District 9 Trailer

Yesterday we showed you a picture from the set of District 9, the film by South African Neill Blomkamp about aliens living in slum like conditions in South Africa.  Coinciding with the trailer playing in front of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Apple also got a copy of the trailer.  I've just put it on my iPod.

After seeing the trailer when I saw Wolverine, it officially trumps and Terminator: Salvation and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as the movie I'm looking forward to the most this summer.  Just from the trailer it's easy to see a distinct visual aesthetic that relies on a realistic documentary style of shooting and not the Paul Greengrass/MTV hyper-real-non-documentary style of the Bourne movies.  Also I love the fact this looks to be a serious science fiction film.

Who knows, if District 9 is a hit, it might put the Halo film back on the track.  I'm certainly looking forward to District 9 when it hits theaters August 14, 2009.