First Elysium trailer from District 9 director Neil Blomkamp shows Matt Damon’s 99.9 per cent taking on Jodie Foster’s perfect, moneyed world…

Damon plays Max, who is, by all accounts – including how he gets the money for a trip to Elysium – quite a bad man. Still, when the fate of Earth’s dying millions are in your hands as you battle Foster’s Secretary Rhodes, it seems desperate times call for desperate measures.

Check out the trailer below to see what Blomkamp has in store for us. On this basis, we need to hand the man that long-stalled Halo movie!

Elysium opens in US cinemas on 9 August 2013 and in UK cinemas on 20 September 2013. Elysium: The Art Of The Film by Titan Books is available on 6 August 2013.