` ` District 9 '' is a new movie , says CNN.com 's John Charity . It is about aliens who emerge over Johannesburg . The story 's origins are with the extraterrestrials ' arrival in the early '80s , when they park their spaceship a mile or so above Johannesburg , South Africa . Eventually , they 're to be moved to a planet , and then the action starts .
` ` District 9 '' is a new movie , says CNN.com 's John Charity . It is about aliens who emerge over Johannesburg . Eventually , they 're to be moved to a planet , and then the action starts .