Neill Blomkamp to Direct Taylor Kitsch in Sci-Fi ‘Inferno’

“District 9” director Neill Blomkamp is ready to direct Taylor Kitsch in a sci-fi thriller known as “Inferno” for what shall be his first function movie since 2015’s “Chappie.”

The information was introduced Thursday by chairman and CEO of AGC Studios Stuart Ford, whose firm is financing “Inferno,” and manufacturing is anticipated to start on the movie in early 2020.

Like “District 9,” “Elysium” and “Chappie” earlier than it, Blomkamp’s “Inferno” is an unique story that examines the uneasy steadiness between people and alien life all inside a gritty and reasonable motion movie style.

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According to the studio, Kitsch will play a cop who is named to research a seemingly atypical homicide within the New Mexico desert. The arrival of the FBI confirms his suspicions that one thing a lot greater — maybe even extra-terrestrial — is at play. The hunt for the killer quickly places him face-to-face with a humanoid beast who will cease at nothing to exterminate the one witness to the crime. As the hunt turns into private with the kidnapping of his spouse, the whole lot he is aware of in regards to the universe shall be challenged, and our connection to different life forces within the universe shall be revealed.

“I am very excited to be getting behind the camera and making ‘Inferno’ with AGC. The film is filled with themes and concepts that I find deeply fascinating, I feel lucky to be shooting it,” Blomkamp mentioned in a press release.

“Over the last decade Neill Blomkamp has proven himself to be one of the most innovative creators of science fiction cinema in the world and I’m convinced that ‘Inferno’ is going to break new ground and take Neill’s body of work to even greater heights,” Ford added.

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Blomkamp’s first function “District 9” that imagined aliens touchdown on Earth by way of the lens of apartheid in South Africa and located alien immigrants residing in slums and experiencing racism. The movie was made on a $30 million finances and grossed $211 million worldwide earlier than incomes 4 Oscar nominations. The success of the movie catapulted him to make “Elysium” starring Matt Damon and “Chappie” with Dev Patel. “Inferno” is simply his fourth function and his first since 2015.

Blomkamp was beforehand meant to shoot “Robocop Returns” at MGM, however he introduced on Twitter in August that he was not engaged on the venture. Blomkamp is represented by ICM.

Kitsch will subsequent be seen in “21 Bridges” with Chadwick Boseman. He’s represented by CAA and Untitled Entertainment.

CAA Media Finance brokered the take care of AGC and can co-represent home and Chinese rights for the movie.