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This is an archive article published on July 10, 2013

Dev Patel in talks for Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie

Dev is close to landing the lead role in the sci-fi thriller,which is the follow-up to <i>Elysium</i>.

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Slumdog Millionaire actor Dev Patel is in talks to star in Canadian director Neill Blomkamp’s new sci-fi thriller Chappie.

Dev is close to landing the lead role in the sci-fi thriller,which will be the director’s follow-up to Matt Damon-starring blockbuster Elysium,said the Hollywood

Reporter.

Details about the new film are shrouded in secrecy,but it’s thought that the futuristic movie – which is based on a short film Blomkamp made in 2004,titled Tetra Vaal – will take place in the slums of South Africa,where robotic police officers patrol the area.

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Blomkamp wrote the script for the film and along with Terri Tatchell.

Dev is up for the role of an impoverished young man in the city while regular Blomkamp collaborator Sharlto Copley will play one of the police robots.

Elysium is set in 2154 and centres on the wealth divide between a ravaged planet Earth and a fictional utopian metropolis called Elysium,which is home to the wealthiest members of the human population.

Elysium is out next month.

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