Looks like Edgar Wright’s (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) third theatrical film will indeed be an adaptation of the Oni Press Graphic novel Scott Pilgrim’s Little Life – his first movie on American soil and first with a U.S. cast.
Two months ago we heard Michael Cera would lead as Pilgrim, the young slacker who meets the woman of his dreams but finds that he can only win her heart by battling and defeating her seven evil ex-boyfriends.
Now Wright has found the woman he needs to be every boy’s fantasy in the film. And she is one hell of a choice. The talented and extremely beautiful Mary Elizabeth Winstead is in final talks for the picture…
You will know Winstead from the male demographic movies of Live Free or Die Hard, Death Proof and a couple of horrors with Final Destination 3 and Black Christmas.
She has shown she has heaps of talent… I remember being extremely impressed by her in FD-3 even – she really kept me awake during what was terrible script material to work with.
She reminded me of a young Jamie Lee Curtis with her slighty tom-boy ish looks and slight vulnerability in her eyes but her body posture exudes so much confidence in herself, something Curtis would only finally get used to later in her career.
Wright wrote the adaptation of the Oni Press Graphic Novel with actor Michael Bacal, who is also the guy working on the fictional remake of the popular 2007 documentary King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.
The film will be Wright’s first straight material – i.e. not a homage/parody movie with his buddies. He has said recently he doesn’t want to be seen as “that British director” and this is his first step to achieving that goal.
The movie will be titled Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and it should be out sometime next year.
source – the hollywood reporter
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he doesn’t want to be seen as “that British director” is rubbish motivation for making an american film. i read ’sell-out’, just like Pegg has become. however his Jon Ronson film idea ‘Them’ sounds much more like the sort of interesting material he ought to be challenging himself with – neither British nor American, just good.
PS. though I agree Mary Elizabeth Winstead is HOT :-)
What I think Wright meant was that he didn’t want to be just that British director but not American either.
He wanted to have the status of a Alfred Hitchcock, a Stanley Kubrick, a Sam Mendes… where they can float in and out and are just what they are… great directors.
Are you serious? Sam Mendes maybe, but he aint gonna be in the class of Hitch or Stanley if his films so far are anything to go by… He’s def got the talent but not sure about the depth of vision. Personally I rate him in the top 3 best Brit directors (with Winterbottom and Glazer). I just hope he one day tries to make a film with the originality and wit of Spaced, instead of half-arsed genre films.
Again Paul… “status” not “talent”.
Just the fact that no-one ever saw Hitch as a British director. He was just Hitch.
Same with Kubrick.
Same with Mendes.
Whereas someone like Guy Ritchie is very much branded with the English tag. Wright wants to be able to float in and out of English and American films.
But he is uber talented. And there was nothing half-arsed about SHAUN OF THE DEAD or HOT FUZZ.
“there was nothing half-arsed about SHAUN OF THE DEAD or HOT FUZZ.”
i think they were OK. nothing more.
Oh and by the way, Stanley Kubrick was American not British
what ? can you believe this ? Winstead will lead as Ramona …!!! i’m sure she will look so pretty. why she have to act with michael cera ? what ’bout ryan merriman or michael angarano ?