South African filmmaker Neil Blomkamp recently confirmed on Twitter he’s writing a sequel to his 2009 science-fiction film District 9, says GeekTyrant. He’s developing the script along with the Canadian screenwriter Terri Tatchell (who worked on District 9 and Chappie) and actor Sharlto Copley (who appeared in pretty much every Blomkamp movie to date). The title of the sequel is, somewhat humorously, District 10. For the time being, there are no details regarding the sequel’s story, although Blomkamp did confirm earlier he’s been sitting on an 18-page treatment for District 10 for at least eight years now.
Blomkamp entered the movie business as a special effects artist in the late 1990s. In his spare time, he began directing shorts. The one that first drew attention from audiences and filmmakers like Peter Jackson was Alive in Joburg, a gritty, fake documentary about extraterrestrials marooned in the sky above Johannesburg. In 2009, Blomkamp expanded this short into a feature film titled District 9 – a biting satire about xenophobia, racism, and class differences in South Africa, through a lens of aliens living in shantytowns around major cities. Over the 11 years, Blomkamp kept returning to his mix of social satire and science fiction in movies like Chappie and Elysium. He’s currently finishing his latest film – a supernatural horror movie titled Demonic.
