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ChainsawAsh
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9-Sep-2010, 4:25 PM

TV's Frink said:

The same dude from District 9 was going to do Halo?  I don't know thing 1 about Halo but that would have been interesting.

Yep.  That's why District 9 was made.

Peter Jackson was producing, and he hired Blomkamp to direct.  They worked on it for a while, and then the Halo movie fell through.

Jackson felt bad that Blomkamp didn't get a chance to direct a big-budget movie, so he gave him $30 million to direct whatever he wanted.  He decided to remake his Alive in Joburg short as a feature, and District 9 was born.