Two bits of news today from Edgar Wright cohort Joe Cornish's upcoming scifi comedy Attack The Block, one bit new and the other previously overlooked.
On the new side Wright tweeted yesterday that he'd heard part of the (apparently catchy) score for Cornish's picture, revealing in the process that the score had been prepared by Basement Jaxx. Said Wright: "Heard some of Basement Jaxx's score for Joe Cornish's Attack the Block yesterday. Still humming it today." Though the band has never made it as big here as they have in the UK this is still significant - and I think quite good - news.
The overlooked bit? Back in mid-December UK distributors Optimum Releasing released the first official still from the film, which appears to have been overlooked by pretty much everyone outside of the UK. That's it up above, featuring the cast of hooded hooligans who must save their neighborhood from an alien invasion.
For those unfamiliar with Cornish, he is a popular UK comedian and one half of Adam And Joe. He's also a somewhat regular collaborator with Wright, having had bit parts in both Shaun of the Dead and The Hot Fuzz while working with Wright on the script for Ant-Man and a polish of the script for Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson's Tintin. Here's the complete synopsis:
On the new side Wright tweeted yesterday that he'd heard part of the (apparently catchy) score for Cornish's picture, revealing in the process that the score had been prepared by Basement Jaxx. Said Wright: "Heard some of Basement Jaxx's score for Joe Cornish's Attack the Block yesterday. Still humming it today." Though the band has never made it as big here as they have in the UK this is still significant - and I think quite good - news.
The overlooked bit? Back in mid-December UK distributors Optimum Releasing released the first official still from the film, which appears to have been overlooked by pretty much everyone outside of the UK. That's it up above, featuring the cast of hooded hooligans who must save their neighborhood from an alien invasion.
For those unfamiliar with Cornish, he is a popular UK comedian and one half of Adam And Joe. He's also a somewhat regular collaborator with Wright, having had bit parts in both Shaun of the Dead and The Hot Fuzz while working with Wright on the script for Ant-Man and a polish of the script for Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson's Tintin. Here's the complete synopsis:
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.
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Well, he's got the casting right.... looks very authentic - those kids could have walked in off of any South London council estate.