Elysium is a 2013 American science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp. It is set in a future where Earth is overpopulated and polluted, while the wealthy live aboard a space station called Elysium. In the year 2154, Elysium's defense secretary uses mercenaries to prevent immigrants from reaching Elysium to access medical technology that can cure diseases. An accident leaves ex-con Max radiation-poisoned, and he seeks a way to reach Elysium's advanced medical facilities before he dies. He undergoes modifications to infiltrate Elysium and access a program that can change citizenship designations.
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Elysium (film)
Elysium
Technical
Street Address
• Neill Blomkamp
Production
Bill Block
Neill Blomkamp
Simon Kinberg
Guion
Neill Blomkamp
Music
Ryan Amon
Photography
Trent Opaloch
Mounting
Julian Clarke
Lee Smith
Protagonists
Matt Damon
Jodie Foster
Sharlto Copley
Alice Braga
Diego Luna
Wagner Moura
William Fichtner
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Facts and Figures
Country (ies)
USA
Year
2013
Premiere August 9th
Gender
Science fiction
Action
Duration 109 minutes
Language (s)
English
Spanish
Companies
Studio Alphacore
Media Rights Capital
QED International
3. TriStar Pictures Distribution
Budget US $ 115 million
Collection $ 286,140,700
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Elysium is an American science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp and starring
Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, Wagner Moura, Diego
Luna and William Fichtner. It is set in a near future in which an overpopulated
Earth has serious problems of overcrowding and pollution, while the richest part of
the population is isolated from all in a space habitat called Elysium.
In 2154, the rich live in an advanced space station called Elysium toroidal shape,
built by the Armadyne Corporation, while others live in an overpopulated Earth
ruined. The defense secretary, Jessica Delacourt (Jodie Foster), decided to retain
the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium and employs psychopathic
mercenary Kruger (Sharlto Copley) to remove illegal immigrants trying to reach
Elysium and use their advanced Med -Pods. President Patel (Faran Tahir)
disagree with their methods and threatens to cesarla addition to dismiss Kruger.
Delacourt then convinces the Chief Armadyne, John Carlyle (William Fichtner), to
write a computer program that can reset the control software and allow Elysium
replace its president. Carlyle stores the program in your own mind for safekeeping
until he leaves Earth to Elysium.
American Matt Damon plays Max DeCosta.
The estadounidenseJodie Fosterinterpreta Jessica Delacourt.
The Brazilian Alice Braga plays Frey.
The mexicanoDiego Lunainterpreta to July.
4. The estadounidenseWilliam Fichtnerinterpreta John Carlyle.
The sudafricanoSharlto Copleyinterpreta to Kruger.
The brasileñoWagner Mourainterpreta Spider.
Meanwhile, Max Da Costa (Matt Damon), an ex-con living in the ruins of Los
Angeles and works in Armadyne factories that manufacture robotic surveillance
drones to Elysium, is reunited with an old friend, Frey (Alice Braga ), who works as
a nurse in a crowded public hospital and has a daughter, Matilda, who is dying of
leukemia. After being exposed to dangerous levels of radiation in an accident and
learning that will die in five days, Max is dismissed by Carlyle, which seeks the help
of a smuggler, Spider (Wagner Moura), who agrees to help Max Elysium infiltrate
and use a Med-Pod to heal itself. In return, Max helps you steal information from
the mind of Carlyle Spider can exploit.
Max receives biotechnological implants, including a rudimentary mechanical
exoskeleton that increases your strength and a transmitter to transfer the code
directly from the mind of Carlyle to his and to pass them on to Spider. Then
intercepts Ferry Carlyle with the help of his friend Julio (Diego Luna) and Spider
men and steals data from the mind of Carlyle. Upon learning of the attack,
Delacourt unfolds Kruger and his men to rescue Carlyle, and in the ensuing fight,
Julio kills Carlyle and sacrifices himself so that Max can escape.
Max Frey looking for help, but refuses to smuggle Matilda to Elysium so it can heal.
Spider later tells Max that Delacourt quarantined to Los Angeles to find, and could
use the program to rewrite the configuration of Elysium and that the inhabitants of
Earth to become citizens too. Max refuses, and instead negotiate with Kruger for
him to be taken to Elysium to change the program. Frey and Matilda are captured
by the men of Kruger and taken to Elysium with Max; on the journey confronts Max
Kruger and his men, busting ship by the explosion of a Granada he was carrying,
and this collides with Elysium; there are captured by Delacourt, preparing to
remove the program from the mind of Max with the consequence of killing him in
the process. However, Kruger betrays Delacourt killing when this reproached for
not completing the mission discreetly.
Max escapes and meets Spider, who arrives with his men to help him. Together,
they kill Kruger and his men, and Max is sacrificed to load the program into the
control tower of Elysium. Spider then makes human beings on Earth citizens of
5. Elysium, allowing Frey use one of the Med-Pods to heal Matilda, while others are
launched to the Earth to locate and help others in need.
Cast
• Matt Damon (1970) as Max Da Costa.
• Jodie Foster (1962) and Jessica Delacourt, dictator of Elysium.
• Alice Braga (1983) as Nurse James Frey.
• Diego Luna (1979), as Julio, a friend of Max Da Costa.
• William Fichtner (1956) and John Carlyle, owner of the arms factory "Armadyne".
• Sharlto Copley (1973) as the murderer M. Kruger.
• Wagner Moura (1976) as the offender Spider.
• Ona Grauer (1978) as an agent of CCB.
• Carly Pope (1980), as an agent of CCB.
• Michael Shanks (1970), as an agent of CCB.
• Christina Cox (1971), as an agent of CCB.
• Maxwell Perry Cotton (2000) as Max Da Costa (boy).
• Valentina Giros, as Frey (girl).
• Emma Tremblay (2000), and Matilda, daughter of Frey.
• Brandon Auret (1970), as Drake.
• Josh Blacker (1960), as Crowe.
• José Pablo Cantillo (1979) and Sandro.
• Faran Tahir (1964), as President Patel.
• Adrian Holmes (1974) and Manuel.
• Jared Keeso (1984) and Rico.
• Terry Chen (1975) as a technician in Elysium neuroinformatics.
6. • Catherine Lough Haggquist like Burrard representative.
• Mike Mitchell (1968), as the foreman Max, guilty of irradiation.
• Johnny Cicco (1972) and Vincente.
• Derek Gilroy, like Paul.
• Mario Perez de Alba, one of the technicians Spider.
• Alejandro Belmonte, one of the technicians Spider.
• Tracy Waterhouse, as a nurse.
• Sofia Sisniega, as the secretary of billionaire Carlyle.