Neil Blomkamp directed the 2009 film District 9 from his book titled Alive in Joburg. This science-fiction film was a surprise box-office smasher and had 90% ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and 7.9 on IMDb. Inspired by the events of the Apartheid, this film tackles xenophobia and racism while maintaining a captivating storyline about aliens who have been malnourished and left as outcasts in South Africa. As conditions deteriorate and humans become increasingly intolerant of these aliens, they are forced by the government to relocate.
How much the project has progressed
Fans waited for a sequel to District 9 for years, but to no avail. Although Blomkamp has wanted a sequel for almost a decade, the film was not made to expand it into a franchise, and the director has had his hands full with many other projects. Finally, that sequel will gain some traction as Neil Blomkamp has announced via his official Twitter handle that a District 10 screenplay is currently being written. He is working on this screenplay himself and District 9 co-writer Sharlto Copley and Terri Thatchell, who played the role of Wikus in the film.
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Why it took ages to get a sequel to the sci-fi horror
District 9 was loved by the audience so much because not only did it play the part of sci-fi horror perfectly, but it made the watch socially aware as well. With racism on the rise once again and so many movements about social issues taking place worldwide, the film would do quite well if released in these times. The film stars, alongside Copley, Jason Cope (Doomsday, 2008), David James (Angus Buchan’s Ordinary People, 2012), William Allen Young (A Soldier’s Story, 1984), Vanessa Haywood (The Sweet Shop, 2010), Louis Minnaar (Phoenix Wilder and the Great Elephant Adventure, 2017), Nathalie Boltt (24 Hours to Live, 2017) and John Summer (King Kong, 2005).