DISTRICT 9 D9 TARGET COMIC CON US THEATER 12X17" POSTER

ITEM

YOUR BID IS PER 1 RARE ORIGINAL US "DISTRICT 9"

TARGET

12"X 17" POSTER

OBTAINED

MOSTLY AT COMIC CON 2009 AND SOME MOVIE THEATRE PROMOTIONAL DISTRIBUTION - THE POSTER WAS NOT AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC

CONDITION

MINT NEW UNUSED

ORIGINAL PRICE

NONE

District 9 is based on Alive in Joburg (video), a short film directed by Neill Blomkamp, Sharlto Copley, Simon Hansen and Shanon Worley. The title is influenced by the real-life District 6 in Cape Town. Copley also portrayed one of the interviewed policemen. The short film is about aliens landing in South Africa and becoming confined to a specific area and forced to work.

In the movie, aliens made first contact with Earth twenty-eight years prior to the beginning of the film, after which humanity waited for either a hostile attack or for giant advances in technology, though neither came. Instead, the aliens that arrived were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the world's nations argued over what to do with them. Patience over the alien situation ran out and control over them was contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare. MNU stands to receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens' advanced weaponry work.

MNU, thus far, has failed in making the alien weaponry work, for activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA. Tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when an MNU field operative, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), through playing around with an alien device, contracts a mysterious virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable, for he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Van der Merwe becomes ostracized and friendless and comes to hide in District 9.

The fictional District 9 is located in what is actually Katlehong, a township in Johannesburg, South Africa.

ITEM NOTES

YOUR BID IS PER 1 POSTER.

.# DUE TO THE TIME SENSITIVE NATURE OF THE PRODUCT - CONTACT WITH THE WINNING BIDDER IS EXPECTED WITHIN 1 HOUR OF THE CLOSE OF THE AUCTION. 

• # POSTERS ARE IN HAND - AND WILL BE SHIPPED VIA USPS MAIL OR FEDEX AFTER THE PAYMENT IN A HARD TUBE - UNLESS DIFFERENT FORM OF MAIL IS REQUESTED.