{"id":52687,"date":"2013-04-10T13:53:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T11:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=52687"},"modified":"2013-04-10T13:56:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T11:56:59","slug":"elysium-trailer-released-for-sa-born-directors-next-sci-fi-epic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/52687-elysium-trailer-released-for-sa-born-directors-next-sci-fi-epic","title":{"rendered":"Elysium trailer released for SA-born director&#8217;s next sci-fi epic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first trailer for South African director Neil Bloemkamp\u2019s Elysium has been released, and it looks to be a perfect blend of Halo-like sci-fi settings and District 9\u2019s grittiness.<\/p>\n<p>Elysium is set in the year 2159, where the wealthy have moved to a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, leaving the rest of humanity on a derelict and devastated Earth in the background, with all the poverty and crime in tow.<\/p>\n<p>The people on Earth need the medical care on Elysium, and one man, Max (Matt Damon), takes on the dangerous task of infiltrating Elysium to not only save himself, but the rest of Earth as well.<\/p>\n<p>The film also stars \u00a0Jodie Foster,\u00a0Sharlto Copley,\u00a0Wagner Moura,\u00a0Carly Pope\u00a0and\u00a0Alice Braga, and will hit theatres on 9 August 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the trailer below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oIBtePb-dGY\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More movie news:<\/h3>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/51624-resident-evil-6-movie-on-the-way.html\">Resident Evil 6 movie on the way<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/50244-hitman-movie-reboot-gets-leading-man.html\">Hitman movie reboot gets leading man<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/50026-warcraft-movie-gets-new-director-production-schedule.html\">WarCraft movie gets new director, production schedule<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/47967-god-of-war-movie-taking-a-bold-direction.html\">God of War movie taking a \u201cbold direction\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Which video game movies will survive Hollywood?\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/38439-which-video-game-movies-will-survive-hollywood.html\" target=\"_blank\">Which video game movies will survive Hollywood?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>District 9 director Neil Bloemkamp\u2019s next sci-fi flick gets a scene-setting trailer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":52688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,9532,9534,9535,279,9533,9536],"class_list":["post-52687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-elysium","tag-elysium-movie","tag-matt-damon","tag-movie","tag-movie-news","tag-neil-bloemkamp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52689,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52687\/revisions\/52689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}