John Boyega Teases New Collaboration With ATTACK THE BLOCK Director Joe Cornish
Joe Cornish's British sci-fi film Attack The Block is one of my favorite movies of the past few years. It's the film largely responsible for John Boyega securing the role of Finn in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but it's an awesome movie in its own right that you should really take the time to seek out if you haven't seen it. Fans of the movie have wondered about a possible sequel, and now Boyega is cryptically tweeting about meeting up with Cornish for a new project:
While many are hoping Boyega is teasing a possible Attack The Block sequel here, I'm not so sure. If that was the case, I feel like he would have included some reference to the original movie in there as a hint, one of its catch phrases like "allow it" or "believe." But anything is possible.
Boyega and Cornish talked about a sequel in 2011 after the first film came out, with Cornish explaining all of the cool idea Boyega had for the Moses character to continue the adventure:
"[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. 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."
Cornish has been rumored for or attached to a number of potential blockbuster movies over the past few years, but at this point, Attack The Block remains the only film he's directed. Perhaps Boyega's newfound star power will be enough to generate enough traction for a studio to finance a sequel. What do you think? Would you like to see Attack The Block 2, or are you hoping the duo is collaborating on something completely fresh?