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Podcast: Verbal Diorama
Episode: District 9
Description: It's not every first time director who hits it out of the park with their first feature, especially one based on an original idea, with an unknown cast.Luckily (or rather unluckily for Halo), an existing project that had brought them together had crumbled, and so a partnership began between powerhouse producer Peter Jackson, fresh off his The Lord of the Rings trilogy and newcomer Neill Blomkamp.Based on Blomkamp's 6-minute short film Alive in Joburg, District 9 takes South Africa's recent history and translates it into a science fiction satire, asking the simple question of "...