So, I’m in Los Angeles right now and throughout the city are these funky looking benches at bus stops. They look like advisories of some sort. What caught my eye was the huge tagline that says Bus Bench for Humans Only. Haha – sounds odd right— I love the ads!!!!! If you go to the website provided you learn that it’s an ad for a movie called District 9 by Peter Jackson. Release Date: August 14.
Official Website
Here’s the first poster .
Here’s the BLOG by a Non-Human equal rights advocate.
Website for Multi-National United
Educational Website for the MNU
Excerpt from Yahoo Movies
“Thirty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa’s District 9 as the world’s nations argued over what to do with them.
Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens’ welfare — they will receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens’ awesome weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA.
The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when an MNU field operative, Wikus van der Merwe, contracts a mysterious virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable — he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place left for him to hide: District 9. ”
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