We have already told you that the South African filmmaker Neil Blomkamp (“District 9”, “Robot named Chappy”, “Elizium: Paradise not on Earth”) is busy creating several short films, post scheduled in the gaming service Steam. Until the last moment Blomkamp wasn’t sure whether to take from the audience money for viewing their new work, but in the end he decided to distribute them free of charge. But to monetize short films planned by the sale of a variety of additional content to them. Yes, now we are witnessing the emergence of a completely new concept “DLC in cinema.” But really not so scary.
The first film from the first collection of stories Neill Blomkamp was given the name Rakka. 20-minute short film tells the story of how the reptilians have taken over the Earth and now terraforming the planet, changing the atmospheric composition. The invaders are using humans as their slaves, because lizard-aliens in addition to everything else, and telepaths, and also hold them over terrible experiments. The units of resistance are struggling to find in defense of the aliens weaknesses. And one of the commanders in the film is familiar to us actress Sigourney weaver. You can watch the film below.
So what kind of DLC is it? Blomkamp plans to sell Steam to the various assets for his films. For example, 3D models of the aliens, technology, special effects, three-dimensional stage scenery and much, much more. The first set of content dedicated to the film Rakka, already freely available and costs $ 4.99. The acquisition of such bonuses will be very helpful to the crew to implement new ideas on the screen and share them with the audience. “Purchases” does not affect the quality of the films. Of them nothing will be cut, as it is now fashionable to do with AAA video games. So fans of the Director have nothing to worry about.
#video | Directed by Neil Blomkamp gives his new film absolutely free
Sergey Grey