And then I lay in wait until ‘8 Million Ways to Die in the West’ came out, or whatever it was called, and I rubbed my hands with glee. I’ve never liked Seth MacFarlane, because that weekend he tweeted ‘Scott Pilgrim 0, the World 2.’ I was like, fuck you. Wright added, “It’s that thing where it becomes a bit of a punch line. And I thought - naively - I thought, ‘Well, it’s only Friday morning, how could they know?’ They know. “It opened the same weekend as ‘The Expendables’ and ‘Eat Pray Love.’ I remember getting an email from Marc Platt, one of the film’s producers, on the Friday asking Universal to put more into the spend and predicting doom for the weekend. But that didn’t translate initially,” Wright said of the box office debut to Entertainment Weekly. “It got good reviews, and all the people who were coming to the Q&A’s were really loving it and fervent about it. On the film’s 10th anniversary in 2020, Wright reflected on the legacy of “Scott Pilgrim.” Director Wright is currently executive producing a “Scott Pilgrim” anime series for Netflix, created by comic book writer O’Malley. the World” only grossed $49.3 million against its $85 million budget overall but has since accumulated a cult following. Jason Schwartzman, Chris Evans, Kieran Culkin, Mae Whitman, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, and Alison Pill also star in the 2010 film.īased on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel series, “Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World” stars Michael Cera as the titular Toronto bassist who dumps his high school girlfriend (Ellen Wong) for an elusive manic pixie dream girl (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), who is followed by a League of Evil Exes whom Scott must defeat to win her heart. There Was a Time Edgar Wright Was Mistaken for Paul RuddĪubrey Plaza Responds to 'Tomb Raider' Fan Casting: I'm Open to Playing the 'Original Badass'Ģ023 Oscars: Best Supporting Actress Predictionsħ New Netflix Shows in October 2022 - and the Best Reasons to Watch Most of my favorite films that are considered classics today were not considered hits in their time.”Įdgar continued, “You can point to hundreds of classic movies, whether it’s ‘Citizen Kane’ or ‘Blade Runner’ or ‘The Big Lebowski.’ So how a film does in its first three days is never the end of the story, and the further we get away from that discourse about box office numbers being the totality of a movie, the better.” “Rating films by their box office is like the football fan equivalent to films. People shouldn’t buy into that idea,” Wright said in his BBC Maestro course, via The Hollywood Reporter. “I’ve said this to other filmmakers since who’ve maybe had a similar initial reaction to a film like ‘Scott Pilgrim’ did, is that the three-day weekend is not the end of the story for any movie. Wright addressed the fan-favorite indie comic book adaptation film and its infamous opening weekend box office when reflecting on his career as a whole. Edgar Wright is no longer beholden to box office numbers after the release of “ Scott Pilgrim Vs.
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