Elysium’s Matt Damon on the joys of gluing gadgets to your skull

In Neill Blomkamp’s new film Elysium, Matt Damon wears an insane-looking exoskeleton apparatus. And we talked to Damon, one on one, about how having steel bolts in his head changes his fighting style.

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How Close Are We to Elysium-Style Exosuits?

How Close Are We to Elysium-Style Exosuits?

Matt Damon’s latest film, Elysium, is set 140 years in the future where society is divided between the elites, who live in a utopian orbital society, and the rest of us, who struggle in squalor down on the planet’s surface. To combat this inequality, an unsung hero installs himself into a full-body prosthetic and breaks into the "most secure place in the universe." Must be one hell of a suit.

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15 Minutes of Elysium Behind the Scenes Footage Is Pure Mech-Madness

So here we have 15 minutes worth of behind the scenes footage from Neill Blomkamp’s upcoming "postapocalyptic" movie Elysium. I mean, this is basically the entire movie, which doesn’t open until August 9! Does the studio know about this?

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New Elysium Trailer: High-Tech Dystopia Never Looked So Good

It feels like we’ve been waiting ages for the release of Neill Blomkamp’s latest movie, Elysium. But in this new trailer, we’re given a more in-depth look at what’s to come when the film comes out on August 9th: sublime space habitats, an earth sliding into chaos, and Matt Damon making robot jokes.

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