John Boyega Teases a Reunion with ‘Attack the Block’ Director Joe Cornish

John Boyega in ‘Attack the Block’ (AP Photo/Sony Screen Gems)

John Boyega is a busy man. Fresh off his galaxy-conquering efforts as stormtrooper–turned–hero Finn in last December’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the 24-year-old actor has lined up an impressive array of upcoming movies, including opposite Tom Hanks and Emma Watson in The Circle, the highly anticipated Pacific Rim 2 (in which he’ll play the son of Idris Elba’s military commander), and Kathryn Bigelow’s still-untitled drama about the 1967 Detroit riots — her long-awaited follow-up to 2012’s Zero Dark Thirty. And if the actor has his way, he may also be soon reuniting with the director who gave him his breakthrough role.

In a recent tweet (seen above), Boyega reveals that he’s been talking with his Attack the Block helmer Joe Cornish about an as-yet-unspecified future project. Whether that means we could eventually have a sequel to that 2011 indie hit — about a London street gang that winds up having to contend with an alien invasion — is anybody’s guess, though Cornish previously told Collider that his leading man has routinely come up with promising ideas for a potential second series installment: “He has this image of a bigger alien attack on London, as if the attack we saw in Attack the Block was just the [first] wave and there’s another wave of bigger creatures. And he described to me this image of Moses [Boyega’s character] leading a whole army of hood kids across the Thames, next to the houses of Parliament.“

Whatever Boyega and Cornish are cooking up, it’ll undoubtedly appear long after the actor has filled out his résumé with the above films — as well as, of course, Star Wars: Episode VIII, which is currently filming, and is set for a December 15, 2017, release.

Watch the ‘Attack the Block’ trailer: