Aug 6 2010 Click the Crap Out of the Interactive 'Scott Pilgrim' Trailer
At last, I'm rewarded for arbitrarily clicking all over the screen all the time. Yahoo has put up the same old trailer for Scott Pilgrim, but this time they're calling it "interactive" because madly clicking on it gives you director commentary, behind-the-scenes featurettes, and relevant Pop-Up Video factoids--and at the end, you get some sort of reward, like a wallpaper or something. It's just like your grandparents' vague notion of what a video game is!
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Jun 30 2010 Come On, Edgar Wright, Get Going on 'Ant-Man'
Speaking to BoxOfficeMagazine, writer/director Edgar Wright finally gave an update and brief description of his long-talked-about adaptation of Marvel comics hero Ant-Man. Don't worry, guys, it's still happening--assuming Marvel hasn't had a change of heart about the viability of a movie about a shrinking man who communicates with bugs:
I haven't actually started the second draft yet--I'm not going to be able to until this film [Scott Pilgrim] is out--but what we wrote for the first draft, and what Marvel really liked, is that it's funny, but it's a genre film. It's about the level of comedy that Iron Man has. The idea is to make a high-concept genre film where it's within another genre. His suit and its power is the big gadget and it takes place in the real world. I just wanted to do something that was slightly different than the superhero origin film. I felt that between that and the various mad scientist, crazy doctor films that we've all seen, this would be a way into an origin that was slightly different. I'm not really a multi-tasker--I haven't done anything since Marvel liked our first draft.
Please hurry up with this. We need to get this in production before Marvel starts asking stupid questions like, "Should we really be making literally every superhero we can think of into a multimillion dollar film?"
(via)
Jun 21 2010 Something for Your iPodphone: The 'Scott Pilgrim' Soundtrack is Probably Pretty Solid
According to Pitchfork (and confirmed by director Edgar Wright's linking), Beck will writing the songs for Pilgrim's band SEX BOB-OMB, Broken Social Scene will be providing the tunes for fictional band Crash and the Boys, and the whole soundtrack will look something like this ear snack:
01 SEX BOB-OMB (Beck): "We Are SEX BOB-OMB"02 Plumtree: "Scott Pilgrim"
03 Frank Black: "I Heard Ramona Sing"
04 Beachwood Sparks: "By Your Side"
05 Black Lips: "O Katrina!"
06 Crash and the Boys (Broken Social Scene): "I'm So Sad, So Very, Very Sad"
07 Crash and the Boys (Broken Social Scene): "We Hate You Please Die"
08 SEX BOB-OMB (Beck): "Garbage Truck"
09 T. Rex: "Teenage Dream"
10 The Bluetones: "Sleazy Bed Track"
11 Blood Red Shoes: "It's Getting Boring by the Sea"
12 Metric: "Black Sheep"
13 SEX BOB-OMB (Beck): "Threshold"
14 Broken Social Scene: "Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl"
15 The Rolling Stones: "Under My Thumb"
16 Beck: "Ramona (Acoustic)"
17 Beck: "Ramona"
18 SEX BOB-OMB (Beck): "Summertime"
19 Brian LeBarton: "Threshold 8 Bit"
The perfect playlist for an afternoon picnic or the party where you're trying to aggressively assert that you bought the Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World soundtrack.
Jun 17 2010 'Scott Pilgrim' International Trailer: Enjoy!
New trailer for Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World with a bunch of new footage, everyone. Will this be the one that pushes you into overexposure arbitrary backlash? Nah, you'll love it.
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Jun 7 2010 Scott Pilgrim Fighting Some Guys with Skateboards
If you watched the MTV Movie Awards Pre-Show (also known as MTV Giving You One Last Chance to Not Watch the MTV Movie Awards), then you probably saw the clip from Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, featuring the titular character fighting skater-turned-actor Lucas Lee and his legion of stunt doubles. If not--Happy Monday!--it's time to watch someone finally break a skateboard over Michael Cera's hangdog face:
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Jun 1 2010 New 'Scott Pilgrim' Trailer: Our Meek Lil' Michael Cera Finally Gets to Beat Some Dudes Up
We have so much to catch up from this holiday weekend, guys. Let's get right into it with a new trailer for Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. Like Matthew Vaughn did with Kick-Ass earlier this year, Edgar Wright appears to have made a film both faithful enough to the comic to please purist fanboys and broadly entertaining enough to engage anyone willing to give it a chance. Thus, it will likely debut in fourth place--sandwiched between Eat, Pray, Love and the second week of Step-Up 3-D--and quickly fade into cultural obscurity before it can make half its budget back. Though fortune favors the bold, that saying never accounted for the star power of Julia Roberts.
Mar 25 2010 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World' Teaser Is Pretty Great
For those that have read the Scott Pilgrim comics, you'll be pleased to see Edgar Wright has somehow made the most beautifully literal translation of comic to film imaginable. For those that haven't, you'll be pleased to see Michael Cera and Jason Schwartzman duel with a flame katana and a pixel light saber (respectively).
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Mar 1 2010 Hear Some 'Scott Pilgrim' Soundtrack Using Facebooks
Do you have that Facebook? (If so, log in now by typing "facebook login" in Google; as far as I know, that's the only way.) Want to hear a song from the soundtrack of Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim adaptation? Then you're in luck. Actual Canadian band Metric, who provide the music for the film's fictional Canadian band The Clash at Demonhead, has put up a track on their Facebook page. The catch? You must declare yourself a fan! Your friends are going to be all like, "o cool u like metric me to," and you don't even like them that much! What a world.
Feb 9 2010 Ant-Man Movie (Seemingly) Not Dead
With so much talk of Iron Men, Thors, Captain Americas, and Avengers, what's going on with the movie about the costumed man who can shrink and communicate with the insect world that Edgar Wright was going to do? Still going ahead, claims Stan Lee on the Twitter!:
Marvel is prepping a movie starring-- Ant Man!I had lunch with the cool , young director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) and, as you’d imagine, we had fun discussing the tiny hero
Phew.
(via /Film)
Jan 7 2010 Michael Cera Killing Some Guys with a Flaming Katana
From the final battle of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (spoilers!), here's Michael Cera wielding a katana that is on fire as Jason Schwartzman and Mary Elizabeth Winstead look on. If you would like to purchase one of these fire swords, they will be available for purchase at 4 AM, when a man named Mr. Odell will be selling them after a basic cable station goes off the air and is replaced by a bizarre, low budget shop-at-home station that sells literally hundreds of knives for $50.
(Bigger here. Thanks, Carter.)
Nov 16 2009 Edward Woodward Dies at 79
Edward Woodward, the British thespian not at all related to the Watergate scandal, died today at 79. The actor is probably best known for his role as sergeant Neil Howie in The Wicker Man (it turns out there was a Wicker Man before Nic Cage's), though some may remember him for his Golden Globe-winning part in The Equalizer, from the the British spy series Callan, or, more recently, for his part in Hot Fuzz.
Director Edgar Wright has written a fine memorial here. Burn a woven twig effigy in the Woodward name tonight.
Oct 20 2009 Hot, Official 'Hot Fuzz' Slash Fiction
Since the advent of the internet, finding homoerotic fan fiction has become a breeze for all interested in homoerotic fan fiction (little known fact: the first information sent over a modem was a short story about Kirk and Spock falling in love). But official homoerotic fiction written by the original creators!? Preposterous!
OR SO YOU THOUGHT. At last, your slash fiction dream has come true: a couple days ago Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost tweeted a pseudo-sequel to Hot Fuzz in the style of homoerotic fanfiction, and it's loaded with steamy, seductive lines like...
Danny wanted to tell Angel that from some angles he looked a bit like Paul Walker. He’d tell him one day…One day.
and
”Have you seen the notebook?” asked Angel, searching furiously in the glove compartment. “Many times” replied Danny fondly.
Read the whole thing here. It's pretty much safe for work, as long as your co-workers won't mind your swooning.
Jul 10 2009 Where is My Ant-Man, Wright?
Bad news for those of us anxiously awaiting the size-altering, insect-communicating portion of Marvel's never-ending superhero movie line-up. Speaking to Empire, writer/director Edgar Wright revealed he hopes to move from his in-production film, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, to a film called Baby Driver, thus putting off his adaptation of Ant-Man and the finale to the Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy:
"I’d like to make Baby Driver next if possible," he told us. "On this film and other things I’ve been blogging furiously and putting up a photo every day, but I think when I do that one I’d like to go completely silent for once. Probably because it’s not an adaptation or anything, or a sequel to anything else. I’d like to just make it in private, basically."We hoped that this might be a tale about a baby driving stuff around, but Wright set us straight: "No, you’re thinking of Baby Transporter, which is the Muppet Babies of the Transporter series." Instead, a quick online search showed that this is in fact a "a wild spin on the action and crime genre which will be set in the US.”
So is this going to be next on Wright's To Do list? Well, looks like. "Simon’s [Pegg] not involved in Pilgrim. And I was kind of involved with Paul as a producer at the start, but basically I can’t be in two places at once. I’m not one of those people who can do three things at the same time, even though I try to be. So once I’m doing one thing, like this, I’m only doing this. Other things – like Ant-Man and me and Simon’s next film – have all gone away until I’m done with this."
God, what do I have to do to see a movie about a crime-fighting scientist who use his skills to invent technologies that enable him to shrink and a helmet that allows him to control ants? I've waited long enough, world.
Jun 12 2009 New from 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World': It's Kim Pine
On Edgar Wright's blog, the director has posted the the first shot of Alison Pill in-costume as Kim Pine for a scene in Scott Pilgrim vs the World. The Leeloo-haired character is Pilgrim's friend and fellow musician in the band Sex Bob-Omb, but I'm sure that if you didn't know that then you probably don't care anyway. Because what do you care about, anyway? Love? Humanity? It doesn't seem like it sometimes.
May 27 2009 'Scott Pilgrim' Blog Six: The Fighting One
Hey, it's director Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World video diary #6: fight scene edition. Learn how stunt men practice with a really giant hammer while the kid from Hotel for Dogs sits around backstage! See production on the comic book adaptation first-hand from the comfort of your workplace/home/cell! That's internet power:
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May 18 2009 Nitpicky Nerds Have Nothing on 'Scott Pilgrim'
Edgar Wright has posted another video blog update on the progress of his Scott Pilgrim adaptation, and once again I'm astounded by the ridiculous detail he's gone through to accurately replicate the wardrobe, locations, and even exact panels from the graphic novel series. Like Sin City and Watchmen, this looks like it's going to be a movie where you'll want to make sure to read the comics beforehand so, later, you can experience the joy of smacking your friend's arms in the theater and shouting, "Holy shit, that's just like that part in the comic!" Except your friend doesn't even know what you're talking about; they've had The Dark Knight Returns borrowed for about a year-and-a-half and it's obvious they aren't going to read it or any of your other recommendations. What an asshole.
May 1 2009 New 'Scott Pilgrim' Blog Reveals Stars Live Nothing Like Us
On the official Scott Pilgrim vs. The World blog, a third video blog has been posted, this one focusing on director Edgar Wright and his cast and crew doing their first week on location in Toronto. Honestly, it isn't particularly interesting save for one fact the costume designer let slip: to help deal with the psychosomatic chill that results from working around fake snow, the actors were offered silk long underwear. SILK! The most luxurious fabric ever made! So I hope that keeps you warm, your majesties, because the entire long underwear budget probably went to making sure your legs were comfortable, and now the rest of the crew has to wear long johns made of loosely woven human hair. Does that make you feel like a big man, Michael Cera?
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Apr 13 2009 Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Vlog
Hey, everyone, there's now an official Scott Pilgrim vs. the World blog--WITH VIDEO. And that's in addition to director Edgar Wright's daily photo blog! We Scott Pilgrim fans are going to need one of those browsers that can do the tabbing just to keep up with all this Pilgrim stuff!
Below the cut, Wright's first video blog (I call them "vlogs"):
Mar 4 2009 'Scott Pilgrim' Movie Still Accurately Recreating 'Scott Pilgrim' Comic
It's been a few days since we last saw anything from the set of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, so let's take a moment to gaze upon how Edgar Wright is effectively replicating panels from the books. Rear-view-on-swings recreation accuracy has prevailed. We did it.
The lower, sagging swing is a nice touch, though the implication that Michael Cera needs prop assistance in looking awkward is absurd. If Cera were angrily shouting from the balcony of a castle, Pope-style, he would still be pitiable.
From: Edgar Wright Here.
Feb 25 2009 Ann Not as Bland in War Paint
"That's Ann, from Arrested Development!?" you ask in disbelief before spouting out some quotes about mayonnaise and calling her "Egg".
"Yes, it is," I reply. "She has a role as Roxy Richter in Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, but if you haven't read it, I'd be feeding you the spoilers if I told you more than that."
"I just blue myself," you say, because you aren't paying attention and now you've moved on to Tobias quotes.
February 24th, 2009 [Edgar Wright Here]