Jun 4, 2008
Blomkamp’s “Alive in Joburg”
Director & 3D animator Neill Blomkamp was attached to directing the adapatation of the videogame Halo in 2007, but the project unfortunately appears to be canned. I say unfortunately because a short film like the one below called Alive in Joburg convincingly implies that Blomkamp was well suited to the task.
The 2005 short film depicts aftermath of aliens running out of energy and landing on Earth; becoming stranded beggars. Using a documentary narrative he raises an eerie sense of realism emphasized by likeness to apartheid in South Africa.
Discovered in Tim’s transition post from Kuipercliff to Ubiwar.
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Tim Stevens
I wondered what had happened to the film. As you say, Blomkamp was ideal, as far as I can tell. I actually met Jason Jones last year (in Egypt, of all places) but he didn’t seem to know much about the movie production side of Halo at all.
I guess we’ll just have to satisfy ourselves with the occasional Blomkamp Nike or Citroen commercials…
Jun 4th, 2008
Hrafn
Cool that you met Jason Jones. I played around for hours in my early teens modding Bungie’s Marathon. Good times.
Jun 4th, 2008
Tim Stevens
Yeah, he was a good guy, very chilled. Interested in archaeology, as I recall.
Jun 4th, 2008
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