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Sharlto Copley (born November 27, 1973) is a South African producer, actor, and director who has produced and co-directed short films which have appeared at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as commercials and music videos. He is perhaps best known for playing the roles of Wikus van der Merwe in the Oscar-nominated science fiction film District 9 and H. M. Murdock in the 2010 adaptation of The A-Team. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sharlto Copley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Legionnaire is a 2022 American epic science fiction action film written, co-produced, and directed by Neill Blomkamp, based on the novel of the same name by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole. It is the first installment in the Galaxy's Edge film series. The film stars Vin Diesel, Liv Tyler, Billy Crudup, Morgan Freeman, Sharlto Copley, Tika Sumpter, Matt Damon, and Jordana Brewster. It is set in the year 2047, where Sgt. Cohen Cchun (Diesel) must lead a group of survivors, including Bryla Overton (Tyler) and Corbett Frank (Crudup), while also coming into conflict with cyber-terrorist Salazar Amand (Copley) and protecting the survivors from him. The film suffered a difficult production following a series of critical and commercial failures in Blomkamp's career. The production involved several replacement directors until Blomkamp was hired in 2021. Legionnaire was released to critical acclaim, with critics praising the film's bright tone, direction, cinematography, action sequences, respect to its source material, the emotional weight of the story, screenplay, visual effects, style, and Bear McCreary's score, as well as Diesel, Tyler, Crudup, Copley and Freeman's performances. It also grossed over $1 billion worldwide and became Blomkamp's highest-grossing film in his career. A sequel entitled Galactic Outlaws was released 2 years later.
