Sigourney Weaver Joins Neill Blomkamp's CHAPPIE

Sigourney Weaver Joins Neill Blomkamp's CHAPPIE

The Alien icon has signed on to star alongside Hugh Jackman and Blomkamp regular Sharlto Copley in the Elysium director's next science fiction flick, Chappie. Read on for more details..

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By MarkCassidy - Oct 29, 2013 08:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: THR



According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sigourney Weaver will join Hugh Jackman in Neill Blomkamp's currently shooting sci-fi movie, in which Sharlto Copley will play the title role of Chappie. The District 9 actor will play (via motion capture) a law enforcement robot who is stolen and reprogrammed by a couple of gangsters played by Ninja and Yolandi Visser of Die Antwoord. The Newsroom's Dev Patel will also star. THR don't reval what role Weaver will play, but they do provide an official logline for the movie: "After being kidnapped by two criminals during birth, Chappie becomes the adopted son in a strange and dysfunctional family. Chappie is preternaturally gifted, one of a kind, a prodigy. He also happens to be a robot." Chappie is a partnership between Sony Pictures and Media Rights Capital, and is based on Blomkamp's short film Tetra Vaal, which you can see below.

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SimyJo
SimyJo - 10/29/2013, 9:00 AM
I remember watching Tetra Vaal short waaay back when it first came out. Interesting he wants to make it into a film now. Not sure it has the scope but hard to say without seeing a screenplay or synopsis.
philiam
philiam - 10/29/2013, 9:15 AM
After Elyisium I feel like he's a one trick pony. It was the same story with a different coat of paint (a weaker coat if anything). Hopefully this movie will be different enough, but keeps Blumpkin's signature aesthetics. And I hope Chappie is less black and white with its story, and more morally gray like D9.
philiam
philiam - 10/29/2013, 9:16 AM
But having Die Antwoord in this movie...idk. They're too eccentric, even for a sci-fi film. Maybe I'll be wrong and they'll be the best part.
Effusion
Effusion - 10/29/2013, 9:25 AM
The story sounds interesting.
VictorHugo
VictorHugo - 10/29/2013, 9:30 AM
More poorism to hurt my eyes, no, i´ll pass.

Lazy people don´t want to build alien planets or future cities. :P
ABH1979
ABH1979 - 10/29/2013, 10:13 AM
I'm definitely interested, but hopefully this will be more like D9 and less like Elysium. At it's core, I feel like Elysium could have been a fantastic movie, but it got "Hollywood-ified". I hope Blomkamp learned some lessons, there...
thewonderer
thewonderer - 10/29/2013, 10:50 AM
Elysium was great. Don't get the haters
DrManhattan0
DrManhattan0 - 10/29/2013, 10:54 AM
I do like Neil's work,Elysium was a step down from District 9,and who does not appreciate Sigourney Weaver the queen of science fiction,from Aliens to Avatar.
chewish
chewish - 10/29/2013, 11:32 AM
Sigourney Weaver: Queen of Sci-fi (Aliens, Avatar, Ghostbusters, The Cabin In The Woods
Zoe Saldana: Princess of Sci-fi (Star Trek, Avatar, Guardians of the Galaxy)
Mrsinister
Mrsinister - 10/29/2013, 11:54 AM
Holy crap! Die antwood is gonna be in this movie!
RexDartEskimoSpy
RexDartEskimoSpy - 10/29/2013, 12:04 PM
Afrikaans hip-hop. There's something I never imagined would feature in a sci-fi flick. Of course I didn't even know such a thing existed five minutes ago.
VictorHugo
VictorHugo - 10/29/2013, 12:10 PM
Sigourney Weaver, she was awesome in Galaxy Quest too!
Invictor
Invictor - 10/29/2013, 12:24 PM
@beto

Plot Twist!
AlexRival
AlexRival - 10/29/2013, 12:27 PM
Sharlto Copley AND Die Antwoord? I am SO IN
AlexRival
AlexRival - 10/29/2013, 12:29 PM
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