Neill Blomkamp's Gran Turismo movie, which is based on the true story of a teenaged fan who becomes a professional race car driver, has been confirmed for a 2023 release.
The potential of District 10 might not be a distant memory after all.
Neill Blomkamp secretly filmed an entire supernatural horror movie during the COVID-19 pandemic.
To almost everybody except Peter Jackson, District 9 was a complete surprise when it landed in late summer of 2009, hovering over the box office like an extraterrestrial mothership. Neill Blomkamp’s feature debut, an adaptation of his 2006 short film Alive in Joburg, earned four Oscar nominations including Best Picture, helped galvanize a renaissance of original science fiction projects that also included Duncan Jones’ Moon and Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block, and immediately established Blomkamp as an important new voice in feature filmmaking. And then Elysium happened. And Chappie after that. Blomkamp is far from the first filmmaker …
Neill Blomkamp was working on an Alien sequel. The canceled Alien 5 would have retconned the story and returned to the main heroes of 1986's Aliens.
21 Bridges actor Taylor Kitsch will be starring in director Neill Blomkamp’s latest sci-fi thriller Inferno. The film, about a cop in New Mexico who investigates a seemingly-ordinary murder only to discover that the perpetrator is an alien monster, is slated to begin production sometime early next year. Blomkamp made a huge splash with his debut film District 9 back in 2009, but received a much less enthusiastic response to his subsequent movies Elysium and Chappie. The director has been attached to a number of projects in the past few years, including reboots/sequels of two beloved …
Neill Blomkamp (District 9) hasn't made a film since 2015's Chappie, but it's not for a lack of trying. We explain the director's four unmade films.
In July 2018, we reported that District 9 and Chappie director Neill Blomkamp was set to helm a RoboCop reboot tentatively titled RoboCop Returns. Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner, were on board to produce and executive-produce, respectively, while writer Justin Rhodes was retooling a sequel script that Neumeier and Miner wrote decades ago that never came to fruition. At the time, Blomkamp told Deadline: “The original definitely had a massive effect on me as a kid. I loved it then and it remains a classic in the end of 20th Century sci-fi catalog, with real meaning under the …
Neill Blomkamp reveals he's no longer directing the sequel RoboCop Returns and is developing an original horror-thriller project, instead.
The guy tackling RoboCop Returns has addressed the character selling fried chicken.
Electronic Arts and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Neill Blomkamp's (District 9, Elysium, Chappie) collaboration on Conviction: An Anthem Story is now available for you to watch, ahead of the game's launch tomorrow. The original live-action short-film based on BioWare’s Anthem brings the vast world of the expansive game to life with his own story set decades before the beginning of the game. This live-action short invites viewers to experience Blomkamp’s unique style of creating photorealistic visual effects and bringing them seamlessly into the real world, this time with EA’s highly-anticipated new game. …
Electronic Arts and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium, Chappie), have announced that they have collaborated on Conviction, an original live-action short-film based on BioWare’s Anthem. In Conviction, Blomkamp brings the vast world of Anthem to life with his own story set decades before the beginning of the game. This live-action short invites viewers to experience Blomkamp’s unique style of creating photorealistic visual effects and bringing them seamlessly into the real world, this time with EA’s highly-anticipated new game. The full short will go live tomorrow, February 14th on the Oats …