As always, we are a curious sort. When it was learned that DISTRICT 9 was an extension of director Neill Blomkamp‘s earlier short film ALIVE IN JOBURG(2005), that curiosity went through the roof, narrowly missing Ceiling Cat, and into the stratosphere. Of course it had to be found and watched.

The primary elements and themes of D9 are there in AIJ. All Blomkamp needed to do was flesh out the story. Luckily the HALO movie fell through. As we hear it, the 10th member of The Fellowship, Peter Jackson was nice enough to offer $30 million to Blomkamp to do his own movie. With friends/creative contemporaries like those, one could take over the world.

(via google video)