News that's been making the rounds and we heard, but couldn't confirm until now: in the printed edition of Rolling Stone Mexico Japanese future-pop musician Cornelius confirmed he has recorded a new original song for Edgar Wright's highly anticipated adaptation of the graphic novel series "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World." The film's soundtrack may coincide with the release of Cornelius' still untitled upcoming album.
"I love to compose a complete soundtrack. Recently I made music for a Japanese [short] and composed an exclusive track for Edgar Wright's 'Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Word.' [But a full soundtrack] would be something interesting," he said.
The addition of Cornelius, is just the latest in an impressive line of indie-rock musicians that are making music and or are involved in the film. The line-up so far includes Beck, Canadian indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene, synth rockers Metric, Canadian favorites Sloan and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich who is serving as the soundtrack supervisor and producer.'Scott Pilgrim' is becoming a veritable cottage industry. Ubisoft is currently in the early stages of creating a video game, but don't scoff that this is one of those forced 360 marketing initiatives (even thought it might be), the 'Pilgrim' graphic novel stories are heavily steeped in video game culture so it makes perfect sense. The basic concept and premise? A slacker Canadian boy fighting seven ex-evil boyfriends to win the heart of a girl? It's not that much different from Super Mario Brother fighting through eight worlds (and eight big baddies) to get to the Princess.
As for the film coming out in summer 2010 as is the loose plan? It might be a tight turn-around. Series creator Bryan Lee O'Malley told reporters at Comic-Con that the project won't be finished until at least April. [Rolling Stone Mexico] - additional reporting by Arturo R. Jiménez, the author of the RS article.
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A Super Mario video game comparison for a samller film's marketing and synopsis? You guys have lost a lot of hope in your audience/readers. Or just too much comic-con coverage.
It's fun though to watch you unload your built up anger in the box-office reports.
This week: G-Force and The Ugly Truth take #1 and #2?
No clue what you're trying to say.
I know Scott Pilgrim is a comic book movie and that comparing the story, because of the video game tie-in, to Super Mario isn't a stretch.
But it's that this movie is getting a lot of attention from you guys, but it doesn't seem that interesting (granted the music line-up is pretty fresh). It seems like it's getting a pass already.
You've been really wary of "mainstream" movies like Avatar and Inglorious Basterds (granted, the hype is too big and Basterds isn't an action picture) that have these extraordinary media pushes with toys and video games attached (Avatar) to attract an audience.
Yet, Pilgrim, as you noted is becoming a "cottage industry". And no complaints or concerns?
It just seemed like the Super Mario comparison was a last resort way of defending the Pilgrim video game tie-in and the movie (what we've seen/heard of it).
Better. ;)
It's interesting to me for a couple reasons. 1)I liked the graphic novels a lot, much more than I expected to, 2) the music connections (though i'm not sure i personally love that type of music anymore 3)the script was strong and 4) even though I think Edgar Wright is generally very overrated, this might be the film that really hooks me. Who knows. I'm intrigued.
Ah, the media pushes. Yes, most are lame. I suppose I'm trying to say most of them are pretty dubious, but the video game tie-in does make perfect sense given the context of the graphic novel. And then I tried to explain it in layman's terms for those that might not have read it. There's a lot more specific tie-ins to videogames in the books, but i figured I'd re-mention that even the basic skeleton is sort of inspired from the basic classic narrative of most video games (beat a bunch of villains and save the girl).
I don't feel the need to defend this thing at all. It will be what it will be -- good? bad? who knows -- and since we do try and track music connections in films where we can (which seem to be less frequent and less interesting these days), we end up writing about this one a lot, that's all.
Fair enough. Thanks for the additional remarks.
I have only read about the Scott Pilgrim world and the movie being made on movie sites and knew nothing of the comics until then (especially the video game-like backbone). The video game connection is clearer now.
I thought that the Super Mario comparison was just as you said "layman's terms" but I might have read into it wrong, thinking:
"so to give the those whose minds have been flooded with comic book and video game movies an idea of what this comic/movie is like..."
My mistake.
I guess we'll see when the trailer comes out.
And I think a lot of people find that the media assault for many of the tentpoles and high profile movies are dubious, especially when the ads start a year in advance.
Yeah, i can see why ppl feel that way. I think they're only going to become more and more prevalent for anything remotely "geek" (these guys love to spend their cash on toys, figures, comics, dvds, video games, etc. - it's rather lucrative).
I personally think the Wild Things video game is one of the biggest stretches and is rather lame, but that doesn't necessarily effect my opinion of the film or my potential enjoyment of it if it's good.
The Wild Things movie does look great. It doesn't feel like they're trying to pander. The game is definitely going too far, but I agree it won't take away from the movie experience.
I don't mind that movies based on a comic/graphic-novel/book, with devoted fans get made, even when there is a too sincere effort to please this following.
The movies ultimately fail if they panders too much to the source's following (Watchmen) or if they don't care for making a good movie (Wolverine, many others) but there are obviously critical successes as well (Batman Begins, TDK).
And as for the merchandising, one person's video game or poster is another person's "making of" book or Criterion edition dvd. I know the scale of these comparisons is incomparable, but I'm just throwing it out there.
Hopefully Scott Pilgrim won't be solely for those who have followed the comic, but something that can be enjoyed by anyone happening to stroll into the theatre.
I'm just worried it'll turn into the "Little comic book movie that could" instead of standing alone as a movie.
I'm included in this "source material following/fans" for plenty of movies out there made and being made (eg. The Road, Batman, etc.) so I have my biases too.
"And as for the merchandising, one person's video game or poster is another person's "making of" book or Criterion edition dvd. "
I don't see how the two can really compare when it comes to depth and quality -- esp since WTWTA is pretty much a basic jumping around video game with max collecting stuff "concept" -- but i suppose each to his own.
Cornelius is also doing original music for the film, which makes it even that much cooler!
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