Adam & Joe are national treasures
Their late 90s Channel 4 show and their radio shows on XFM and BBC 6 Music are all cult classics.
In 2011, Joe Cornish made his film debut, directing the great Attack The Block, about a group of kids who defend their South London estate from invading extraterrestrials. It took the spirit of great 1980s kids adventure movies like The Monster Squad and The Goonies, and updated them with a modern twist.
It also launched the career of one John Boyega – who you might recognize from those movies about wars in space with the laser swords and stuff. And it featured Jodie Whittaker, before she became Doctor Who
It got great reviews, and singled out Cornish as a director to watch. But that was seven years ago, and we haven’t had another movie since. There have been he could be making everything from a Star Trek movie to adapting the cyberpunk novel Snow Crash.
Now, finally, we have the trailer for his second movie, The Kid Who Would Be King.
Much like Attack The Block, it looks like another kid-based spin on familiar genre tropes – this time feeling like Grange Hill meets Game of Thrones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKs7vYl_bAE
The official synopsis reads:
Old school magic meets the modern world in the epic adventure The Kid Who Would Be King. Alex thinks he’s just another nobody, until he stumbles upon the mythical Sword in the Stone, Excalibur. Now, he must unite his friends and enemies into a band of knights and, together with the legendary wizard Merlin, take on the wicked enchantress Morgana. With the future at stake, Alex must become the great leader he never dreamed he could be.
The movie stars newcomer Ashbourne Serkis (the son of mo-cap specialist Andy Serkis), alongside Patrick Stewart and Rebecca Ferguson.
The Kid Who Would Be King is out January 25th, 2019.
