New District 9 Trailer: Reveals Alien’s Intentions and Face
Jackson explains the backstory behind what we’re seeing in the trailer, to answer at least a few questions. “These aliens arrived 20 years ago in a dead, derelict mothership, which hovers above Johannesburg. It’s enormous, like the size of 10 football fields. The aliens have ended up in a Soweto-style township beneath the ship. It’s clear that they’re not really integrating into society. They like to scavenge things, rip up train tracks. So the authorities shift them 200 miles away, into the African belt. They’ve built a concentration camp.” And of course, that’s when things get crazy. “The resident’s of Joburg want them gone.”

