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Watch Neill Blomkamp’s New Short Film ‘Zygote,’ Starring Dakota Fanning
Watch Neill Blomkamp’s New Short Film ‘Zygote,’ Starring Dakota Fanning
Watch Neill Blomkamp’s New Short Film ‘Zygote,’ Starring Dakota Fanning
Neill Blomkamp’s Oats Studios is taking a kind of diet approach to filmmaking: testing out concepts that could be cool by making short films out of them with bonkers-high production value. The first one, Rakka, introduced us to an Earth almost completely overtaken by some fabulously gross aliens, and a few days ago we got Sharlto Copley as a very cranky God. Today, Oats Studios has rolled out Zygote, which sees Dakota Fanning and Pablo Cantillo on the run from a truly terrifying monster.
God Gets Cranky in Neill Blomkamp’s Latest Oats Studio Short ‘God: Serengeti’
God Gets Cranky in Neill Blomkamp’s Latest Oats Studio Short ‘God: Serengeti’
God Gets Cranky in Neill Blomkamp’s Latest Oats Studio Short ‘God: Serengeti’
Despite the runaway success of Neill Blomkamp’s District 9, the writer-director has faced increasingly diminishing returns as a filmmaker ever since. Whiz-bang visuals and an impressive cast weren’t enough to save Elysium, while Chappie has become better known in film circles as an internet meme (“That’s Chappie!”) than a film worth seeking out. Add in Blomkamp’s failed attempt at an Alien sequel and it seemed the director’s star had fully faded… that is, until Blomkamp announced his decision to create a serious of outrageous and expensive short films at zero cost to the public.