This person is the kind of person that would keep wishing on a monkey paw. The rest of Niell Blomkamp's movies have been not great, and a sequel would probably be so bad to make the original worse.
Privately owned studios should all be run at a loss as a point of pride among the wealthy. "Oh, you're funding a popular film? For profit? How embarrassing for you."
I raise you the complete Marvel trash heap and several individual "sequels" made in the last 5 or so years. Neill Blomkamp has so many ideas, literally dozens of teasers are on YouTube. Most of them are seriously awesome. Do we really have to wait until all the geriatric Hollywood dinosaurs are dead? And with then their talentless and greedy "protégés"?
2&3 are good. they expanded the lore to be much more interesting, made agent smith a much more compelling character, threw away the stupid "chosen one" and "freedom fighter" cliches in favor of making the movies more about humanity's ability to choose rather than compliance and accepting inevitability, and had amazing scenes. i honestly don't know what people were expecting to see from those movies, but i bet every idea they would come up with instead would be stupid or redundant.
Yeah and I feel its problem was on the writing and directing. The concept was there but you just didn’t care about characters. They should’ve made the first half a romance, and then the second half about vengeance/redemption.
I feel like the "rich live in the sky, poor live on the wasted earth" was over the top. As opposed to S1 of Altered Carbon which was way better at addressing this trope. The meths were depraved, but you could kinda understand it --- they've been alive for so long, but want to continue to "feel alive" through ever more extreme experiences.
I ... actually kinda agree with you.
I get that 'if alien then sci-fi' is the norm for designating sci-fi (like, if it contains science fiction then it's sci-fi, regardless of the plots focus, the entire thing is classified by the setting).
But my head-canon also focuses on what the story is about.
If I could take out the sci-fi elements & the story wouldn't change (ie could be set in today's Earth), then I only see it as -fi. But also the story could be set on today's Earth but with one single smol sci-fi element (a piece of tech of sorts), and if the entire plot focuses on it, then I understand it as sci-fi.
The most controversial example of this (just in my head) wound be Star Wars. Much later in the extended universe things changed, but the movies started out as pure westerns, like, the same story could have been told as a western and especially the screenplay parts wouldn't have to change, just the backdrop (Im not being literal, but not far from it).
Space sci-fi in general has the tendency to use the dimensions in space like if everything was happening on Earth.
So I saw a blurb about this recently and it seems unfounded. Only 1 place was reporting anything and nowhere else online would corroborate it.
The last known news before that was the project is currently on hold for an unknown length of time. It may or may not get made. It's far from certain yet.
A sequel called District 10 has been written. About a year ago Neill Blomkamp said he’s unsure about making it now but believes it might be made in the future.
Didn't what's his butt say he'd never make a sequel? Or am I misconstruing memories on Terantino lying about how he was only going to ever make 7 movies (or what ever the number was exactly).
Idk why everyone like this movie the main character was a pos until the very last sec and did a good thing in the end which costs him nothing much, i mean that is not a bad thing as sometimes lead's being bad good be cool but the movie really want everyone to feel for him and like him fuck him, fuck that and fuck the movie .