Onerous as it might be to consider, it’s already been 13 years since Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Edgar Wright’s live-action movie adaptation of the favored indie comics collection by Bryan Lee O’Malley. Whereas a sequel was often bandied about after the film debuted, at this level the unique forged could be a bit previous to play the misadventures of a gaggle of 20something slackers/rockers.
However hey, folks’s voices don’t change a lot, if in any respect in 13 years. So how about persevering with the franchise as an animated collection?
That’s precisely what we’re getting. Titled Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, the brand new anime collection coming to Netflix was govt produced by Wright and written by O’Malley and BenDavid Grabinski. And it options nearly the entire unique movie’s forged, together with Michael Cera as Scott, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona, Chris Evans as Lucas Lee, Brie Larson as Envy Adams, Satya Bhabha as Matthew Patel, Kieran Culkin as Wallace, Anna Kendrick as Stacey Pilgrim, and Ellen Wong as Knives Chau.
You’ll be able to see the primary teaser for the present beneath:
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The trailer is enjoyable as a result of it actually seems to be prefer it combines the aesthetic and forged of the film with O’Malley‘s drawing model from the unique Scott Pilgrim graphic novels. When the challenge was first introduced, right here was what Wright needed to say about it:
One of many proudest and most pleasant achievements of my profession was assembling and dealing with the dynamite forged of Scott Pilgrim. Because the movie’s launch in 2010 we’ve achieved Q&A’s, remembrances and charity learn throughs, however there was by no means the event to reunite the entire gang on an precise challenge. Till now… Unique creator Bryan Lee O’Malley, together with author BenDavid Grabinski have conjured up an anime collection of Scott Pilgrim that doesn’t simply broaden the universe, but additionally…effectively, simply watch it. I’m very happy to announce that I’ve helped coax your complete unique forged again to voice their characters on this epic new journey. You might be in for a deal with.
Listed here are extra official photographs from the present:
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off will premiere on Netflix on November 17.
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