The first trailer for Chappie is here – the next movie from District 9 and Elysium director Neill Blomkamp. Prepare yourself for the most loveable robot since Wall-E, starring Hugh Jackman, Dev Patel, Sigourney Weaver and South African rap-rave duo Die Antwood (Yo-Landi Visser, Ninja). It’s the story of an intelligent robot child who is gifted and special and whose life will change the way the world looks at robots and humans forever. Meredith Woener of IGN described the movie as “very heartstring-pulling, musical-swelling, robot-eccentric film.”
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This science fiction spectacle is chocker block full of emotion. It’s a coming of age tale, with a robot instead of a child. And Chappie is raised just like a child, forming a bond with his carers that is like nothing we have ever seen on screen before. Chappie is told “anything you wanna do in your life you can do – write poetry, have original ideas…” (which in this instance include watching Masters of the Universe cartoons, acting very “cool and tough” and stroking dogs). Problem is, people are always fearful of things they don’t understand.
Hugh Jackman plays the evil villain Vincent, a raging anti-robot fanatic who is hell-bent on turning Chappie into scrap metal. “The problem with Artificial Intelligence is it’s way too unpredictable,” Jackman says in the trailer.
“I am conscious. I am alive. I am Chappie.”
The movie is scheduled for release on March 6, 2015, by Columbia Pictures.
