DISTRICT 9 - Cast and Crew
Hi friends in this article let us discuss about the cast and crew involved in of the best Science Fiction movie of this year,"District 9".We have already discussed about the basic information about the movie and to read that article about the general information, click here.
Crew Information
i)This film was directed by Neill Blomkamp and he is the famous South African documentary director and this is his debut film.He has done a great job in this movie and especially he has succeeded in making all the scenes so natural, which is essentially for these kind of science fiction movies.
ii)Peter Jackson is the producer for this film and this film was distributed by TriStar Pictures.
iii)Neill Blomkamp has already done a short film and this District 9 film is based on this short novel which was released in 2005.So along with Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell also wrote the story for this film.
iv)The music for this film is composed by Clinton Shorter and he done his work extremely well.
v)Another important feature in this film is the Cinematography and it was extremely wonderful.The cinematography for this movie is done by Trent Opaloch.
vi)Julian Clarke has done the editing work for this movie.
vii)This film involves lots of sets and it includes WingNut Films, QED International, Key Creatives and Wintergreen Productions, and the scenes took in these studios are extremely natural and pleasant to watch.
viii)This film was released in bot English and Xhosa languages.The Xhosa language is one of the official language of South Africa and more that 80 lakhs people speak this language which constitute 18% population of South Africa.
ix)This film was released officially on
#)August 13, 2009 in New Zealand and Australia
#)August 14, 2009 in United States and Canada
#)August 28, 2009 in South Africa
#)September 4, 2009 in United Kingdom
#)October 8, 2009 in Netherlands
x)This film runs for around 2 hours and to be precise 8 minutes short of two hours
xi)The budget for this movie is about 140 crores
xii)The film has done extremely well at the box office and the revenue for this film is about 854 crores till date.
Cast Information
i)Sharlto Copley as Wikus van de Merwe and he is the officer in the MNU.He was also assigned the chief for the operation of evacuating all the Aliens from the District 9.His character is very important because, with this character the director explains the friendship between a human and the alien.
Shalto gets infected during the transportation operation of the aliens from the District 9 and slowly he starts to transform into an alien.Sharlto also done a small role in Neill Blomkamp's short film "Alive in Jborg".Apart from being a director Sharlto is also Producer and a Director.
Sharlto is the main character of this film and he is the one who travels throughout the film.A the beginning of the film, for first half an hour, the film looks like a documentary as he was being followed by a cameraman all the time but late in the film his character was highlighted.
ii)The next character is very interesting as he has contributed in multiple ways for this filmm and he is Jason Cope.His role behind the screen includes the narrator of the movie, as the character Grey Bradnam.He has also done another important character that we couldn't recognize, i.e as the alien ,Chistopher Johnson.
This Christopher Johnson is very important because this character along with Shalto explains the bond between human and alien.This character also shows that aliens are also so kind to human if they are shown love and affection and if they are also believed by the humans.
But many of us doesn't knew about who did this character, because of the Computer Graphics done in this film and for the creation of this alien character, Christopher Johnson,they used a similar process which was used in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy's,important character called "Gollum",which was played by Andy Serkis.
Apart from these character, Cope also performed the majority of the background voice in this film,that includes the voice of police, pilot and other background voices in addition to the voice of the cameraman Trent.Apart from these major characters other characters includes
i)David James as Colonel Koobus Venter and he is a very cruel man who works very arrogantly.He also doesn't show any mercy to the aliens and he always tasted their death.Later in the movie he also tries to kill Wikus van de Merwe as he was infected and transforming into a alien.Even at the start of the movie when the opeartion was about to start he begins to quarrel with Wikus van de Merwe and this scene clearly explains the character of Colonel Koobus Venter.The character of Colonel Koobus Venter is shown inthe image below(David james is on Left side of the image)
ii)Eugene Khumbanyiwa as Obesandjo, a Nigerian warlord and he along with his gang exchange goods to the aliens and also get the highly sophisticated weapons from them which also includes mechanized battle suit. After watching Wikus transforming into an alien, and knowing the power, he tries to capture Wikus.He also eats the Aliens flesh thinking that he will be transformed into an alien and get the power.
iii)Vanessa Haywood as Tania van de Merwe, Wikus' wife and she is a very good wife. She is the only one who believes Wikus, when he was slowly transforming into an Alien,as she calls him, but this call was traced by the MNU for tracing the location of Wikus.
iv)Mandla Gaduka as Fundiswa Mhlanga, Wikus' assistant during the eviction and he is very much loyal to Wikus and he also likes Wikus and he also take care of Wikus when he was injured during the evacuation operation.
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