As more and more early reviews come in, the wait for Edgar Wright’s next film, “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World,” just seems to get longer, even as the August release date gets closer. Fortunately, Wright’s long-time friend and writing partner, Joe Cornish, has begun filming on his directorial debut, “Attack the Block,” which should be a fine stop-gap following the release of “Scott Pilgrim.”
Cornish, who’s best known in the UK as a comedian and DJ (in partnership with Adam Buxton, who’s appeared in the likes of “Stardust,” “Son of Rambow” and “Hot Fuzz,” ending up with a cathedral spire through his head in the latter), co-wrote drafts of “Ant-Man” and “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn” with Wright, and wrote “Attack the Block” on his lonesome. There have been rumors since the project’s inception that Nick Frost would take a key role in the project, and we’ve found some evidence that seems to confirms his presence in the movie, which follows an alien attack on a London council estate.
We stumbled across a now-deleted tweet from British TV actor Adam Leese, who has been listed on the film’s IMDB page for a little while as having a role in the film. A Google cache of the tweet, dated to February 21st, reads’ “Reading “Attack the Block” script for 1st read through tomorrow. Looking forward to working with Nick Frost.” Unless Leese is an Olympic-level fantasist, this seems to be a fairly rock solid confirmation that Frost is in the film – particularly with the posting having since been deleted (readers may remember a similar situation where Simon Pegg revealed the casting of Andy Serkis as his co-star in “Burke and Hare” on the social networking site, only to quickly erase it).
Luke Treadaway (“Brothers of the Head,” the upcoming “Clash of the Titans”) was also rumored to be involved in the project, but a very, very good source told us a few weeks back that, at that point at least, the actor wasn’t on board. However, that’s not to say that things haven’t changed – we’ll hopefully update on the project again shortly. And, you know, if anyone happens to have a copy of the script lying around…