Technical Specs

• 2-Disc Set

Video Resolution/Codec

• 1080p/AVC MPEG-4

Aspect Ratio(s)

• 1.85:1

Audio Formats

• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Surround Sound

Subtitles/Captions

• English, French, Hindi

Supplements

• Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Wikus
• Innovation: Acting and Improvisation
• Conception and Design: Creating the World of District 9
• Alien Generation: Visual Effects

Exclusive HD Content

• Director's Commentary
• Joburg From Above: Satellite and Schematics of the World of District 9 - Interactive Map
• Koobus Big Gun
• The Alien Agenda: A Filmmaker's Log Three-Part Documentary
• The Alien Agenda: A Filmmaker's Log - Chapter 3: Refining District 9
• movieIQ
• cinechat
• BD-Live

District 9 (Blu-ray)

Sony / 2009 / 112 Minutes / Rated R
Street Date: December 22, 2009 (Pushed ahead from December 29.)
List Price: $39.95 (Buy it at Amazon and save)

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Genres: Science Fiction

Starring: David James, Jason Cope, Sharlto Copley
Director: Neill Blomkamp

Plot Synopsis:

Over twenty 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 from 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. MNU will receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens' powerful 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 MNU begins evicting the non-humans from District 9, with MNU field agents responsible for moving them to a new camp. One of the MNU field operatives, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), contracts an alien 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.