A new trailer for the upcoming Elysium movie starring Matt Damon, has been released this week revealing more about the movies story and Damon’s role in proceedings.
Elysium is set in 2154 when the worlds population is spilt with the wealthy and privileged living on a high-tech space station without crime, or disease. The poor are left to work and live on the overpopulated Earth depleted of both natural resources and hope of a better life.
The Elysium movie will be a launching in theatres worldwide on August 9th 2013 and stars Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, with Sharlto Copley, Wagner Moura and Alice Braga.
“In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on Elysium, a massive high-tech utopian metropolis located in the skies above earth that is free of crime, war, poverty, hunger, and diseases, while everyone else lives on an overpopulated, ruined Earth below.
The citizens of Elysium live a life of luxury while the citizen of the Earth struggle to survive on a daily basis and are desperate to escape the planet, but those who maintain Elysium will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve their citizens’ lifestyle. Terminally diagnosed with cancer, 36-year-old Max DeCosta (Matt Damon), is in desperate need to get to Elysium to be cured and he reluctantly takes on a dangerous mission which pits him against Elysium’s Secretary Delacourt (Jodie Foster) and her forces.”
Source: NME