Wright has been posting regular tidbits from the production, and yesterday gifted Scott Pilgrim watchers with this apparent still from the film:

We skewed the photo a little to get the top image. It looks like we're getting a shot of Scott, Ramona, Young Neil, Knives Chau, Kim Pine, and Stephen Stills at a show at Lee's Palace.

Now that the actors are posed and in costume (albeit under reflective glass), do they look the way you'd hoped? Does Michael Cera fit the Scott Pilgrim role after all?

[Edgar Wright Here via /Film]

Paul follows the two geeky Brits on a journey across the United States, where they not only hit up San Diego Comic Con, but end up face-to-face with a real alien. Still no details about the alien's appearance, and last time we talked to cast member Bill Hader he was pretty mum on the details. Will it be CG, will it be someone in a suit, or just a human? Who knows. We do know it'll be voiced by Seth Rogen though.

Simon Pegg twittered this response to Collider's scoop:

Yep. That's us flanked by Blythe Damner and Kristen Wiig. It doesn't get much better than that sandwich-wise.

For a closer look at the horror on these hapless nerds' faces, check out the bigger image at Collider. Paul will hit theaters in 2010.

Talking to MTV's Splash Page, Schwartzman called the filming of Edgar Wright's adaptation of O'Malley's critically acclaimed series a surreal - but welcome - experience:

I've played people who have some villain-esque tendencies, but I've never played an-out-and-out enemy of the people before... It was incredible. I loved it. Basically, Michael Cera falls in love with a woman [and] in order to go out with her and win her affection, he must defeat her seven ex-evil boyfriends in a series of battles. And I am the final boyfriend; I'm the mastermind. And I am quite lethal.

But lethal to whom, exactly? Those of us reading the books know that the sixth in the series derailed the way the story seemed to be going, but will Scott get his fight with Schwartzman's Gideon Gordon Graves nonetheless? The actor says that, while he takes part in a wire-assisted swordfight, it's not what you might expect:

No, [I'm not fighting] Michael-somebody else... But I can't say who.

Set your speculation on stun: Ramona? Knives? Young Neil, emerging from his depression chrysalis in an action-packed new form? Or could it even be a Scott Pilgrim that isn't Michael Cera (If it's some CGI-generated Mecha-Pilgrim, color me stupidly excited)?

With Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World due next year, and the sixth and final book due out somewhere around the same time, it's going to be a long wait finding out... if the two stories even end in the same way.

Jason Schwartzman Describes His High-Flying 'Scott Pilgrim' Battle—And It's Not With Michael Cera! [MTV Splash Page]

The latest video from the set of Edgar Wright's adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's series of graphic novels about a boy who just so happens to fall for a girl who has seven evil exes he has to defeat in order to win the day shows the kind of work that goes on behind the scenes of those effortless movie party scenes:


Of course, you may be more interested in watching even more effort go into making one of the movies' superpowered fight scenes come to cinematic life:



(EvlSushi, this is for you.)

[Scott Pilgrim The Movie]

The first of the video diaries doesn't really reveal anything about the adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's series of graphic novels that we don't already know, but we do get to see some stunt rehearsal and training for some of the movie's many fight scenes, as well as find out more about Wright's facial hair dilemma:

Blog One - Introduction - Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World from Scott Pilgrim The Movie on Vimeo.

[Scott Pilgrim Versus The World]

The movie, Scott Pilgrim Versus The World, adapts the entirity of Bryan Lee O'Malley's award-winning Scott Pilgrim series of graphic novels - including the as-yet-unreleased fifth volume (Scott Pilgrim Versus The Universe, out next month) and the as-yet-unfinished untitled sixth - telling the complete story of twenty-something Scott Pilgrim, who has to defeat the seven ex-boyfriends of the object of his affections before he can date her. Or as complete as one movie can fit, at least. Michael Cera will play Scott, with Death Proof's Mary Elizabeth Winstead playing Ramona Flowers, she with the evil exes.

For those of us who adore the books, even Wright's immediately apparent awesomeness (Exhibit A: Spaced. Exhibit B: All of his movies. Should I continue?) wasn't enough to entirely dismiss fears that the movie won't live up to the original, but two pieces of casting news have gone a long way to quelling fears. Firstly, Chris Evans has signed on to play one of the evil ex-boyfriends, former pro-skateboarder-turned-actor and sellout Lucas Lee - And anyone who's ever seen either of the two Fantastic Four movies knows that he can do comedic egotistical asshole pretty well - but more excitingly, The United States of Tara's Brie Larson will play Envy Adams, Scott's ex, and, in Larson's words:

[T]he worst ex-girlfriend ever that you just can't get away from... [H]er basic purpose is to make his life miserable and she's a constant reminder of everything that he's not and he'll never be.

The fact that Envy is in the movie at all gives me stupidly nerdy hope that we'll get to see a cinematic version of this:

Scott Pilgrim Versus The World begins shooting later this year.

Edgar Wright Draws A Formidable Lucas Lee For SCOTT PILGRIM! [Ain't It Cool], Brie Larson: Meet "Tara's" Teen Daughter [Teen Hollywood] (Thanks, Bryan!)

Director Edgar Wright (Shaun Of The Dead) explained to Piq Magazine that the film will be yet another superhero origins story but different, "because you've seen so many of them and we really tried to figure out a fresh take on that story. So it's definitely a Marvel film but it's got a little twist on it in terms of the way that it plays out."

In the past, Wright has mentioned that the film combines two major characters. My guess is Lang and O'Grady because this way Marvel can feature both the Avengers (which Lang was a member of) and super-spy agency S.H.I.E.L.D. (which O'Grady worked for). Besides who doesn't want to see the creepy guy use his powers for his own dirty little mind, while trying to be a good guy on the side? Plus if Wright goes with the O'Grady story line, maybe we'll get to see him cross wits with old-timey thief the Black Fox. [Piq Magazine via Cinematical]

Ant-Man has a sort of troubled history, even by superhero standards. The original Ant-Man was Hank Pym, a mentally ill inventor who served in the Avengers and also created the Avengers' worst enemy, the robot Ultron. Then a reformed thief, Scott Lang, took over as Ant-Man in the early 1980s. More recently, a total asswipe named Eric O'Grady stole an Ant-Man suit and dicked his way around through a dozen issues of The Irredeemable Ant-Man.

So which Ant-Man will we see in the movie? Earlier, Wright had hinted that Ant-Man would be both the Hank Pym and the Scott Lang versions, but now he says:

It could be Scott Lang, it could be Hank Pym, it could be both - okay it is both, now there's an exclusive for you.

Henry Pym has had what can only be described as a "checkered" past in Marvel's history. After discovering a group of subatomic particles that he calls "Pym Particles," he uses them to shrink himself down to ant size and almost gets eaten by a nest of angry six-leggers. Later, he invents a cybernetic helmet that lets him control the ants (and other insects), and goes public as Ant-Man, leading swarms of insects into battle. It probably didn't help matters that his lab assistant Janet becomes The Wasp, and they later get married.

Henry later discovers that he can grow as well as shrink, and later becomes Giant-Man, then Goliath, then he went a bit mental and become Yellowjacket. He also created the robot Ultron who turned into a major baddie, and Ultron in turn created the android Vision to destroy Henry and the Avengers, but Vision ends up turning good. Oh, and the Vision's brain patterns were based on the then-deceased Wonder Man's, who was in love with Wanda, the Scarlet Witch. However, he returns (as all comic characters do) only to find out that Wanda and the Vision are romantically involved. Awwwwkward!

Pym laments the creation of Ultron constantly, has to deal with his wife leaving him, and in The Ultimates he's a prozac-taking crybaby who beats his wife. Boy, the Marvel writers sure love to beat up on this guy.

Anyhow, what's interesting about Wright's script is that it'll involve two Ant-Men, both Henry Pym and Scott Lang. Lang was a former thief hired by Stark Enterprises (nice work Tony) to help install a security system in the Avengers mansion (again, nice work Tony). When he daughter fell seriously ill, he stole Henry Pym's ant man costume and gear and busted out the only doctor (who was being held captive) who could help his daughter. Pym saw what he'd done, and let him keep the Ant-Man stuff. What a guy. Maybe he'd remembered his antidepressants that day.

Anyhow, Scott serves as Ant-Man for awhile, then later gets killed by Jack of Hearts. His daughter Cassie takes up the cause as Stature, although she can grow and shrink on her own, without the helmet. Apparently she'd absorbed enough Pym particles from being around her dad. Hope they aren't habit-forming. That left Marvel without an Ant-Man though, but rest assured that there's another one.

Enter Eric O'Grady, a low-level S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who decides to steal Pym's Ant-Man gear when he finds it at his company's headquarters. You think that after it's been stolen once, they might keep things locked up a bit tighter. He parades around as The Irredeemable Ant-Man, although his title was canceled after 12 issues. But either he or someone in the suit will be back, because Marvel really loves to hate this character. Wright's film will probably feature some Ant-Man vs. Ant-Man showdowns, which we wouldn't mind seeing, especially with his irreverent sense of humor. Time to start inhaling those Pym particles.

[ComicBookMovie]