attack the block director joe cornish has an update on the highly anticipated sequel and it sounds like theres some very thorough research going into the followup projectwe put a lot of work into the first one he told the kingcast obviously i can make stuff up about aliens quite easily but the other stuff the aspects of reality that we folded the fantasy into we did a lot of research for and so we are currently doing that same thingwe have a very detailed treatment and a storyline were very very excited about and when i say we i mean me and john boyega who im coproducing the film with and consulting very closely with and were doing all the research to make sure we get it rightas well as producing boyega will also return as gang leader moses his breakout role in 2011s attack the block the sequels plot details are being kept tightly under wraps but the original film followed a group of teenagers who have to defend themselves from dangerous alien invaders who attack their south london council estate cornish continued this very afternoon i spent two hours interviewing someone whose life intersects with one element of the story and when were done here im gonna go home and transcribe that so were doing our due diligence in building the screenplay and taking the same amount of care we took with the first one but were very very quietly confident and excited about what weve got we think about alien and aliens and terminator and terminator 2 and we wanna take a shot at doing our version of what people did for those movieswhile we wait for attack the block 2 to arrive on our screens check out our picks of the other most exciting upcoming movies on the way in 2023 and beyond