EXT. STARSCAPE – NIGHT
The NIGHT SKY, speckled with STARS. But look closely and -- one of the stars is SHOOTING.
EXT. SOUTH LONDON SKYLINE – EVENING
Miles beneath, the South London SKYLINE. TOWER BLOCKS line the horizon like broken teeth.
FIREWORKS crackle and bloom in the distance. Must be early November. Bonfire Night.
Lower still, a teeming scrum of COMMUTERS and VEHICLES around an UNDERGROUND STATION.
Above is a excerpt of the first page of Joe Cornish’s screenplay for ‘ATTACK THE BLOCK’; a film that he’s been thinking about making for ten years, which gets released in the UK & Ireland today.
I’ve been a friend of Joe’s for 12 years now and was a fan of his before that. I can’t tell you how happy I was to be a part of this movie and help in some small way to get it made.
I also can’t stress enough how proud we all are of the finished result. I hope those of you in the UK and Ireland have a blast with it this weekend. I hope one day it double bills with ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ as it really as much of a love letter to South London, as my film was to North London.
Congratulations to Joe, the amazing cast, crew and all at Big Talk who’ve worked tirelessly on this one.
Enjoy!
Attack The Block UK Alternative Poster
Attack The Block UK Quad
Attack The Block Premiere | Team Big Talk! – May 4th, 2011
Me (Edgar Wright), Simon Pegg, Nira Park, Matthew Justice and Jim Wilson at the Attack The Block premiere.
On the set of Attack The Block | Me and Joe Cornish
Me, Joe and Nick at SXSW 2011
Image reproduced from Driven By Boredom.
My photos from the Prince Charles Screening and Q&A
