It’s spoilery so I read it with only one eye. I suggest you do the same. “District 9″ comes out this week and I’m pumped people. It looks Sci-Fi fresh. “District 9″ tells the story of Aliens from the planet of the insect people that pick the wrong solar system to run out of gas in. It stars Sharlto Copley as a kind of U.N. representative in charge of relocating the aliens from the shanty town camp they are put in to a more country setting.
Here’s a few choice quotes from the interview with the fellas at Aintitcool.
Capone: One of the things that have bugged me about the way films portray alien races–and I think there’s even a little bit of it in the footage we saw from AVATAR yesterday–that all of the aliens look exactly the same, but yours have different colorings, subtle variations in their features–beyond the little bits of clothing they might be wearing.
NB: And they paint shit on themselves, too
Capone: That’s what I thought. There are visual cues that make it very clear that, like humans, two don’t look the same, and you have differentiated them to a degree. I love that.
NB: That’s cool. I’m glad you noticed that, yeah. We spent quite a lot of time doing that. I always looked at them like Magpies, like they would get interested in something and then they would collect whatever it was or sometimes they would put it on themselves. Like Paul, which is the human given name to him, the character who is the friend of the lead alien, the yellow waspy guy, he’s got spark plugs that are screwed into his shell, if you look at him and into his head, so it’s like he just has an interest in those. And it’s kind of funny if you think of them on that animalistic level, then a lot of creative ideas can kind of come out of that.
District 9 will be theatres this Friday. I will be there.
