The upcoming film, Attack The Block will be Joe Cornish’s first major motion picture as a director.  He just started filming for the project this week.  Available sources report that he has established a full cast and information about the plot is now available.

The film’s story will open with Jodie Whittaker starring as Sam, a trainee nurse who gets attacked by thugs from a tower block while going home from work.  Then, a falling meteor appears, confusing the hoodlums and allowing her to escape.  Furthermore, it turns out that this meteor came to Earth with an alien on it hitching a ride.  However, this visitor from another world isn’t friendly and attacks the thugs who react by killing it and displaying its body on their block.  But that’s just where the film gets started as more alien encounters are likely to come, putting Sam in the middle of a violent conflict as the film heads toward a climax.

Other actors in the movie will include veterans such as Luke Treadaway and Nick Frost as well as a host of newcomers.  These fresh faces to film are John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Leeon Jones and Simon Howard.  ”Inner city versus Outer space” is the theme behind Attack The Block and Cornish is also the writer for the film.  He has previously worked with Edgar Wright on screenplays for other films such as Ant-man and The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn and Wright will be on staff for this film’s production.  However, Wright didn’t come onto the project alone.  Nira Park, the producer of Spaced, Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz are also working alongside Cornish.  Considering the success of Edgar Wright’s creative work, Attack The Block could be another film hit in the making.

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