Elysium

Elysium (2013)

Timing: 1:49 (109 min)

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Release date

2013-08-07

Country

United States

Production

Genre Films, MRC, TriStar Pictures, Alpha Core, QED International

Genre

Science Fiction, Action, Drama, Thriller

Budget

$115 000 000

Revenue

$286 140 700

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Director

Neill Blomkamp

Actors

Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Diego Luna, Wagner Moura, Alice Braga, William Fichtner, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Faran Tahir, Maxwell Perry Cotton
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Scenario

Neill Blomkamp

Producer

Simon Kinberg, Bill Block, Neill Blomkamp, Sue Baden-Powell

Operator

Trent Opaloch

Composer

Ryan Amon

Artist

Catherine Ircha, Luis Antonio Ordoñez

Audition

Francine Maisler, Candice Elzinga, Alejandro Reza

Editing

Lee Smith, Julian Clarke
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• The film was primarily shot in two locations: Mexico City, which depicted Los Angeles in 2154 (the same year the events of "Avatar" take place), and Vancouver, which served as Elysium.
• It took 8 months of research to create the HULC suit, and before the final design was approved, it underwent 75 revisions.
• According to the film's director, the first candidate for the lead role was rapper Ninja, a member of the South African group Die Antwoord. However, after lengthy negotiations, the rapper declined the offer. He explained his decision by saying that his big-screen debut should not be in a film aimed at a mass audience. After Ninja's refusal, the director made the same offer to Eminem. The latter agreed to participate in the filming, but stipulated one mandatory condition – the film must be shot in his hometown of Detroit, which the director could not agree to. Ultimately, the lead role in the film went to actor Matt Damon.
• Neill Blomkamp based the ideas of an ideal world existing separately from the ruined Earth on real sources: “In the 1970s, people seriously discussed the idea of building space stations and leaving Earth if necessary. One of the best solutions to this issue was the Stanford Torus project. I liked the idea of combining this well-known concept with big money, diamonds, and mansions in the Bel Air style. The very concept – placing all these absurd, luxurious homes on a space station in the shape of a donut – amused me greatly and ultimately became the idea that I wanted to make a film about.”
• In ancient Greek mythology, Elysium means the abode of blessed souls.
• A well-known Italian fashion designer and owner of his own fashion house, Giorgio Armani, collaborated with costume designer April Ferry on the creation of the costumes.
• Filming began on July 25, 2011.
• Before starting to write the script, Neill Blomkamp drew a short comic showing the world of "Elysium" in broad strokes.
• Syd Mead, a designer who worked on "Blade Runner" (1982), "Tron" (1982), and "Aliens" (1986), built several Elysium sets and helped the artists with illustrations.
• Notably, in the film, representatives of the lower class, the Earthlings, primarily communicate with each other in Spanish. Residents of Elysium, meanwhile, mostly speak French.
• The space station is rebooted using code taken directly from the Intel Architecture Software Developer’s Manual Volume 3: System Development.
• The Bugatti-branded Elysium shuttle has the distinctive features of a Bugatti Veyron.
• In the film, set in 2154, the characters of Diego Luna and Matt Damon get into a modified Nissan GT-R, which in reality has been in production since 2007.
• Max uses a Kalashnikov rifle and special shotgun cartridges with the inscription in Russian '12 gauge E-fitil'.
• The film was shot primarily in two locations: Mexico City, which depicted Los Angeles in 2154 (the same year in which the events of "Avatar" take place), and Vancouver, which represented Elysium.