Country: UK, France
Year: 2011
Duration: 88'
London. In a low-income neighborhood, as five boys wearing hoodies are robbing the nurse Sam, a meteorite slams into a car. A small creature climbs out and the young thugs make short shrift of it. But it is only the beginning of a true invasion, led by big aliens who want revenge for their killed companion. The area becomes a battlefield and the group of boys is the one hope for the neighborhood. “In 2001, a gang of boys robbed me of my wallet and cell phone by simply taking advantage of their numerical superiority. I was struck by the fact that they were so young. The idea of the Earth being the target of an alien attack has always fascinated me, so I started to think: what would happen if all that actually occurred in the neighborhood in south London where I grew up? And what would happen if something like that took place as I was being robbed? That’s how I got the idea for a group of kids, on the fringe of society and feared by everybody, who suddenly become heroes.”
Biography
film director
Joe Cornish
Joe Cornish (London, United Kingdom, 1968) studied at the Bournemouth Film School, after which he and Adam Buxton created the TV program The Adam and Joe Show, which won the Royal Television Society award for new talents in 1998. He then worked as a director for Channel 4 on series such as Blunder and also collaborated a screenwriter for BBC2 and as a presenter on BBC Radio 4, without interrupting his radio career alongside Adam Buxton. Their Saturday morning show was named radio program of the year at the 2008 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, and also received three Silver Sony Awards in 2009 and a Sony Gold as best radio comedy in 2010. For Marvel, he wrote the script of The Astonishing Ant Man along with Edgar Wright, with whom he also co-wrote The Adventures of Tintin - The Secret of the Unicorn (2011) by Steven Spielberg. Attack the Block is the first film he has directed.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Blunder (ep. pilota/Pilot, tv, 2006), Attack the block (2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Joe Cornish
fotografia/cinematography
Tom Townend
montaggio/film editing
Jonathan Amos
scenografia/production design
Marcus Rowland
costumi/costume design
Rosa Dias
musica/music
Steve Price, Basement Jaxx
suono/sound
Julian Slater
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Jodie Whittaker (Sam), Luke Treadaway (Brewis), Nick Frost (Ron), John Boyega (Moses), Alex Esmail (Pest), Franz Drameh (Denis), Leeon Jones (Jerome), Simon Howard (Biggz), Jumayn Hunter (Hi-Hatz)
produttori/producers
Nira Park, James Wilson
produzione/production
Big Talk Productions, Film4, Studio Canal, Uk Film Council
distribuzione/distribution
Filmauro
TFF
prizes
