Neill Blomkamp's "District 9" Follow-Up "Elysium" Gets Plot Synopsis

Cool, good director. I'm excited to see what he can do with a bigger budget. There's not enough decent sci fi films now days! Sort it out hollywood you bastards.

So Matt Dahmon is on a sci fi mission for socialism?
Not a political statement just a joke. But he is.

Damn I read that thinking it was a district 9 sequel because of the article title. My fault I guess. Plot sounds interesting though.

Could be interesting.

District 9 was cool, hopefully he can keep it up.

Been wondering where Bloomkamp had been. Good to see him sticking with the genre and subject matter he's good at. Can't wait to see a trailer.

Interesting concept.

I liked District 9. I'm in.

Elysium sounds a lot like Beverly Hills - a place where only the rich can live, fenced off from the rest of the world and where the residents have no idea how the real world works because their heads are so far up in the clouds

^yea thats it,the clouds
with their cupcake ATMs and spoiled lil brat drivers

as usual the people with the most money have the least common sense

Spielberg better not lay a finger on District9
sequel

Oh, I get it, more political satire in the form of science fiction. The wealthy live in paradise above and beyond the decayed ruins of the poverty stricken masses. A thinly veiled indictment of capitalism, I guess. What else can be expected from the billionaire Hollywood club.

Awesome. Loved District 9. Hope this still has that spark.

Mink, you need Jesus and a big bag of weed, bro.

Matt Damon's a sh*tty actor and Jodie Foster has more balls than him.this Dystopia future bullsh*t has been retold too many f*cking times.BLAH

@Mink - Spot-on.
@W0WCraft1 - You can't deny this starting to take trend.

I thought the first was OK. But I don't need aliens to point out politics for me. I'm a big boy. It started getting depressingly typecast after reading "two classes of people exist".

Is it just me or are underdog stories a waste of anyone else's time too? I don't have patience for cinema's stereotypical heroic babying. It's seriously as if there's a laminate of instructions for a "just cause" movie now. Throw in bad guys with influence vs less fortunate people and give them a would-be [almost reluctant] champion.

"Throw in bad guys with influence vs less fortunate people and give them a would-be [almost reluctant] champion"

You must have never wasted your time reading Das Kapital...

"A thinly veiled indictment of capitalism, I guess. What else can be expected from the billionaire Hollywood club."

If the movie was by Steven Spielberg or George Lucas, maybe I would agree with you, but it was written and directed by Neil Blomkamp. He hardly qualifies for the "Billionaire Hollywood Club." In regards to the film medium, District 9 was pretty fresh. I am very interested in what Blomkamp does with a bigger budget as District 9 was made with a relatively small amount.

"If the movie was by Steven Spielberg or George Lucas, maybe I would agree with you, but it was written and directed by Neil Blomkamp."

*laughing* Right. And the financing came WHERE again? That's right. The billionaire Hollywood club, or some foreign equivalent, perhaps South African, but regardless, I damned well know if it had been a George Orwell attack on socialism, it would have NEVER seen the light of day, but hey, I bet old Neil is rolling in the dinero now.

Anyway, you little kids and your paper gods. I wonder how often you apply all your defensive posturing towards people that actually matter, and not celebrities.

You know, actors, directors, and other assorted celebrities, people who contribute little to nothing to the advancement of mankind, and who wouldn't give a flying f*ck if you dropped dead.

And no, I don't care if you agree with me, so you spare me your self-importance.

"Mink, you need Jesus and a big bag of weed, bro."

Both are quite often, but not always, crutches for weaklings.

Pass.

I was exaggerating of course when I said you need JESUS.
You know, religion.

"I wonder how often you apply all your defensive posturing towards people that actually matter, and not celebrities."

I usually reserve my thoughts on politics, religion, science, etc., for other forums I frequent, but you are right; I spend too much time on here defending and discussing people who don't contribute anything to the world. Why haven't they (all film makers, actors, actresses, producers, screenwriters, etc.) caught on yet that they aren't adding anything to the discussion? They would probably be studying the sciences, like me, if there was money in that. I wish that everyone in the music, literature, film, "arts" world would stop with the s*** and do something more for society like business man, lawyers, philosophers, politicians, farmers, basically everyone else does.

My nihilist friend would tell me to include everyone in the category of people that contribute nothing to the world, and I would tell him to shut the f*** up an die already.

I have loved Sci-Fi films all my life and end rewatching old ones over and over again. It's great to see Hollywood finally pushing some quality ones out.

Another film about the problems of crony capitalism. They make films like this year after year and the Republicans still get elected to office, clearly people are not getting the message.

I'm casting my ballot for Lenin this year. He solved all those capitalist problems over in Mother Russia, so I just know he can do the same for us Americans.

Vive la communism!

Yeah because reeling in corruption in politics automatically leads to communism...

So Battle Angel Alita without the cyborgs ?