First poster for Neill Blomkamp's 'Elysium'

Finally, the curtain is beginning to be lifted on Neill Blomkamp's next high-concept science fiction effort, Elysium. After months where nothing on the film was seen, a pair of images were recently released, and Sony debuted the trailer and ten minutes of footage to a select group of Los Angeles journalists. Based on the descriptions, it sounds like finished versions of the same footage shown at Comic-Con last year. A trailer will hit the web later, but for now we'll have to settle for the first poster.

Set in the year 2154, economic inequality has reached staggering new levels, with the wealthy living in the skies aboard a pristine, disease-free space station known as Elysium. Back on Earth, the poor struggle to survive on an overpopulated planet drained of its resources. Matt Damon plays Max De Costa, a regular guy who needs to get up to Elysium to save his own life, while Jodie Foster is Secretary Rhodes, who will stop at nothing to maintain the status quo.

Also starring Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, and Wagner Moura, Elysium opens on August 9th.