District 9, the trailer
District 9 opens this week. It’s getting great buzz and reviews. The above District 9 trailer can be found, like all of your movie trailers, on Wimgo.com.
Here’s The Oklahoman’s George Lang’s review. More from Lang at his StaticBlog.
After reading more about this movie, I discovered it’s based on “Alive in Joburg.” Here’s more from newteevee.tv:
But if you still aren’t sure if it’s for you, skip watching the trailer — instead, check out the 2005 short film it’s based on: Alive in Joburg, directed by District 9 helmer Neill Blomkamp (who also directed Tempbot, and was going to direct the now-on-hold Halo feature film). Alive is District 9 writ small, a documentary-style look at what would have happened if, in 1990, Johannesburg, South Africa’s apartheid system was complicated by the arrival of some truly illegal aliens.
See the six minute documentary below, from Google Video.
