[caption id=“attachment_5635” align=“aligncenter” width=“500”] An NYCC Exclusive Attack the Block Print from Marvel Comics[/caption]

One of my top films for this, the year of 2011, is Attack the Block, but you already know that.

What you may not know is that it hits DVD and Blu-Ray tomorrow. (You might wanna swing over to Amazon for that.)

Anyway, many people, including myself, but more importantly, big money Hollywood types are pretty much figuring that Attack the Block is going to wind up as quite the big movie on video.  So in turn, creator/director Joe Cornish is starting to get quite a few offers on the table.

Like what, you ask?  As Cornish spoke to IFC about, they are about what you’d expect.  You have the standard US remake, which would be completely unnecessary and terribly shit, I feel.  There’s the idea of a TV series - again, pretty unnecessary and terribly shit.

But then there’s the sequel idea - which I’m only vaguely interested in because the idea of it comes from actor John Boyega, who starred as the lead, Moses.

Here’s what Cornish said on Boyega’s idea for Attack the Block 2:

"[He] keeps coming up with amazing ideas," says Cornish of Boyega. "He has this image of a bigger alien attack on London, as if the attack we saw in 'Attack the Block' was just the [first] wave and there's another wave of bigger creatures. And he described to me this image of Moses leading a whole army of hood kids across the Thames, next to the houses of Parliament."

“No, his image was even better,” Cornish continued. “He had an image of Moses on a police horse. You know the police in London who have those horses they use in riots…somehow Moses has got onto one of those horses. So he’s on a horse leading this army of South London kids across the river to take on this bigger wave of aliens. So yeah it’s really fun to think of stuff like that and what we could do."

That honestly sounds pretty awesome, and I suppose at the end of the day, we always would have the pitch perfect film to look back at.

Any way you slice it, if you’re reading this and haven’t seen Attack the Block yet, pick it up, Redbox it or do whatever you do to see movies - it’s a damn fine film.

Source: IFC