Director Neill Blomkamp's first feature film, District 9, was a vision of Johannesburg beset with alien-filled slums. It was science fiction that felt plausible — the aliens had to deal with xenophobia and bureaucracy, and their weapons and ships looked dirty and rundown. For his follow-up Elysium, Blomkamp looked to build a similarly deep and realistic sci-fi setting, only this time based in Los Angeles. "My largest personal goal making this film was to try and frame a vision of the future for the audience, and to do that with a world that felt as real and multi-layered as possible," he writes in the foreword for Elysium: The Art of the Film . "The only way that can be accomplished is with a shitload of conceptual design and visual...
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