Blomkamp does seem to understand that the movie was Very Bad, and I admire his desire to improve upon an idea he really likes, but I’d much rather he kept doing his Oats Studios thing and worked more on short films until he has a newer, cooler idea to expand upon.
I think that if you were to take something like Elysium and play with it inside a setting like this [his Oats Studios short films] you probably would hone it – you would end up, I think, with something well thought through and that has all of the thematic elements that I wanted.
Blomkamp recently told ScreenRant that he would have liked to work on the story of Elysium in an environment like his Oats Studios, which he’s currently using to explore other concepts and ideas for sci-fi properties in the form of short films.
I just think I can do a better job in setting up what the themes are more clearly and what the character’s motivations are.