District 9 Teaser Trailer!

Some may recall a couple of years back Peter Jackson was going to produce a feature film version of the mega selling videogame 'Halo'. The director he had lined up was a little known South African helmer called Neil Blomkamp. Well 'Halo' fell through but undertered Jackson decided to produce an original Sci Fi film with Blomkamp as director called 'District 9'...What we have here is the rather fantastic first teaser for the film.

The film depicts a fictional world where extraterrestrials have become refugees in South Africa. Wikus (Sharlto Copley) is a Multi-National United agent who becomes infected by alien biotechnology. He must go on the run from the oppressive government into District 9, a internment camp where “non-humans” have been forced to live since landing on Earth nearly 30 years ago.

The pseudo documentary style took me by surprise and then some truly striking images hit the screen. This feels like a really fresh piece of sci fi and I think this trailer will have a similar wow factor impact as the one for 'Cloverfield' in 2007 I feel.

'District 9' opens Augut 9th and you can check the trailer below.