Attack The Block is back!

And other upcoming projects director Joe Cornish has been cooking up to follow The Kid Who Would Be King

ATTACK THE BLOCK 2

A sequel to to Cornish’s acclaimed 2011 sci-fi debut, about South London kids fending off terrifying aliens

“John [Boyega] and I have had on-and-off discussions about doing something else with those characters, really since we made the first one. So, yeah, without wanting to get anybody too excited, there are definitely conversations happening. We both think that there’s more to be said and done, and it would be kind of cool to revisit the surviving characters ten years later.”

SNOW CRASH

Long-mooted adaptation of Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi novel about a pizza delivery driver/ hacker, originally pitched as a film

“That has mutated into a series for HBO Max, which is currently being written by Michael Bacall. I’m hoping [to direct some episodes]. I’d like to do it all. Obviously, there’s a big difference in adapting a novel for a feature and for a series — especially with Snow Crash, which is an incredibly dense, action-packed, clever, sophisticated book. It’s a bit of a cliché but it’s true: a TV show done at the right level gives you scope to be more faithful to a book than a movie would. You can really get into the nooks and crannies of the story.”

COMPLETE FICTION

Production company set up with Edgar Wright and producers Nira Park and Rachael Prior “We’d been talking about it for a couple of years. The main delay was thinking of the name, which has taken at least 18 months. It’s so difficult. All the good ones are taken. There were quite a lot of rejected names that sounded like cosmetic companies. But it’s an umbrella under which anything can happen. Maybe a baked goods chain? Personal massage service? Or Edgar could actually start selling Cornettos. We’ve been working hard on Lockwood & Co, which is a series of brilliant novels by Jonathan Stroud about a ghost-hunting agency in London. I’ve been writing a bunch of episodes of that, and with luck, will be directing that as soon as directing things is permitted again. That’s on Netflix. I’m also working on a fun highconcept horror script. Lots of stuff!” JOHN NUGENT