." that would not occur in the fourth or fifth failed movie.
It's like a buffer film. They walk into the theater thinking "This ought to be good." and feel a need to apologize to the director for having to review the shit film poorly. The good reviews are from people without the spine to say the film is poor
Oh. So Fincher continuing to make movies after Alien 3 was a mistake then?
evilromero
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Probably still successful since the nobodies are in the minority.
Oh ok, guess I haven't been paying attention to the movie either.
samurai1226
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Please no. District 9 ist excellent and has a perfect ending for the story. District 10 will ruin it, since it never can be as good as D9 (regarding how Elysium and Chappie compares to it)
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
I will say this. After seeing Elysium, it strongly impressed me that from a purely visual standpoint, I'd actually like to see him take a shot at filming Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas. Paired with a good screenwriter to adapt the details well, and a sensible producer to keep things on track.
blame space
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meanwhile my script for the seventh sense sits on the shelf
AtomicSymphonic
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They ended District 9 with the words,
"4 years, I'll be back! (5?)"
I waited that long, saw no film.
It's a story that needs a proper finish. I felt like D9 was only part one of the story.
Baraka in the White House
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I'm pretty sure most people wanted District 10 before they wanted Chappie, and probably long before Elysium.
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