To almost everybody except Peter Jackson, District 9 was a complete surprise when it landed in late summer of 2009, hovering over the box office like an extraterrestrial mothership. Neill Blomkamp’s feature debut, an adaptation of his 2006 short film Alive in Joburg, earned four Oscar nominations including Best Picture, helped galvanize a renaissance of original science fiction projects that also included Duncan Jones’ Moon and Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block, and immediately established Blomkamp as an important new voice in feature filmmaking. And then Elysium happened. And Chappie after that. Blomkamp is far from the first filmmaker …
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