Dan Persons: Cinefantastique’s New York Comic Con 2011: Joe Cornish on Attack the Block

You gotta love an alien invasion film where the aliens make the serious mistake of trying to invade some council estates (read, “projects”) in London and discover that the street-tough kids there are not going to yield the territory without racking up a body count. That’s the idea behind Attack the Block, Joe Cornish’s directorial debut that was exec produced by Shaun of the Dead‘s Edgar Wright. It’s neatly pulled off with a surprising bit of depth, and worth checking out on its homevid release.

So a bunch of us were gathered in a room in New York Comic Con’s press warren, and got to throw questions indiscriminately (but incisively) at Joe. I managed to capture the session for this podcast.