Neill Blomkamp
☼ Born on 17 December 1979, in Johannesburg, South Africa
BiographyNeill Blomkamp is a South African-Canadian film director and screenwriter who is known for the science fiction films District 9, Elysium and Chappie. He also directed the supernatural horror film Demonic and the 2007 short film Halo: Landfall, based on the Microsoft science fiction video game franchise. He had a child from his wife Terri Tatchell.
In the role of director
Demonic (26/08/2021)
A woman uses a virtual simulation to learn the horrifying truth about her murderous mother in Demonic. Carly (Carly Pope) is a woman who has repeated nightmares involving her mother Angela (Nathalie Boltt), who was imprisoned two decades earlier for murder. Carly is contacted by her estranged best friend Martin (Chris William Martin), who tells her […]
Chappie (08/03/2015)
From director Neill Blomkamp (District 9) comes this story about a police robot, which becomes a sentient being. To combat the high crime rate, the police force in Johannesburg has been replaced by artificially intelligent robotic scouts, who were designed by Deon Wilson (Dev Patel) for the weapons manufacturer Tetravaal. Tetravaal CEO Michelle Bradley (Sigourney […]
Elysium (10/08/2013)
Neill Blomkamp follows up his acclaimed debut film District 9 will the sci-fi/action film Elysium. The film takes place in the year 2154, at which time the Earth has become practically unliveable, due to pollution and overpopulation. In response to this, the Earth’s wealthy decided to leave the planet and relocate to the space station […]
District 9 (15/08/2009)
This film, which is a expansion of director Neill Blomkamp’s 2005 short film Alive in Joburg, was essentially consolation by producer Peter Jackson for the Halo film (which Blomkamp was supposed to direct) falling through. I think a lot has been said about how this is supposed to reference apartheid in South Africa, so I […]