DISTRICT 9 trailer hints to be the next CLOVERFIELD

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

Most definitely taking a cue from Cloverfield, producer Peter Jackson and his new protage Neil Blomkamp (the guy who he trusted to direct Halo as his directorial debut before the studio cut their financing, many believe because of that decision) have cooked up this sci-fi movie District 9 which has slowly been gathering an audience through viral marketing and teasing over the past 12 months. Attached today to prints of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, is a teaser trailer for the Sony Pictures film which has the intriuging concept that aliens live among us and have become refugees in South Africa. They live in District 9, a camp where "non-humans" have lived for thirty years since the first alien landed on Earth.

The film is shot in a documentary style, to give it that sense of realism, and scope, and I guess post-modernism that Cloverfield and Diary of the Dead carried. That shot of that massive ship just looks insane and I like the blurry alien, just giving us as much as what we need. The movie opens August 14th and Sept. 4th in the U.K. source - first showing