First Look at Matt Damon in Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Elysium’
After his stunning directorial debut with District 9, Neill Blomkamp is looking to stay firmly in the realm of science fiction with his follow up, Elysium. The movie will be set in the year 2159 where two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth.
The first footage is set to premiere at Comic-Con next week but for now, we now have the first official look at Matt Damon (via EW‘s latest issue) wielding a humongous rifle. While it’s unclear what that’s all about, we do know he stars as Max, one of the unlucky Earthling who agrees to take on a dangerous mission that could bring equality to these polarized worlds.
Elysium opens on March 1st, 2013 and also stars Jodi Foster, Sharlto Copley, William Fichtner and Diego Luna.
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I like the look of this movie. I’ve seen a few other photos but nothing quite so cool as this! Is that a rail gun? Sweet!
Thanks for the photo.
Yes, a rail gun! Like in Quake! (No one knows what I’m talking about naturally)
…oh, I do. MONSTER K-K-K-KILLLLLLL
Ahah I miss those games… Quake 1, 2 & 3 as well as Unreal Tournament. And if I got tired of fragging people, I could rave up Ages of Empire or Civilization II ahah. Those were the days
Wow, Matt Damon looks badass. Awesome!
After District 9 I’m really looking forward to this. It sounds interesting and I’m sure Blomkamp will put his unique spin on proceedings.
So is this anything to do with the District 9 universe!!
No word on that yet. I would guess it has little or even nothing to do with it.
Damn, that is badass.
I’m so looking forward to this – mainly because Sharlto Copely is awesome and so is Neill Blomkamp.
Hopefully, Sharlto makes an appearance as Wikus and get to say something about the “prawns”
Woah, he looks pretty bad ass!
So you are saying I should go bald and carry a rail gun everywhere… Then I will look badass too?
Matt Damon with a rail gun. What’s not to love?
He has no Taliban beard
If it doesn’t have Wikus I’m not interested.
Yeah, you sneaky fookin’ prawns, heh?
Can’t friggin’ wait for this movie! So is Damon the lead actor now instead of Copley? I haven’t seen ANY pic of him yet. Like Packerken said, I’d love to see Wikus in this somehow, though I’ve been hearing this isn’t a sequel to D-9 but a similar sci-fi story.
Yea I would guess this is a distinct universe from District 9, from the synopsis. Time will tell
Sounds awesome! Hope the footage from Comic-Con hits the net soon!
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