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By Chen Nan and Xu Junqian (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-11-28 10:52
District 9
District 9, a low-budget sci-fi action thriller which depicts aliens as unwanted immigrants in downtown Johannesburg, opens here this weekend.
The movie, which cost less than $30 million, has already grossed over $184 million worldwide. It begins with a series of documentary-style interviews in South Africa 20 years in the future as the aliens, dubbed "Shrimps", are effectively evicted from the planet.
Directed and co-written by South Africa's Neil Blomkamp, the movie was produced by Peter Jackson, the man behind The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Jackson also edited the Chinese version of Blomkamp's masterpiece.
The cast includes South African rising star Sharlto Copley, who plays a bureaucrat leading the aliens from a Johannesburg slum, called District 9, where they settle after their ship gets stranded there. In English.
