While at an event for The Beaver, the folks at Collider got in a couple of questions to Jodie Foster who will be starring in Neill Blomkamp’s second feature film, Elysium. The story for this one is very much under wraps and is an original piece by the District 9 helmer that’s due out in 2012 with Matt Damon, Sharlto Copley and William Fichtner starring as well. Little has been revealed about the film other than it’s a science fiction film set on another world that will explore socio-political issues in the “wrappings of a Hollywood movie” according to Blomkamp. Foster hasn’t had too much to say overall about it, and she doesn’t add all that much here, but the enthusiasm is certainly apparent.
Question: The L.A. Times quoted you this week as saying that you would be playing “the head of an alien planet” in Neill Blomkamp’s next film, Elysium. Would you say that’s an accurate description of the role?
JODIE FOSTER: Yes. I hope I’m allowed to say that. I think I’m allowed to say that. That’s pretty vague.
Is there anything else you can say about the film?
FOSTER: Those sci-fi movies are all really hush-hush. I don’t even own a screenplay. They won’t even give me a screenplay. I’ve read it, but they won’t give me one to physically keep in my home ‘cause they’re so worried about everybody.
What was it about that project that appealed to you and made you want to get involved? Did you just want to work with Neill Blomkamp?
FOSTER: Yes, definitely. He did District 9, which I think is as close to a perfect movie as you can get. It’s just an extraordinary film. And, this film has a lot of that social commentary in it, but uses sci-fi to get there. It’s great.
