With Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 making such an impressive show for a virtual unknown (all we really knew was that he was a good effects artist and Peter Jackson thought he was good) I kind of expected this guy to blow up into the next big name churning out movie after movie.
But it seems a year and a half later we are only getting news about his next project starting up, that is still waiting for final financial backing. So far we have a title, Elysium, and District 9 star Sharto Copley attached. And now perhaps Matt Damon?
Actor Matt Damon is in early talks for a role in Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi thriller Elysium, according to Deadline.
Neill Blomkamp will direct from his own script. Although little is known about the plot, Elysium is said to be set on a distant planet in the future and will feature the same type of social commentary found in Blomkamp’s District 9.
Its hard to say whether I would want to see Matt Damon in a film like this when I don’t know what a “film like this” is going to be.
It could be very military and Avatar-ish with humans in the future on distant planets. It could be completely off the wall alien comedy. We don’t know for sure.
