A remake, sequel and television series of Attack The Block are amongst the projects Joe Cornish has been chatting about...
Attack the Block is a film that won critics and audiences over on both sides of the Atlantic this year, even despite the fears regarding certain audiences failing to understand much of the dialogue. The mix of sci-fi, horror, action and comedy proved to be a winning combination, and thus talk of expanding the series was perhaps inevitable.
At Comic-Con in San Diego earlier this year, director Joe Cornish stated that the film’s producer, Edgar Wright, had proposed a sequel idea, but remained tight lipped on it. At the recent Comic-Con in New York, in an exclusive interview with IFC, Cornish was more forthcoming with information regarding a potential sequel. But this time, the idea had come from the film’s star, John Boyega, who played Moses.
"He keeps coming up with amazing ideas, he has this image of a bigger alien attack on London, as if the attack we saw in Attack the Block was just the first wave and there's another wave of bigger creatures" Cornish revealed. "And he described to me this image of Moses leading a whole army of hood kids across the Thames, next to the Houses of Parliament."
"No, his image was even better," Cornish continued. "He had an image of Moses on a police horse. You know the police in London who have those horses they use in riots...somehow Moses has got onto one of those horses. So he's on a horse leading this army of South London kids across the river to take on this bigger wave of aliens. So yeah it's really fun to think of stuff like that and what we could do."
It certainly sounds interesting and I wouldn’t be averse to a sequel. I'd also quite like to see Cornish turn his hand to something different, too: this is a man with potentially a lot of great film in him.
Cornish also revealed that he has been approached over the possibility of a remake as well as a spin off TV series. Even given the response the film has had in America, a remake isn’t a huge surprise, but it’s the least exciting potential project that was discussed.
A spin off TV series could be interesting, particularly given the success of shows such as Misfits, which has certain thematic similarities to Attack the Block. Cornish did point out that the talks were in early stages so we’ll have to wait to see which of these, if any, come to fruition.
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