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District 9 was written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, directed by Neill Blomkamp, produced by Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, and stars Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, and David James. It's based on the short film, Alive in Joburg. It's a partially-presented found-footage film.
In 1982, a huge UFO invades air space and hovers over the South-African city of Johannesburg. When nothing happens, an investigation team flys up and cuts open the ship and finds over a million malnourished bug-like aliens inside. In turn, the South-African government relocates them to a camp called District 9, where the environs are squalid at best. It becomes a slum, and the aliens end up being called prawns, a derogatory term.
No love lost between the prawns and the locals, the government hires Multinational United (MNU), who relocates them to a camp outside the city. Piet Smit, a MNU exec,' appoints his son-in-law, Wikus van de Merwe--an MNU employee--to serve the aliens eviction notices, and the shit hits the fan, the prawns attacking with brute force and alien technology. In the process, Wikus find a hidden container with unearthly fuel that sprays his face and makes his arm alien and insect-like. Now MNU can use him to fire the alien weapons that won't let humans operate them.
All hell on earth breaks loose.
It's important to note that this film was based on the real-life events of Cape Town's District 6, during the apartheid era.
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