Neil Blomkamp’s next movie project (it’s not “District 10”)

So you may remember this weird unexplained video from District 9 director Neil Blomkamp:

Apparently it does not have anything to do with his next project which is called Elysium. Per Deadline:

I’ve just learned that Neill Blomkamp is reteaming with his District 9 star Sharlto Copley on his second sci-fi feature Elysium. Copley played Wikus van de Merwe in District 9 as well as HM Murdock in this summer’s The A-Team reboot. Meanwhile, director Blomkamp and Media Rights Capital now need to choose a distributor. “Neil is taking meetings all over town. There is a lot of interest from every studio,” an insider tells me. I hear Blomkamp is including a graphic novel in his presentation. Elysium is Blomkamp’s long-awaited story set in the far future on another planet and, like District 9, is filled with many sociopolitical ideas wrapped up inside a Hollywood action film. So far no one else has been cast. “They have been working out budget and are now meeting with actor reps,” the insider tells me. Universal and MRC have a deal, but I hear this sweepstakes to distribute Elysium is wide open. Remember when Universal and Fox would have had to gamble on the then unknown filmmaker to make the videogame Halo into a big budget film but couldn’t get it together even though Blomkamp was to be backstopped by Peter Jackson and his WETA facilities? Morons!) Instead, Blomkamp and Jackson made District 9 which went on to gross $211M at the worldwide box office but the indieprod only had a negative cost of $30M.

That is one helluva ROI: $211M / $30M. Obviously Hollywood most interested in Elysium… and presumably — when he gets to it — whatever the creepy video above is about. As a reminder of what all the fuss was about re District 9, here’s a short behind-the-scenes video with some of the filmmakers involved in the process:

UPDATE: Matt Damon rumored to be interested in Elysium.