If you hadn’t heard Attack the Block is the brain-child and first directorial feature from Joe Cornish (of Adam & Joe fame) which tells the story of an alien invasion on a South London tower block – first glimpses look brilliant. Cornish has of late really pushed the boat out and is moving from cult T.V. & radio star to a major Hollywood player – knocking boots with the likes of Steven Spielberg on the upcoming Tin Tin movie and Marvel movie project Ant-Man. It was extremely exciting to be there tonight to see the first major string to his ever-expanding bow.
Charming and eager to talk about movies, Mr. Cornish gave a tantalising rundown of what we can expect – action, laughs, scares and at it’s heart an homage to the sci-fi/beastie movies of his cinematic youth, just a few of his referential name drops included E.T. – Critters – Tremors – Awesome! With this movie Cornish said he wanted to take a different view of London gang culture and skew the more common (and lets face it sometimes true) view that all hooded youths are violent criminals – so expect to see heroic chavs defeating scary space monsters.
Attack the Block goes on general release next week – and we absolutely can’t wait – expect savvy references to some of your favourite sci-fi classics, genuine scares beside genuine laughs and some great creature effects…
