The name Joe Cornish, making his feature film debut with Attack the Block, may not resonate with most people but I guarantee you’ll know who he is after reading this. As a close associate of Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz), the two worked together on the screenplays for Ant-Man and Tintin which I believe is enough to give the man a chance. The one true common thread between the two is that Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead) has officially been in both of their movies.
Well, his new film is premiering at the upcoming SXSW festival but early reports from an advanced screening of the film have been extremely positive. Empire stated via twitter that the film is “funny, thrilling and highly quotable,” a combination that has already got me hooked and that I personally enjoy.
The film is about a group of tough inner city British teens that make a stand against an oncoming alien invasion. Sounds pretty cool right? The trailer is rather unique, very entertaining, and could very well be the same level as Shaun of the Dead. Check out the trailer and synopsis below and let us know what you think.
Attack The Block is a fast, funny, frightening action adventure movie that pits a teen gang against an invasion of savage alien monsters. It turns a housing estate into a SCI-FI PLAYGROUND. A tower block into a fortress under siege. And weapon wielding teenage thugs into heroes. Think ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 only with monsters and a tower block. Or LA HAINE crossed with ALIENS. It’s inner city versus outer space.
Trainee nurse Sam is walking home to her flat in a scary South London tower block when she’s robbed by a gang of masked, hooded youths. She’s saved when the gang are distracted by a bright meteorite, which falls from the sky and hits a nearby parked car. Sam flees, just before the gang are attacked by a small alien creature that leaps from the wreckage. The gang chase the creature and kill it, dragging its ghoulish carcass to the top of the block, with they treat as their territory.
While Sam and the police hunt for the gang, a second wave of meteors fall. Confident of victory against such feeble invaders, the gang grab weapons, mount bikes and mopeds, and set out to defend their turf. But this time the creatures are bigger. Much bigger. Savage, shadowy and bestial, they are hunting their fallen comrade and nothing will stand in their way. THE ESTATE IS ABOUT TO BECOME A BATTLEGROUND. And the bunch of no-hope kids who just attacked Sam are about to become her, and the block’s, only hope.
Attack the Block stars a group of mostly unknowns excluding Nick Frost, Jodie Whittaker (Perrier’s Bounty) and Luke Treadaway (Clash of the Titans).
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