New ‘District 9′ Promotional Trailer
A new promotional trailer for District 9 has been released that includes all new footage.
The trailer is a kind of mashup between behind-the-scenes interviews and film footage that together provide a very concise synopsis of the story.
I should warn you that it is also quite spoilerific in that it gives a certain amount of the film plot away. Whilst it has definitely heightened my anticipation to see the film, you should choose to watch it only if you don’t mind knowing some of the film’s surprises in advance.
District 9 follows events post the arrival of a million ‘Prawns’, aliens that find themselves marooned in a spacecraft above the skies of Johannesburg, South Africa. The story takes place 28 years after their arrival at a time when humans and aliens have been forcd to coexist in a violent, poverty stricken town-like camp referred to as District 9. Sharlto Copley plays a corporate bureacrat who heads into the camp to forcibly relocate the aliens but things go wrong and Copley’s character is forced to forge an uneasy alliance them.
The film was premiered at the San Diego Comic-Con and has since received recognition as one of the top sci-fi films to emerge in a long time and a leading candidate for sci-fi film of the year.
Read more about the film and watch the original short film that District 9 is based upon here.
Watch the full length International District 9 Trailer here.
Play the District 9 free online game here.
District 9 will hit theaters:
14 August 2009 – USA
13 August 2009 – Australia
August 4th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
this movie is going to be totally awesome. Counting the days until its release here in Australia. And a BIG thank you to Darren and the rest of the team for maintaining the best scifi/fantasy news site on the net!!