I could honestly watch this all day.
The delivery of certain lines from the books is so dead-on, it’s uncanny. This is getting exciting!
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gallery about rss archive| Friday | June 18th | 2010 |
I could honestly watch this all day.
The delivery of certain lines from the books is so dead-on, it’s uncanny. This is getting exciting!
| Friday | June 11th | 2010 |
Scott Pilgrim the videogame. It will rock your face. Face. Rocking.
| Saturday | March 27th | 2010 |
So yeah there’s a movie being made out of Scott Pilgrim. I believe we’re all aware of that and how potentially cool that’s going to be. Even cooler(?), however, is that there is going to be a videogame adaptation. Not just any, however! One which will feature music by the awesome Anamanaguchi (video above from the debut of the theme at their PAX East concert) and some fantastic sprite work by Paul Robertson (of Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight). There are two screenshots of the video accompaniment to the performance below!
The game will be released on PSN and XBLA probably around the same time as the movie.
| Monday | March 8th | 2010 |
| Wednesday | December 16th | 2009 |
Eeeheehee! It’s really coming! It’s like they’re real people, or something! Rumors in the intertubes say the Scott Pilgrim movie is now in post production, and is slated for release in 2010. Good thing, too, since the final volume of the comic is also slated for release at the very same time. Which will be first, hmm?
| Monday | June 15th | 2009 |
Scott Pilgrim vs The World is in the midst of shooting, for a 2010 release. Most of the Cloudherders are fans of the little indie comic, so we’re understandably trepidatious about how film is going to mangle our fun.
However, as previously discussed on the blog, the film is in pretty good hands: Edgar Wright, the director of Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead is at the helm. He’s been posting little vids on the movie’s official site, and above is one of the most interesting. Author Bryan Lee O’Malley has included meticulously drawn site-specific streets, stores and homes from Toronto in the comic, and this 3 minute video demonstrates how the film is shooting on location at some of those exact places. The care with which these locations are being chosen and shot makes me breathe a huge sigh of relief: maybe we can start to uncross our fingers?
| Friday | March 13th | 2009 |
It seems like we spend a lot of time hyping Bryan Lee O’Malley’s “Scott Pilgrim” series, which strikes me as a little funny, since I’m only a casual fan of it. However, since there’s lots of news about it—between the in-production movie and new trades coming out left and right—it keeps on showing up.
Without further caveats, above is where you can read a 17 page Scott Pilgrim story online, free. (Scroll on down to “Special: Free Scott Pilgrim,” below Volume 4. And, of course, when finished you can read excerpts from the trades, too!) If you know a bit about the series but haven’t plunked down $12 to buy the first trade, you can check out this sampler story that doesn’t have terribly too much to do with the main plot. In this short story, Scott, his girlfriend and his roommate attempt to go see a gay cowboy movie, but get distracted when someone surprising picks a fight with Scott…
| Wednesday | January 28th | 2009 |
Scott Pilgrim #5 is available for pre-order, and it looks like they’ve got a cover image up. I’m excited! Here’s presumably an older version of the cover, with more hoodie and more angry.
Also, this is the largest image I could find, unfortunately.
| Wednesday | January 21st | 2009 |
Well, looks like casting has been all but finalized for the Scott Pilgrim vs the World movie, based on the humble and entertaining comic of the same name. The good news is that Edgar Wright is at the helm, the young Brit behind Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, so at least the folk behind the cameras will have the requisite weird humor to tackle the project.
The big names? Michael Cera (Arrested Development, all those Judd Apatow flicks) as the titular Scott Pilgrim, Kieran Culkin (Igby Goes Down) as his gay roommate and Brandon Routh (Superman) as one of the best evil boyfriends yet.
The lesser-to-unknowns: the rest of em. Ramona Flowers, Scott’s love interest, is played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who has been in a heckuva lot of action films according to her IMDB. Filling out the cast are a bunch of names that mean nothing much to me, but they’ll be playing such characters as Knives Chau, Stephen Stills, Envy Adams, and Julie the drummer. For a swank photo collage (though missing the main characters, oddly) go to series creator Bryan Lee O’Malley’s livejournal.
(:snrk: Livejournal, yep.)
What does this all say for the film? Who knows! This is an exceedingly young cast who are playing a bunch of mid-20somethings in Canada, adapted from a fairly low-profile graphic novel that bases its world on video game mechanics. It might turn out to be annoyingly mired in high-school style drama, it could completely hide its origins as a graphic novel with surrealistic video game combat and settings and suck out all the fun, or it could transcend its boundaries and be really freakin cool. We’ll see.
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