“Neill Blomkamp Would Love to Return for a District 9 Sequel”

From our friend Alex Billington at FirstShowing.net, the love-fest for District 9 continues unabated:

It’s pretty much inevitable that we’ll see a sequel to District 9. The film made an impressive $37.3 million over the weekend, not only surpassing expectations, but making more than its entire budget (not including marketing costs). And the story also sets up a sequel perfectly (we won’t say how until later on to prevent spoilers) in the end. But like with J.J. Abrams

and Cloverfield, will Peter Jackson put a hold on it until they come up with a story that’s satisfactory? Well, Neill Blomkamp already seems quite excited to go back, as he recently told EW: “I would do anything to go back to the world of District 9 again. Or District 10.”

That’s not all though, as Fangoria (via SlashFilm) talked with Blomkamp and got even more out of him:

“I’d love to make a sequel, because it’s so creatively rewarding to me; there’s just something about [the story],” he told Fangoria. “It’s my background mixed with the science fiction that I loved. I’d really like to go back to the world of DISTRICT 9 — which, without Sharlto’s character, would be a very different kind of movie. So I think automatically the two of us will be reunited again, should the public decide that this film is something they want to see and it’s successful.”

For those who haven’t seen the movie, I will not offer anything further by way of explanation re “Sharlto’s character.” 

It’s funny. Walking up to the movie theater to see District 9 on Saturday with my son Will, I specifically said to him, “Let’s hope they don’t decide to go all cheezy and do District 10: The Sequel.” I was referring, of course, to some of the horrible sequels that have come out recently [cough — Ice Age 3 — cough]. But after seeing District 9…

There better damn well be a sequel!

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