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Elysium

August 2021

  • Neill Blomkamp: ‘I’m not gonna work on a film for two years and have the rug pulled out from underneath me and then go hang out and have beers.’

    Neill Blomkamp: ‘It’s possible Ridley Scott watched Chappie and was like: this guy can’t do Alien’

    The Oscar-nominated writer-director of District 9 talks why his Alien film fell apart and why he went back to basics for his new movie

November 2015

  • Daniel Craig<br>Estrella (Stephanie Sigman) and Bond (Daniel Craig) in the crowds of El Dia de los Muertos procession in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Columbia Pictures/EON Productions’ action adventure SPECTRE. Tolsa Square, Mexico City.

    Guardian Mexico City week
    Licence to shoot: the Spectre location manager's guide to Mexico City

    From the recent Bond outing that closed the downtown core for 10 days, to starring roles in Elysium (as a dystopian ‘Earth’) and Original Sin (as a nostalgic ‘Cuba’), the Mexican capital is a film star in its own right

March 2015

  • Unhappy Chappie

    US box office: Chappie comes alive as Unfinished Business falls short

  • Digital future ... Dev Patel in Chappie

    Chappie review – robot boy grows up to become angry robot teen

February 2015

  • Elysium (2013)

    Elysium was not a good enough film, says director

    Neill Blomkamp has said that the script let down his 2013 movie starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster

January 2015

  • Neill Blomkamp

    Neill Blomkamp reveals concept art for 'abandoned' Alien project

    District 9 and Elysium director posts images on Instagram depicting early artwork for an apparently abandoned Alien sequel

September 2013

  • Film blog
    Why Elysium's moral message is destined to miss its mark

    David Cox: Neill Blomkamp's sci-fi adventure has a lot to tell us about poverty and privilege – but are we ready to listen?

August 2013

  • Lone Ranger

    Hollywood apocalypse not now despite summer flops and directors' strops

  • Box office analysis: UK
    Otherworldly Elysium blazes to top of UK box office chart

  • Matt Damon in Neill Blomkamp's Elysium

    The Guardian Film Show
    The Guardian Film Show: Elysium, What Maisie Knew and Lovelace

  • Composite image for the Guardian Film Show, 23 August 2013

    The Guardian film show
    The Guardian Film Show: Elysium, What Maisie Knew and Lovelace – video reviews

  • Elysium – review

  • Film talk
    Elysium director Neill Blomkamp: 'It's about the third world trying to get into the first' - video interview

  • Elysium director Neill Blomkamp: 'You'd have to change the human genome to stop wealth discrepancy'

  • Box office analysis: US
    Elysium on high at the US box office

  • Matt Damon: where did it all go right for the leftwing activist, devoted dad and intelligent action star?

April 2013

  • Elysium

    Week in geek
    Elysium trailer: can Neill Blomkamp stay in District 9?

    His last film mixed social commentary with fantasy but can Elysium, director Blomkamp's new sci-fi epic, retain the grit?

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