As regular Geek Curmudgeon readers know, the low budget UK sf film Attack the Block blew me away. Well, I was lucky enough to interview writer/director Joe Cornish and star John Boyega for Blastr.
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| “We were doing something people don’t do in the U.K. that often,” said writer/director Joe Cornish about the thrilling alien invasion film Attack the Block. “We were trying to make an adventure film, a fantasy film, a chase film.” |
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| Boyega, whose previous experience consisted primarily of stage productions, talked about the working atmosphere. “We were a young cast, and we all had that vibrant energy. We were very enthusiastic to do it. Everybody had big talking. The production team really showed—I don’t know if they were putting it on—us that they knew what they were doing, and we totally trusted them. But I’m a teenager, so I’m naive.” |
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| Inspired by low-budget, high-concept ’80s science fiction films, Attack the Block initially centered around Cornish’s own 2001 mugging experience, but it quickly evolved into a treatise on modern block life. “The interesting thing about London is that it’s very mixed. You’ll get a millionaire living next to someone on housing support,” explained the director. “They’ll shop in the same shops and walk the same streets. There are all these different types of people, all these backgrounds, all these socioeconomic positions. They are separated by these kind of fake barriers. I was interested in using an alien invasion to bring those different characters together to point the commonalities between people rather than the differences.” |
As for the bathroom breaks, check out the rest of my Blastr interview.
Why you won’t need bathroom breaks during Attack the Block was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon