When District 9 director Neill Blomkamp makes his next film , he wo n’t have a $ 100 million budget . rather , he ’ll keep making films on the ( relative ) cheap , because it ’s the only room to make scientific discipline fiction movies with originative exemption .
In a recent interview with the L.A. Times , Blomkamp made it quite vindicated that he wants nothing to do with $ 100 million budget and major studio releases . The reason for this , he explains , is that he wants to be able to distinguish his own stories in his own style , and that just is n’t potential when such monumental amounts of money are involved . He cites this overwhelming want for studios to protect their investing as the main reason why almost all scientific discipline fiction celluloid are either adaption , sequels , or reboots .
Blomkamp ’s observations were n’t trammel to the purely financial . He also cut into into how these considerations move the originative side of science fiction movies :
I think about this a mint – a hell of a lot in reality – and how it plays out within the writing style of scifi and revulsion . This concept of “ Where does that fabrication [ in its seed material bod ] come from ? ” If you reckon at the most meaningful skill fable , it did n’t come from see other films . We seem to be in a place now where film maker make films based on other movie because that ’s where the stimuli and influence descend from . But go back and face at something like [ Joe Haldeman ’s 1974 novel ] “ The Forever War ” – that is very much rooted in his experience in Vietnam , that ’s where the stimulation comes from . And that ’s my end , really , is not to sop up from other films in terms of the overall intake and stimuli . you may in terms of design and tint and stuff , certainly , but not in terms of the idea and the genesis of that approximation .
In terms of his own future making movies , Blomkamp reflected on his process promoting District 9 as a template for what he hopes to attain next time . Since District 9 cost relatively little to make , it did n’t need to pull a particularly all-inclusive audience for it to be a financial winner ; the fact that it did become something of a minor mainstream hit was just a nice incentive . Blomkamp felt fairly comfortable that the film would do all right financially after it enjoyed such a positive reception at Comic Con . As long as his motion picture can keep finding an audience with genre fans , he feel confident he can keep making movies for the foreseeable time to come .
Blomkamp concluded the first part of the consultation with his thought on what he was trying to say in District 9 and whether he feels audience understood his message :
For the most part , “ District 9 ” is absolute Zea mays everta . It ’s absolute frippery compare to how serious those real - life sentence topics are . The theme in the film are on my mind all the time and they ’re very interesting to me . The bottom argumentation is “ District 9 ” bear on on 1 % of those theme in terms of how severe they could be portrayed , and I knew that when I made it . But the great unwashed get the messages . Xenophobia , racism allegories – they make all of it . I do n’t opine the flick was misunderstood . Not everybody loved it . Nigerians were n’t happy . They were make . And I suppose that ’s comely enough because I straight named them and they do n’t come off well in the film . But that was part of the whole satirical nature of the film . And that conflict , well , that ’s a South African thing .
The rest of the consultation will be published on the L.A. Times blog in the near future .
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