Although director Neil Blomkamp (District 9) is hard at work on his upcoming sci-fi film Elysium, many are curious what the director’s next project will be after the film is released next year. While many would want a sequel (or prequel) to District 9, Blomkamp has something else in mind: a comedy called Chappie.
Blomkamp said “I wrote Elysium on my own, but I wrote Chappie with [District 9 co-writer] Terri [Tatchell], that was written at the same time. It’s like a fundamentally more simple story, a comedy, a heartfelt story, in a science fiction setting. And it’s fucking hilarious, it’s a really cool film. I can say that with confidence… It’s a smaller film, a more esoteric one….[Chappie] may very well be my next project. It probably will be. But A) I wanna take some time off, and B) you need to know for sure that that’s what you’re going to do for X number of years. I have another idea for a horror, and for a comedy, but they’re way less fleshed out than Chappie. Chappie’s ready to go, and I think Chappie’s what I’m making. But I’m gonna take some time to make sure.”
And if one still is hoping for another District 9 film? Blomkamp’s answer may not please you: “The obvious place to work with [Jackson] again is on ‘District 10,’ or ‘District 8,’ whatever you wanna call it, however, I’m not sure I’m making that film. It would be cool, but these films take two or three years to make, and the investments are so extreme, you can’t accurately predict where you’ll be a few years from now, I believe. If you’re not creatively invested in it, you’re making a mistake, and that creative investment happens day to day. So I don’t know when that feeling for a ‘District Whatever’ film happens.”
So there you have it. The latest straight from the man’s mouth.
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