In a recent interview, Sharlto Copley who played Wikus van der Merwe in Neill Blomkamp‘s District 9 revealed that a sequel will likely happen in approximately two years. Copley said that both he and director Neill Blomkamp want to go back to Joburg and says that it could possibly be a prequel instead of a sequel.

Copley told Empire,

“Neil wants it and I want it. Neil’s doing another film first. Then I think if everything goes according to plan we’ll do the second film in about two years time. That story can go in so many different ways. There’s a whole universe. I’m sure a lot of writers say that, but we actually have an entire universe.

“This thing started shooting in 2005, and before we shot the film we shot Alive In Joburg and two other shorts as part of Neil’s creative development process. Those next two films actually had my character, Wikus, in them, although I wasn’t called Wikus in them. So they were two parts of the development of the world and where the story was going to go and all that.

“There’s a million ways you can go. Neil’s actually very interested in prequels as well; he’s said that a few times. We wouldn’t do the traditional Hollywood version of the sequel which would just be 100 aliens fighting humans.”