We’ve seen a ton of stills from ATTACK THE BLOCK this year, and Sony Screen Gems managed to squeeze out one more. See it above. The film opens in theaters tomorrow. Unfortunately, it’s going up against COWBOYS & ALIENS, but hopefully people check it out any way. Early posse has been unanimously positive.
The U.K. sci-fi/action/comedy is written and directed by Joe Cornish. It is executive produced by SHAUN OF THE DEAD director Edgar Wright and stars SHAUN’s Nick Frost, along with Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Leeon Jones, Simon Howard, Luke Treadaway and Jumayn Hunter.
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.