Sharlto Copley wakes up suffering from amnesia lying in an Open Grave surrounded by tens of corpses. A mute Chinese woman helps him out and he makes his way to a house where he finds a handful of survivors who’ve also forgotten everything about themselves. Who are they? Who killed all of those people? And…
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More South African movie news. (I’m a little slack jawed with incredulity by this point: viva South Africa viva!) Word is out that SA-born District 9 helmer Neill Blomkamp is working on an original sci-fi flick called Elysium and that Sharlto Copley has signed to star. According to Firstshowing.net, Blomkamp’s pitch to studios includes a…
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District 9 finally opened in South Africa. What a bizarre experience: watching a Hollywood movie play out with South African accents and attitudes and familiar locations. Even the movie’s star, Sharlto Copley, is a friend of mine, and though I can be accused of bias for saying so, he’s really astoundingly good in this. The…
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Having trashed the lack of thought (and science) in Terminator Salvation, I was more than pleasantly surprised to come across this new South African SciFi movie District 9. Based on a creepy short film called Alive in Joburg, it’s produced by Peter Jackson (yes, he of Lord of the Rings fame) and features a clever…
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