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An eerie tale of a close encounter of the third kind in Johannesburg. | add synopsis
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Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Planning “The Next District 9″ From Uruguyan Hot Shot Federico Alvarez
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Fascinating short film.
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Dawie Ackermann | ... | Afrikaans Professor |
| Jason Cope | ... | UN Official / Alien |
 | Sharlto Copley | ... | Sniper |
| Braam Greyling | ... | Cop 1 |
| Godfrey Seome | ... | Cop 2 |
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We don't want to be here, this place doesn't want us... we have nothing, nothing.
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Remade as District 9 (2009)
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It is easy to see Neill Blomkamp's directorial skills in this short film, which runs kind of like a news broadcast documentary that gives a peek into the frightening situation in a South African town after some not so pleasant aliens have set up permanent residence there. It is a kind of journalistically objective look at how the lives of the local townspeople have been altered, mostly for the worse, by the arrival of the aliens. Visually, it is a stunningly effective film, especially with the mother ships floating just over the skyline, and the film is packed with one unsettling image after another. Having been signed on by Peter Jackson to film the highly anticipated screen adaptation of the wildly popular video game Halo, it is easy to see from this film why he was chosen despite having almost no directing experience at all to take on what will surely be a hugely popular film.