Thirty
years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the
hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came.
Instead, the aliens 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.
Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the
aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a
private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare -- they will
receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens' awesome
weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation of the weaponry
requires alien DNA.
The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when an
MNU field operative, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), 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 -- he is
the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Ostracized and
friendless, there is only one place left for him to hide: District 9.
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