Joe Cornish’s “Attack The Block” came out almost exactly six years ago, and was one of the very best directorial debuts of recent years: an utterly thrilling, tonally assured sci-fi picture that, among its many merits, helped to break “Star Wars” lead John Boyega out. But dispiritingly, Cornish hasn’t made another movie since.
He had writing credit on “Ant-Man” and “The Adventures Of Tintin” with occasional partner-in-crime Edgar Wright, was linked to various studio gigs including “Gambit,” “Kong: Skull Island” and “Star Trek Beyond,” and has had a number of his own projects in development including cyberpunk thriller “Snow Crash,” comic book adaptation “Rust” and period spy actioner “Section 6,” but none came to pass in the end. Fortunately, it looks like Cornish finally has a go picture, as a casting call has revealed that he’s directing a new family adventure movie called “The Kid Who Would Be King.”
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Again teaming Cornish with Working Title and Big Talk (who also make most of Edgar Wright’s movies together), the film is described as “a family fantasy action-adventure movie about a band of young kids embarking on an epic quest to thwart a Medieval menace.” So “The Goonies” by way of “Game Of Thrones?” That sounds like good fun to us.
If you have, or are, a 10-15 year-old and want to be in the film, you can get in touch via the poster below. With filming set to get underway late in the summer, the rest of us can look forward to the film when it opens on September 28th, 2018.
— Jessica Ronane (@JessicaRonane) May 5, 2017