Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Elysium’ Has a Villain, and a Release Date

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Posted by MrDisgusting on March 09, 2011 @ 9:26pm
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Our good friends over at Latino Review broke the news that Wagner Moura, best known to film audiences for playing Colonel Nascimento in the kickass Brazilian films Elite Squad 1 and 2, has booked a villain role in District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium.

Moura will join Sharlto Copley, Matt Damon, and Jodie Foster in the sci fi film which shoots this summer. Sony will release on March 8, 2013.

They also report that the sci fi film is set 100 years in the future and according to Blomkamp “is set on another planet, but it’s cool. It’s violent, very violent, and very unique hopefully.”
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‘Blade Runner’ Designer Signed on for ‘Elysium’, Sony Wins

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Posted by MrDisgusting on January 20, 2011 @ 12:24am
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Update: Sony Pictures Entertainment has won the right to distribute. It’s nice to be wanted in Hollywood. District 9 director Neill Blomkamp has spent his day pitching Elysium to all of the studios, sans Disney, reports Deadline who also scored some plot details. They’re told this the movie has the social allegory present in the Sony Pictures Entertainment-directed District 9, but it’s an unabashedly big movie, set 100 years in the future, with all of the obligatory gadgets and technological advances. Media Rights is finning the futuristic science fiction flick that will star Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley. Even cooler, Blomkamp will have his sets designed by Syd Mead, famous for his work on films like Blade Runner! Mead’s very hard to hire, but he responded because he so liked District 9. The film will prep in April, and start production in July in Vancouver before moving to Mexico City in the fall.
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Jodie Foster Joins Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Elysium’!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on January 03, 2011 @ 7:54pm
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Though it hasn’t yet been shopped to studios by Media Rights Capital, Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 followup Elysium is continuing to add big names. Deadline reports that Blomkamp’s just gotten Jodie Foster (Silence of the Lambs) to commit and join Matt Damon (Contagion) and District 9‘s Sharlto Copley to the sci-fi film he wrote and will direct as his next project. Simon Kinberg is producing. The plot continues to be kept under wraps. Still no word on if this is connected to Blomkamp’s creepy viral.
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Matt Damon Booking Trip to Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Elysium’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on December 10, 2010 @ 5:52pm
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Matt Damon is in early negotiations to star in Neill Blomkamp’s scifi film Elysium for Media Rights Capital. Damon will join District 9‘s Sharlto Copley in a film that is shrouded in secrecy. Elysium is Blomkamp’s long-awaited story set in the far future on another planet and, like District 9, is filled with many sociopolitical ideas wrapped up inside a Hollywood action film. No other details have been revealed, although there is an interesting viral video that may, or may not be related.
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‘District 9′ Director Shopping ‘Elysium’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on December 06, 2010 @ 7:02pm
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A few weeks back District 9 director Neill Blomkamp unloaded the impressive “AGM Heartland” viral video that took the Web by storm (watch it below). Deadline is reporting that he’s now reteaming with his D9 star Sharlto Copley on his second sci-fi feature Elysium, a film we’re not sure is connected to the aforementioned video. Meanwhile, director Blomkamp and Media Rights Capital now need to choose a distributor. “Neil is taking meetings all over town. There is a lot of interest from every studio,” an insider tells Deadline who adds that Blomkamp is including a graphic novel in his presentation. Elysium is Blomkamp’s long-awaited story set in the far future on another planet and, like District 9, is filled with many sociopolitical ideas wrapped up inside a Hollywood action film. So far no one else has been cast.
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