District 9: Exclusive San Diego Comic-Con Experience

IGN ventures into District 9 and gives the fans a chance to face Producer Peter Jackson and Director Neill Blomkamp.

Exclusive San Diego Comic-Con Experience Female: Well, what do you hope that people take away when they see District 9 like what do you hope the reaction to be? Peter Jackson: Well, I mean what I hope is very simple. I just hope people are entertained change. It’s nothing wrong in that really. I just regard film making as a form of entertaining people that’s why I go to the movies. And I go to movies to escape real life. I love movies that take you away from your mundane sort of existence and you’ve set for that two or three hours. You sit and you just experience transforming adventure where you see things you never have seen before and you’re taken to worlds that you’ve never gone out experienced in real life. And so I love doing films at that sort of transporting effect. And I have that District 9 o show this people something that they have never imagined before that they get exited about and saying something fresh and original and importantly that the story and the characters have a motion. And they come a way thinking that wasn’t a bad movie. Male: What was your favorite part of the movie? Sharlto Copley: I have to say the fact that I could improvise was just awesome for me, that I could do that throughout the film. And if I had to choose moments, it was actually doing the scenes while I go out to engage with the aliens where we are evicting them in the beginning. That was the most kind of fun for me because we were just able to shoot off a whole bunch of them and just totally messed around with how we were getting them evicted. Female: You produce, you direct and then you act, what is your favorite thing to do? Sharlto Copley: I wouldn’t say that this is like a favorite but I would say the acting is the easier one. Everybody is just like trying to look of to you the whole time and it’s the most stress-free for me. It’s a question of arriving on sets and especially with this movie where I wasn’t able like learning lines just like your wife, all the character. Male: As a director, what’s your responsibility and what do you do with the film? Neill Blomkamp: Well, as a director, you’re pretty much in charge of everything, and you’re going to be in charge of stuff in a day-to-day level that obviously the process of shooting the film, the process of conceiving the film and then the process of editing and doing visual effects. But more importantly really than the day-to-day decisions it gave me the whole time is trying to keep a mental picture of the film, the overall film in your head for the whole process that you’re making it. Female: Okay. You’re known for doing short films, how is it—and did you want like a full length film especially one that' can be as big as District 9? Neill Blomkamp: Overall, I was not prepared for how difficult it is to make future films. And especially this future film which is I have lot of improved shot in—in Johannesburg which was a difficult area to shoot in and a lot of visual effects with not a lot of money. So, it was both an extremely creative film because it’s a lower budget, a lot of creative stuff. The concept was really creative but it was extremely grueling.