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‘District 9′ Director Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Elysium’ Picked Up By Sony

Posted January 20th, 2011 by Dirk Van Tilborg

Sony has picked up ‘District 9’ director Neill Blomkamp’s big budgeted follow up ‘Elysium’.

Rumored to have a budget set at $120 million, ‘Elysium’ is a big step from Blomkamp’s $35 million, under-the-radar hit, ‘District 9’. The new film will star Matt Damon (‘Hereafter’, Bourne Identity’), Jodie Foster (‘Contact’, The Brave One’) and Sharlto Copley (‘District 9’, ‘The A-Team’) with futurist superstar Syd Mead (‘Blade Runner’, ‘Alien’, ‘Tron’) doing design work.

While the story details are under wraps, rumors put the story 100 years in the future possibly on another planet.

Pre-production is set to start in April with filming to take place in Vancouver and Mexico City beginning in July. A tentative release date is set for late 2012.

Dirk Van Tilborg

After reading Jack Kirby’s Forever People and New Gods comic books and watching 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dirk was assimilated during first grade recess into the collective known as Science Fiction. Fueled by the visions of mad scientists such as Philip K. Dick and Frank Herbert, he has quietly searched the galaxy for the next BladeRunner, Brazil and Dark City. Born in San Francisco and currently enjoying a steampunk version of Ft. Lauderdale, when not grokking Science Fiction he spends his time with family and friends and just maybe trying to enter the dreams of disingenuous politicians.