With District 9 garnering four Oscar nominations earlier this week, every blogger and their mother is trying to figure out what’s next for everyone involved. We know director Neill Blomkamp is working on another, slightly higher budgeted sci-fi piece; Sharlto Copley has found his South African way into The A-Team, and now io9 got on the phone with Terri Tatchell to find out what the D9 co-writer has on her plate.

Aside from letting everyone know that she’s read Neill’s next project (which she claims is unsurprisingly quite amazing), she tells io9 that her true dream is to write a young adult science fiction novel which eventually can be adapted to the screen, presumably by her husband…Neill Blomkamp. But in the mean time she’s working on a script that's a feature adaptation of a short film called Terminus, directed by close friend Trevor Cawood. She explains,

“It's a bit more science fiction, fantasy. It's about a stone creature that follows this stressed-out guy around, just stressing him more and more. “

Incidentally, that’s exactly how they made District 9, working from Blomkamp’s own short Alive in Joburg, so Tatchell is taking that experience and expanding it into a more challenging project. No word yet on when we’ll start hearing more--she’s only on her second draft--but I would think the marketing would tie in nicely with the promotions for Blomkamp’s next film. Within the next year start listening for Terminus news.

Check out the original short below.