District 9 is a 2009 science fiction action film directed by Neill Blomkamp, written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, and produced by Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham. It is a co-production of New Zealand, the United States and South Africa. The film stars Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, and David James, and was adapted from Blomkamp’s 2006 short film Alive in Joburg.
- Starring : Sharlto Copley / Jason Cope
- Genre : Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
- Country : South Africa / United States / New Zealand / Canada
- Language : English / Nyanja / Afrikaans / Zulu / Xhosa / Southern Sotho
- Director : Neill Blomkamp
- Production : TriStar Pictures / Block / Hanson / WingNut Films / Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC) / Covert Media / Department of Trade and Industry of South Africa / District 9 / Key Creatives / Majority Entertainment / New Zealand Post Digital and Visual Effects Grant / Province of British Columbia Production Services Tax Credit / QED International
- Distributor : ACME / Audio Visual Entertainment / B&H Film Distribution / Blitz / Blue Sky Media / Cathay-Keris Films / Columbia TriStar Warner Filmes de Portugal / Distribuye Movie / FS Film / Filmcompagniet / GAGA / ITI Cinema / InterComFilm / Medyavizyon / Metropolitan Filmexport / Palace Pictures / Presidio / QED International / Seret / Shanghai xilechangsheng Co. / Sony Pictures España / Sony Pictures Filmverleih / Sony Pictures Releasing Australia / Sony Pictures Releasing Canada / Sony Pictures Releasing International / Sony Pictures Releasing / Svensk Filmindustri (SF) / TriStar Pictures / Viva International Pictures / Walt Disney Studios Sony Pictures Releasing (WDSSPR) / Warner Bros. / Mokép / Music Television (MTV) / Nelonen / RTL Entertainment / Seven 7 / Metropolitan Filmexport / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / The CW Network (The CW) / Warner Home Video
District 9 movie
District 9 release date
- August 13, 2009 : Australia
- August 13, 2009 : Singapore
- August 14, 2009 : Canada
- August 14, 2009 : USA
- August 26, 2009 : Philippines
- August 28, 2009 : Sweden
- September 4, 2009 : UK
- September 4, 2009 : Ireland
- September 5, 2009 : France (Deauville American Film Festival)
- September 10, 2009 : Switzerland (German speaking region)
- September 10, 2009 : Germany
- September 10, 2009 : Spain (Catalonia)
- September 11, 2009 : Spain
- September 11, 2009 : India
- September 12, 2009 : France (L’Étrange Festival)
- September 16, 2009 : Switzerland (French speaking region)
- September 16, 2009 : France
- September 17, 2009 : United Arab Emirates
- September 25, 2009 : Switzerland (Italian speaking region)
- October 22, 2009 : Israel
- February 27, 2010 : Japan (Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival)
- April 10, 2010 : Japan
District 9 cast
- Sharlto Copley as Wikus Van De Merwe
- Jason Cope as Grey Bradnam – UKNR Chief Correspondent / Christopher Johnson
- Nathalie Boltt as Sarah Livingstone – Sociologist
- Sylvaine Strike as Dr Katrina McKenzie
- Elizabeth Mkandawie as Interviewee
- John Sumner as Les Feldman – MIL Engineer
- William Allen Young as Dirk Michaels
- Greg Melvill-Smith as Interviewer
- Nick Blake as Francois Moraneu – CIV Engineer Team
- Morena Busa Sesatsa as Interviewee
- Themba Nkosi as Interviewee
- Mzwandile Nqoba as Interviewee
- Barry Strydom as Interviewee
- Jed Brophy as James Hope – Police Officer
- Louis Minnaar as Piet Smit
The film is partially presented in a found footage format by featuring fictional interviews, news footage, and video from surveillance cameras. The story, which explores themes of humanity, xenophobia and social segregation, begins in an alternate 1982, when an alien spaceship appears over Johannesburg, South Africa. When a population of sick and malnourished insectoid aliens are discovered on the ship, the South African government confines them to an internment camp called District 9.
Twenty years later, during the government’s relocation of the aliens to another camp, one of the confined aliens named Christopher Johnson, who is about to try to escape from Earth with his son and return home, crosses paths with a bureaucrat leading the relocation named Wikus van der Merwe. The title and premise of District 9 were inspired by events in Cape Town’s District Six, during the apartheid era.
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