For the release of the action RPG Anthem, District 9 creator Neill Blomkamp produced a short film. Check out Anthem: Conviction here.
What is this film about? The short film Anthem: Conviction takes place decades before the events of the game. It hints at the backstory of the Javelin and Freelancer and shows in live-action what Fort Tarsis and the exosuits would look like in the real world.
The collaboration between BioWare and Blomkamp was announced this week.
What can be seen? The short film feels very much like a trailer for something that could still come. It either alludes to the story of the game or to further films that expand the story of Conviction.
In the film, a ranger is seen who finds a girl in a white dress at the gates of Fort Tarsis. Meanwhile, a mother tells her son how people were once enslaved by the Urgoth, but were able to rise against them and win.
Meanwhile, the ranger and an interceptor arrive in Fort Tarsis with the girl and tell that she was alone in the jungle. People assume she survived there for years, something that shouldn’t really be possible.
Then, small snippets of various scenes are shown: a cypher talking about a new beginning, a soldier, perhaps a sentinel, promising another man that he will get his son back, as well as people and freelancers, fighting against their enemies.
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In one scene, even the Monitor is seen, one of the villains that we have to fight against in Anthem.
Who created the film? The whole thing was produced by science fiction director Neill Blomkamp, who is known for District 9, among other works. Blomkamp has also worked on short films for the release of Halo 3 and was even in talks with Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson for a film adaptation of the Halo franchise for a time.
