"I feel like I belong in there , as a fan," smiled District 9 director Neill Blomkamp to a buzzing crowd in Comic-Con 's Hall H today.
"I try to be as honest as I can as a filmmaker and the idea of launching footage at Comic-Con is an honest thing, and I'm OK with it"
Blomkamp, whose debut premiered footage in 2009, explained "the theme is about wealth discrepancy" before revealing seven minutes of gritty, violent, expansive and explosive footage to the waiting masses.
Elysium imagines the world of 2154, a world of disease, poverty, pollution and vast over population.
In desperation the wealthy few have established a new off-planet world - a place where there's no war, no sickness or depravity.
"And you're not invited" - reads the opening titles.
Cut to Matt Damon, bald and brawny fighting his way through slums regulated by violent police droids, not a million miles from the backdrops of District 9 .
Damon's incarcerated after a run-in with the droids and after an accident is exposed to extreme levels of radiation.
Does it turn him into a superhero?
It does not.
