Chappie Interview: Blomkamp, Jackman, Copley and Weaver — collider.com

Writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s third feature involves a South Africa-based weapons company called Tetra Vaal. The company’s Scout models are a huge hit and successfully help the local police force control crime in the area, but the engineer behind the robots is looking to go bigger. Even though Tera Vaal CEO Michelle Bradley (Sigourney Weaver) doesn’t approve, Deon (Dev Patel) decides to give his new A.I. program a go using a decommissioned Scout and then, Chappie (Sharlto Copley) is born. Trouble is, Chappie winds up in the hands of a group of gangsters, so Deon’s plan to mold Chappie’s very impressionable mind and raise him right goes out the window.

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