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I think they could play the whole thing off by having the prawns come back to revert him?

Oooooo... Ah... I'm tempted to say ... yes, please. I see you point, MM, but WHAT IF it's like Aliens? That would be nice, methinks.

You never go full prawn.

Wow, I can't believe there's not more objection. All right, I bow to the will of the people.

I absolutely would love more Sharlto, more Blomkamp, more prawns. I just don't want it to make me sad by insulting the original. There are already so many things that make me sad...

I'm pretty sure Copley would want to play his Prawn again, motion capture suit and all, if that's what he's suggesting. Or, considering Copley's VFX background, he might just want to be involved behind the camera again like he was on the original short. I'm not buying Copley as some kind of retconing diva.

Furthermore, Bloomkamp has stated that he's not just going to go willy nilly into another District whatever to cash in on the success of the first. He's a man with a vision and only he knows what he's going to do. Frankly, I'd be more willing to believe that he's a total control freak who wouldn't want a drastically increased budget because then he wouldn't have as much control over the finished product.

Of course he turned into a prawn, you see him right there at the end. There isn't a plot device they could use to make him human again that wouldn't be ridiculous.

Wikus totally turned prawn... And he just has to wait for Christopher Johnson to return with the "cure"....

Sadly, the director might be driven to provide "answers" for the annoying populace who insist that they have must them. The WHY's and HOW's and WHO's and all that...

Because God forbid you are left wondering... and possibly be forced to use your own brain to think of the answers.

Michael Myers survival in Star Wars? Oh, shit, I omitted the wrong movie in my hasty editing. Halloween, Halloween! I know what I'm talking about, honest I do.

I would like to see it, that Wikus was fully transformed. It was implied in the movie and makes the most sense. The Prawn said they could change him back so I don't see why not leave it that way. And maybe the transformation back takes at least as long if not longer, they could work with that.

On one hand I would like to see a sequel. On the other hand I see studio execs royally fucking it up.

I would like to see a sequel though.

Large scale. Christopher returns to see his prawns being massacred/contined experimentaion by humans (due to their continued out of control breeding, think Final Solution). New human tech and Prawns slug it out.

Small scale. Wikus is still alive and full prawn. He gets turned back to human and tries to convince humans aren't so bad. Christopher relents and sees kind side of humanity.

Humanity kills Christopher (kindness = weakness) takes over the mothership/battleship.

Ditrict Milky Way (part 3) Star Wars without Midicholrians. PEW PEW PEW

i did not love the first, but it did hold an interesting self-enclosed story.

when i hear cry sequel, i only hear producers craving money like some adolescent pubis rubbing urge.

one could tell a story of a war, which would be a big budget affair with ray guns and ships and bug eyed aliens.

one could tell a prequel, which is what the trailer promised us, but we are beyond that.

but a sequel would be a forgettable action flic that just happened to take place in south affreekah. i,e, you might as well throw worthington into it, at last he could handle the accents.

anything someone might have loved(as they do, lord knows what) will be lost in a sequel. it will pull in big box office, securing 67% of its total in the first weekend, with big gains in the international market and the inevitable dvd/bluray market. so yay, studio money available, which every so often trickles down into interesting films.

following trade news is boring.

lucy's comment has brought me back to say:

I too loved the sad weird ending. Leave Wikus alone!! {faint cry, trailing off...}

BUT - I'd rather see Copley in District 2: Prawns Boogaloo than see him lowering himself in The A-Team.

No good can come of this.

The sweetie man cometh.

I approve.

I fail to see how this could do anything but persuade a lab rat studio executive to hit the lever again.

Quite right, Che. In my distress, I wasn't thinking clearly.

Maybe I missed something, but I thought that it was implied that the Prawns were possibly a slave race to some other unknown 3rd party of aliens that for whatever reason abandoned them and left them to die.

Having their "benefactors" come back looking for some sort of super-weapon or item they left behind or on the ship would be a plausible story that wouldn't have to suck. The Prawns and Humans would band together to repell the invaders and share technology in the process. Christopher could come back at a crucial moment with tons of healthy pissed-off Prawns and a bunch of human-to-prawn reversal juice and save the day at the climax of the conflict.

The only way I can see this being successful no matter what the plot, is if they keep the budget low or spend more money but maintain the "low-fi" feel of the first one.

There was nothing implied about the ending. He WAS fully transformed, at the end of the film, he was sitting right there with a metal flower like he had given to his wife...who else would it have been? Why else would they have showed that?

What wasn't clear was why the ship stopped when and where it did. Well, it seemed like they ran out of gas...which seems kind of a wierd thing to happen. Made me curious about the aliens and the whole story about the species and what they were up to. I mean, running out of gas: bad plot device, dumb, unprepared aliens ("we're fine, we can fill up at the next constellation"), or something not crucial to the immediate story, it was just important to the main story that they were there (imo the answer). But it's a little detail worth investigating for future stories. And what happened with the "slaves", etc., and why Christopher and his buddy never revealed themselves to be more than who they obviously were and why they never really communicated with the humans for help (so, they just wanted to get out of there, they had other missions, or they were going to attach Earth but something went wrong etc...which I doubt, didn't seem like Earth had much use to them [no easily obtainable food?]). To me, they were clearly at least Science officer types, or engineers or something. It would make a cool story that they were both less than captain but officers of some type suddenly thrust into a scary situation they needed to get out of (ship stops, how to survive, not reveal who exactly they were to the humans, were they good or bad, etc., etc.,

Ultimately though, any sequel in my imagination will likely be better than any film that ends up getting made. I'm sure they'll mess it up. But I'll watch like everyone else. Depressing.

I hope there is a sequel but only if Blomkamp can be assured that it will be even better than D-9 in quality of story and music score. If he is able to maintain control in that way then any sequel/prequel will be great. I definitely think it's possible and we won't have to be disappointed.

I most certainly approve of a District 9 sequel. Just as long as Hollywood doesn’t mess it up and put in some things that completely ruin the plot of the movie so many people love. So all in all, I’d say GO FOR IT. ☺