Neill Blomkamp is keen to return to District 9 and has a great idea for a sequel.
During an interview with IGN, the young sci-fi director admitted that he still wants to make ‘District 10’… and has a cool idea.
“I have an idea for District 10, which is really cool” he revealed. “The problem is I feel like Chappie is the end of three films that have a similar stylistic approach to them… Moving forward I would love to realise this idea of District 10 – I have every intention to do it, I just need to find the right time to do it – to not go back to Johannesburg and shoot something similar, yet.”
But while District 9 ends on a bit of a cliff hanger, it looks as though Blomkamp intended to leave it there… and his idea for the sequel is a completely new one.
“I had no idea [there would be a sequel] to the point that I remember walking into Peter Jackson’s office, which was down the hall from the editing room I was in. The edit was locked and the movie was basically done, and I walked into his office and was like ‘You know that the ending of the film is for a sequel?’ And he may have known that all along, but I didn’t, so he was like ‘Mmm, yeah, it is sort of, isn’t it?’ And then the film came out and I left New Zealand. But no, there was zero, pre-meditated… I was not hinting at anything, and nothing was thought of.”
“It was a completely self-contained story about the Nazi becoming the Holocaust victim,” he added. “It was the oppressor becoming the oppressed. And when it’s based on a character like that, it ends on that character.”
Of course, in reality it’s likely to be a few years before Blomkamp returns to the world of District 9. After all, he’s likely to be pretty tied up with the upcoming Alien sequel.
But will the fans really want to see more?
“I think that the story that I have now is what I would want to see as a fan of the first film, I think. I know I would want to see it – I assume other people would. It’s good man!”
Let’s just hope it’s as good an idea as its predecessor.
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