The upcoming anime series is looking more and more like a recreation of a 2010 movie. With all of its major flaws still in place.
The long awaited anime adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim — Scott Pilgrim Takes Off — is just around the corner. And at the first glance everything seems to be looking more than promising — O’Malley himself is doing all the writing and is even serving as an executive producer/showrunner which is a very good sign. The visuals, that have been recently showcased by Netflix in a small teaser promo, look impressive with some shots being a pretty much spot on recreation of the comic panels. Yet something is not right.
First worries came when the fans learned that another executive producer for the show will be none other than Edgar Wright — a director and co-writer of the fascinating but ultimately lackluster and not-that-faithful-to-the-original 2010 live-action adaptation of Scott Pilgrim. It is not exactly clear why it was necessary to bring on board a director who has already fired his shot and has arguably missed pretty hard when it comes to doing Scott Pilgrim justice on the big screen.
Don’t get us wrong — Edgar Wright is undoubtedly a very big name, but all of his best hits are at this point at least a decade old with his recent years being plagued by inactivity, scandals (his feud with Marvel) and a string of less-than-impressive projects.
And with the recent announcements we’ve also come to learn that Mr. Wright is not the only one who is making a return to the anime from the 2010 movie — it’s the whole cast. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aubrey Plaza, Anna Kendrick, Chris Evans, Kieran Culkin and, of course, Michael Cera as Scott Pilgrim himself — everybody is back to once again play their respective characters.
This is where a lot of fans start to get very worried because now it’s really looking like what we will be ultimately getting is a 2.0 version of the 2010 movie. A movie that, despite doing a lot of fun and clever things with its characters and visuals, have failed to live up to the hype of the original comic, and, more importantly, failed to properly recreate its central characters — Scott Pilgrim and Ramona Flowers.
Thus, despite having many things going for it, the upcoming anime adaptation of Scott Pilgrim has some incredibly tough uphill climbing to do, if it wants to truly impress its fans.
The upcoming anime series is looking more and more like a recreation of a 2010 movie. With all of its major flaws still in place.
The long awaited anime adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim — Scott Pilgrim Takes Off — is just around the corner. And at the first glance everything seems to be looking more than promising — O’Malley himself is doing all the writing and is even serving as an executive producer/showrunner which is a very good sign. The visuals, that have been recently showcased by Netflix in a small teaser promo, look impressive with some shots being a pretty much spot on recreation of the comic panels. Yet something is not right.
First worries came when the fans learned that another executive producer for the show will be none other than Edgar Wright — a director and co-writer of the fascinating but ultimately lackluster and not-that-faithful-to-the-original 2010 live-action adaptation of Scott Pilgrim. It is not exactly clear why it was necessary to bring on board a director who has already fired his shot and has arguably missed pretty hard when it comes to doing Scott Pilgrim justice on the big screen.
Don’t get us wrong — Edgar Wright is undoubtedly a very big name, but all of his best hits are at this point at least a decade old with his recent years being plagued by inactivity, scandals (his feud with Marvel) and a string of less-than-impressive projects.
And with the recent announcements we’ve also come to learn that Mr. Wright is not the only one who is making a return to the anime from the 2010 movie — it’s the whole cast. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aubrey Plaza, Anna Kendrick, Chris Evans, Kieran Culkin and, of course, Michael Cera as Scott Pilgrim himself — everybody is back to once again play their respective characters.
This is where a lot of fans start to get very worried because now it’s really looking like what we will be ultimately getting is a 2.0 version of the 2010 movie. A movie that, despite doing a lot of fun and clever things with its characters and visuals, have failed to live up to the hype of the original comic, and, more importantly, failed to properly recreate its central characters — Scott Pilgrim and Ramona Flowers.
Thus, despite having many things going for it, the upcoming anime adaptation of Scott Pilgrim has some incredibly tough uphill climbing to do, if it wants to truly impress its fans.
