{"id":48251,"date":"2013-08-21T10:12:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T09:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=48251"},"modified":"2013-08-21T10:12:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T09:12:48","slug":"neill-blomkamps-chappie-sets-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/neill-blomkamps-chappie-sets-release-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Neill Blomkamp&#8217;s Chappie sets release date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_48252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48252\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/elysium.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48252\" alt=\"Neill Blomkamp directs Sharlto Copley in Elysium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/elysium.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/elysium.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/elysium-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neill Blomkamp directs Sharlto Copley in Elysium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Sony have set a release date of 27 March 2015 for <em>Chappie<\/em>, Neill Blomkamp&#x2019;s follow-up to <em>Elysium<\/em>, about &#x201C;a robot imbued with artificial intelligence who is stolen by two local gangsters who want to use him for their own nefarious purposes.&#x201D;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thefilmstage.com\/news\/new-plot-details-on-neill-blomkamps-elysium-follow-up-chappie\/\">The Film Stage<\/a> reports that Blomkamp&#x2019;s regular star Sharlto Copley will voice the robot, while Die Antwoord&#x2019;s Ninja and Yolandi Visser will play the two gangsters. Dev Patel (<em>Slumdog Millionaire<\/em>, <em>The Newsroom<\/em>) is also in talks to play one of the slum&#x2019;s residents.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Elyisum<\/em> is released on 21 August. You can <a title=\"District 9\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/District-9-Blu-ray-Region-Free\/dp\/B002KCO1NS\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1377075539&sr=8-2&keywords=district+9&tag=scifinowmag-21\">buy <em>District 9<\/em> on Blu-ray for &#xA3;7 at Amazon.co.uk.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharlto Copley and Die Antwoord will star in Neill Blomkamp&#8217;s next sci-fi Chappie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":48252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[3038,755,3159],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/elysium.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}