Alive in Joberg: District 9
When the feature adaptation of HALO did not get greenlit (the budget was purported to be over $200M), Peter Jackson (who was to have produced and/or directed) kept the same creative team, rather than disband them after all their hard work, and the video below is a test for the style of the movie that is to come: District 9.
To give you an idea of how popular the HALO game is, the trilogy has sold over 25 million copies, and when the third one was released, it grossed over $170M in 24 hours.
District 9 is not HALO, nor is it just about immigrant aliens, as in the sci-fi category. It's a "proof of concept," and it will blow your mind away. I bet the studios are kicking themselves in the ass...they could have had HALO ready for this summer...if it could look even remotely like this amazing fake documentary - it would have certainly been badass.
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