Chappie - videos, teasers and stills from filming
All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "Chappie"
Chappie (2015)
Timing:
2:0 (120 min)
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What's left behind the scenes
- The South African rap-rave group Die Antwoord, whose members are fans of Neil Blomkamp's work, appeared in the film. Ninja even has a "D 9" tattoo on the inside of his lip in honor of his film "District 9" (2009).
- Neil Blomkamp was inspired to create the rabbit-ear antenna by Briareos – a character from Musamune Shirow's manga "Appleseed", which Blomkamp is a fan of.
- Filming began in late October 2013 in Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa, and wrapped in February 2014.
- The film is based on Neill Blomkamp's short film "Tetra Vaal" (2004).
- At the end of the film, Chappie connects to the server 162.244.164.51 to create his mother. In reality, this is the address of the server of the hosting company SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. (IBM), which positions itself as the largest cloud network infrastructure in the world.
- The film depicts a hypothetical technology for uploading consciousness. However, an error is made: a helmet reading human brain neural activity would not be able to read Chappie's brain activity.
- Neil Blomkamp was inspired by Briareus – a character from Masamune Shirow's manga 'Appleseed', which Blomkamp is a fan of – when creating the antenna shaped like a rabbit's ear.
- The building used for filming Brandon Ore's character's lair is the house where director and screenwriter Neil Blomkamp lived as a child.
- “Chappie” was originally intended to be the first part of a trilogy, but the film flopped at the box office, and the idea of sequels was abandoned.
- Ninja and Yolandi Visser oversaw the construction of their house for the film, and they themselves painted the walls and developed original decorating ideas.
- Neill Blomkamp and his wife, Terri Tatchell, wrote the screenplay in two weeks while Blomkamp was filming the science fiction action film "Elysium" (2013).
- The film featured the South African rap-rave group Die Antwoord, whose members are fans of Neill Blomkamp's work. Ninja even has a "D 9" tattoo on the inside of his lip in honor of his film "District 9" (2009).
- Neill Blomkamp was inspired to create the antenna in the form of a rabbit ear by Briareus – a character from Masamune Shirow’s manga “Appleseed,” which Blomkamp is a fan of.
- Neill Blomkamp and his wife Terri Tatchell wrote the screenplay in two weeks while Blomkamp was filming the science fiction action film "Elysium" (2013).
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