Nick Frost fights aliens in Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block, plot revealed!

By Jake Dee

Posted 16 years ago

Last Updated on July 23, 2021

The dude from SHAUN OF THE DEAD in an alien-tinged action-comedy? Oh f*ck yes!!!

Empire Online is reporting that Nick Frost (sorry folks, not Simon Pegg) has recently been added to the cast of a Joe Cornish’s new genre mash-up ATTACK THE BLOCK. Okay, cool enough. But why should we give a rat’s balls about flick from a first time filmmaker? Read on…

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You see, this chap Cornish is a well established writer, having worked on such high-profile projects as Spielberg’s ADVENTURES OF TINTIN and the Edgar Wright attached 2012 project ANT-MAN. So that’s two SHAUN OF THE DEAD connections (remember, Wright directed the 2004 zombedy). Wanna third? Okay, “Spaced,” HOTT FUZZ & SHAUN OF THE DEAD producer Nira Park is also in line to reprise her duties on ATTACK THE BLOCK. Good shite!

Not only that, Cornish wrote the script himself, which has already attracted Jodie Whittaker to as a trainee nurse who gets attacked by some tower block-dwelling ruffians while on her way home. However, she’s saved by a falling meteor, and escapes during the confusion. The meteor, meanwhile, has brought with it a vicious alien which attacks the gang, who quickly kill it and display its carcass on top of their block. But that’s only the beginning of their brush with ET – a brush that we’re guessing will drag Sam back into the bloody conflict before the night is over.

Don’t know about you, but this has all the dressings of a large-scale invasion romp, and with Frost bringing his trademark English wit to the fore, I couldn’t be more excited. What do you guys think?

Alongside Frost and Whittaker will be a roster of newbies, including John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Leeon Jones and Simon Howard. Relative screen vet Luke Treadway will also star.

So let’s hear it…thoughts on ATTACK THE BLOCK? The casting? The (perhaps temporary) onscreen division of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost? Let’s hear it!

Source: Empire

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