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Actor: Attack the Block. Leeon Jones is known for Attack the Block (2011) and Irpinia (2023).
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- May 12, 1993
May 7, 2011 · Three others are newcomers, plucked from school workshops and drama groups around London. Leeon Jones is 17, the shyest.
- A Real Mugging Inspired Attack The Block.
- Attack The Block Takes Place on Guy Fawkes night.
- The Director of Attack The Block Was Inspired by The Tower Blocks of London.
- John Carpenter Was A Big Influence on The Attack The Block and Its Soundtrack.
Years before making Attack the Block, director Joe Cornish was mugged in south London. The gang of kids took his wallet and cellphone. The incident stayed with him, and 10 years later he filmed a similar, albeit more dramatic, mugging for the opening scene of his directorial debut, Attack the Block. But Cornish didn’t want to treat the muggers—the ...
The opening shot features fireworks over London. That’s because the movie takes place on Guy Fawkes Night(November 5). The fireworks add to the general chaos of the night, and the crafty aliens presumably chose the night to cover their own arrival.
Tower blocks and council estates feature regularly in gritty British cinema. And while the tower blocks in Attack the Block are totally appropriate for the movie’s setting and themes, they also inspired Cornish in other ways: “I totally looked at all these amazing tower blocks that have been around me all my life and I thought ‘Wow, these are like ...
Cornish is a big fan of John Carpenter and particularly his 1976 film Assault on Precinct 13. Like Carpenter, he wanted to create a fun movie that also had a social subtext. The music in Carpenter’s films also inspired Attack the Block. In an interviewat New York Comic Con, Cornish said “we studied John Carpenter and one of the things that I notice...
Jun 21, 2021 · As the (relative) brains of the outfit, Leeon Jones' Jerome was the most "academically inclined" of the boys. Still, that didn't save him from meeting a grisly end at the claws of...
May 13, 2011 · Attack the Block: Directed by Joe Cornish. With Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Leeon Jones. A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion.
South London teenagers (John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Leeon Jones) defend their neighborhood from malevolent extraterrestrials.
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