Attack the Block at Somerset House with Joe Cornish

Before Joe Cornish took the stage to introduce ‘Attack the Block’ on Saturday night at Somerset House, we managed to grab a few words with him.

How is Ant-Man going?

We have just handed in our last script

Is that your 3rd draft now?

Yep, and we have handed in some concept art and drawings of ‘Ant-Man’.

Has the concept art been based on anyone?

Yep, ‘Ant-Man’.

Ha, ha, I mean any particular actor you guys might have in mind?

No, I can’t say anything on that.

Is ‘Ant-Man’ set in the current MARVEL universe?

I’m not allowed to tell you, sorry man.

Have you seen ‘Captain America’ yet?

Yep.

And what did you think?

I thought is was fantastic, didn’t you? It’s right up there with the first Iron Man film.

We loved the first half, but felt it was pedestrian after that…

Joe Johnston has been fantastic on it and Chris Evans was amazing as ‘Captain America’, like Robert was ‘Iron Man’.

We can’t argue with that.

The effects were great, and when they shrunk him down, that was the best effects work I’ve ever seen on screen, I couldn’t see a single glitch.

It did look amazing. Well, thank you Joe and we’re looking forward to everything ‘Ant-Man’, and good luck with it.

Thanks

Not much was given away of course, but it did feel like Joe was obligated to say good things about MARVEL films, as what he said about Captain Amercia was almost a standard issue press release, which falls out of the mouth of every director and writer associated with the superhero studio.

On ‘Ant-Man’, it felt like it wasn’t going to be linked to the current MARVEL Universe, as Joe face seemed to give this impression.

All in all, we’re very much looking forward to seeing what Joe does with this project.