District 10: Neill Blomkamp is finally working on a District 9 sequel

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Fans of director Neill Blomkamp's film District 9 (watch it HERE) have been waiting for a sequel ever since 2009, and Blomkamp has repeatedly said there would be a sequel. Someday. "Someday" was pretty far off, because now we're twelve years out from District 9 and there still isn't a sequel. Thankfully, Blomkamp took to his Twitter account last night to inform his followers that he is finally working on the District 10 script with Sharlto Copley and Terri Tatchell.

Scripted by Blomkamp and Tatchell, District 9 starred Copley and began in 

an alternate 1982, when an alien spaceship appears over Johannesburg, South Africa. When a population of sick and malnourished insectoid aliens is discovered on the ship, the South African government confines them to an internment camp called District 9. Twenty years later, during the government's relocation of the aliens to another camp, one of the confined aliens named Christopher Johnson, who is about to try to escape from Earth with his son and return home, crosses paths with a bureaucrat leading the relocation named Wikus van der Merwe.

Blomkamp and Tatchell received an Oscar nomination for their script, and District 9 was also nominated for Best Editing, Best Visual Effects, and Best Picture.

During a Reddit AMA session in 2017, Blomkamp said the sequel was taking a while because 

the exact right REASON to make District 10 needs be very clear. The first film was based so explicitly on real themes and topics from South Africa that affected me greatly growing up there, that we need to make sure the next film does not forget that."

Before we get District 10, we'll be seeing a supernatural horror movie that Blomkamp shot in secret during the pandemic. It has also been said that he'll be going into production on a horror-thriller called Inferno sometime this year.