PRESENTS Written and Directed by Joe Cornish Starring Jodie Whittaker, Luke Treadaway and Nick Frost And introducing John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Leeon Jones, Simon Howard, Jumayn Hunter Release Date: December 1, 2011 Running Time: 88 mins Rating: CTC For publicity & promotional opportunities, please contact Natalie Motto
[email protected] / 02 8594 9037 www.iconmovies.com.au Images available on www.image.net 1 SYNOPSIS ATTACK THE BLOCK is a fast, funny, frightening action adventure movie that pits a teen gang against an invasion of savage alien monsters. It turns a London housing estate into a sci-fi playground. A tower block into a fortress under siege. And teenage street kids into heroes. It‟s inner city versus outer space. Trainee nurse Sam is walking home to her flat in a scary South London tower block when she‟s robbed by a gang of masked, hooded youths. She‟s saved when the gang are distracted by a bright meteorite, which falls from the sky and hits a nearby parked car. Sam flees, just before the gang are attacked by a small alien creature that leaps from the wreckage. The gang chase the creature and kill it, dragging its ghoulish carcass to the top of the block, which they treat as their territory. While Sam and the police hunt for the gang, a second wave of meteors fall. Confident of victory against such feeble invaders, the gang grab weapons, mount bikes and mopeds, and set out to defend their turf. But this time, the creatures are bigger. Much bigger.