- BFI identifier757634
- Date2009 (Copyright)
- Production countryNew Zealand, USA, South Africa
- Production company
- SynopsisScience fiction. Refugee aliens living in slum conditions on Earth in an enclosed area in South Africa known as District 9, begin to fight back. When his DNA mutates after a strange virus, Wikus van de Merwe finds himself being hunted down as this change means he can access the superior technology of alien weaponry. The only place he can hide out is District 9. (Synopsis)
- Work historyBased on Neill Blomkamp's 2005 short 'Alive in Joburg' (qv).
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- CategoryFiction
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- CastSharlto Copley (Wikus van de Merwe)
Jason Cope (Grey Bradnam, UKNR chief correspondent)
David James (Koobus Venter)
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