Attack the Block Remake and Series on the Way?

Steve Barton   |  

Oct 14, 2011

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In just a couple of weeks the phenomenal Attack the Block will be hitting Blu-ray and DVD courtesy of Sony, but the good news doesn’t stop there. There are some interesting rumblings going on right now. Read on for the details.

According to IFC News director Joe Cornish has confirmed that several options for the franchise are now on the table, including a sequel, a television series, and an American remake.

At the San Diego Comic-Con this past summer, Cornish mentioned that Edgar Wright had proposed a sequel idea but wouldn’t divulge any more than that. Cornish is still tight-lipped on what that suggestion was, but in an interview with IFC at New York Comic Con, he was more willing to reveal a sequel idea from his newcomer star John Boyega, who plays the teenage group leader and chief monster-killer Moses.

“[He] keeps coming up with amazing ideas,” says Cornish of Boyega. “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. 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.”

Apart from cast suggestions on what a sequel could look like, Cornish also divulged that other possible adaptations are in very early discussions. “We’ve had approaches for a remake and a sequel. We’ve had approaches for a TV show to spin off it. But it’s very early days, you know. So it’s not out of the question but very early days, and I’d certainly like to do something different for my next thing if I get a chance to do a next thing.”

More as it comes.

Be sure to read our Attack the Block review, and for more check out the Attack the Block (US) Facebook page and the Attack the Block website.

Look for it on Blu-ray and DVD on October 25th.

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, which they treat as their territory.

While Sam and the police hunt for the gang, a second wave of meteors falls. 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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