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Joe Cor­nish is back with a fan­ta­sy action-adven­ture film

08 May 2017

Words by Amy Bowker

A man with short brown hair looking directly at the camera, against a blurred yellow background.
A man with short brown hair looking directly at the camera, against a blurred yellow background.
The Attack the Block direc­tor is ready­ing his sec­ond fea­ture, The Kid Who Would Be King.

It’s been six long years since Joe Cor­nish dropped his direc­to­r­i­al debut Attack the Block, a sci-fi thriller in which aliens ter­rorise a block of coun­cil flats in South London.

From achiev­ing cult suc­cess in tele­vi­sion with his long-term cohort Adam Bux­ton, to work­ing on screen­plays for the likes of Edgar Wright and Steven Spiel­berg, Cor­nish has excelled at what­ev­er he has turned his hand to. It’s a won­der we’ve had to wait until now for news of a sec­ond fea­ture from him.

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Attack the Block intro­duced the film world to British actor John Boye­ga, who sub­se­quent­ly shot to star­dom as Finn in Star Wars: The Force Awak­ens. Accord­ing to The Kid Who Would Be King cast­ing direc­tor Jes­si­ca Ronane’s recent post on Twit­ter, Cor­nish will once more be look­ing to unearth some tal­ent­ed young actors.

The tweet announces an open call for ​“con­fi­dent, smart kids of all shapes and sizes” for the lead roles, describ­ing the film as ​“a fam­i­ly fan­ta­sy action-adven­ture movie about a band of young kids embark­ing on an epic quest to thwart a medieval menace.”

Cor­nish has writ­ten the script and the film is being pro­duced by Work­ing Title and Big Talk Pic­tures (the lat­ter of which backed Attack the Block). The Kid Who Would Be King is set to begin shoot­ing this sum­mer in the UK, which sug­gests a 2018 release date.

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