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Peter Jackson, the genre master, produces this film under the directorial debut of Neill Blomkamp. Action, Science fiction,
thriller and drama, what more words can describe District 9 more appropriately? The title of the film has been inspired by
the historical events which happened in the South Africa under apartheid in a Cape Town residential area named District 6.
Tagline ‘You are not welcome here’ suggests that there is something repulsive about District 9.
In the year 1990, a huge star ship carrying messy population of aliens appeared over the city of Johannesburg, South Africa.
2 decades later, the initial welcome of these refugees by the humans has faded out and the camp for refugees where these
aliens lived has deteriorated into militarized ghetto area called as District 9. Here, the aliens are confined and are
exploited to the extreme. In the year 2010, the team of Wikus van der Merwe is called for forcibly evicting these aliens from
the area and it is during this operation, that Wikus comes across a strange chemical and seeks help from his two new friends
who are from the Prawns community, that is, the aliens. Because this substance changes his DNA, he has to help the aliens in
escaping from the planet so that he can be turned back to normal.
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Neill Blomkamp has directed the film; Terri Tatchell along with Blomkamp have written it and Peter Jackson produced it. As
far as the cast of the film is concerned, Sharlto Copley has played Wikus van de Merwe, Jason Cope played Grey Bradnam and
Sylvanie Strike played Dr. Katrina McKenzie.
The film has been produced by Peter Jackson under the company of Key Creatives. It was produced for $30 million and was shot
on the locations in Chiawelo, Soweto, showing fictional interviews, surveillance camera videos and news footage. Viral
marketing started in the year 2008 and its first theatrical trailer was made available during July 2009. The movie was
released in North America in August 2009 by the TriStar Pictures and instantly, it received worldwide positive reviews.
During the opening weekend of the movie, it received $37 million, which is more than its total cost of production. Sara
Vilkomerson from New York Observer, Lisa Schwarzbaum from Entertainment Weekly, Armond White from New York Press, all
contributed to the film reviews by providing their expert comments upon the movie.
