District 9 is a 2009 science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp and produced by Peter Jackson. The film stars Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope and Robert Hobbs. Copley plays the role of Wikus van de Merw, a bureaucrat assigned to evict and move an alien species stranded on Earth from one government refugee camp to another in Johannesburg, South Africa . After being exposed to an alien substance that alters his DNA, Wikus must work with the aliens to help them escape the planet and save his own humanity.
The title and premise of the film are inspired by historical events that took place in District Six, an inner-city residential area in Cape Town in South Africa under apartheid. In 1966, District 6 was declared a "whites only" area by the apartheid government and for the next several decades, 60,000 people were forcibly removed and relocated to Cape Flats, 25 kilometres away.
Release date:
4. September [UK]
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