Hasta La Ideas

Legendary futurist and designer, Syd Mead, who we were just talking about the other day with the release of the excellent short documentary about him, 2019: A Future Imagined, has reportedly signed on with director Neill Blomkamps, who made 2009′s hit sci-fi film District 9, to help handle the design duties for his next film, Elysium. Mead, of course, is no stranger to the film industry, having most famously worked on creating the look of Blade Runner and Tron. While perhaps not as often in the limelight as he once was, this is sure to be a nice boost, as well as getting younger people interested in his work (assuming, of course, that the film turns out to be any good). As i09 calls it, it isn’t too shabby of a get for Blomkamp either:

Mead is a huge catch for Blomkamp given that the designer doesn’t sign on for any old project. Furthermore, details about Elysium are scant at this point, but we do know that it stars Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, and Sharlto Copley and that production will occur in Vancouver and Mexico City this summer and fall. The film should be released around Holiday 2012.

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