In a recent interview with Empire, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off creator BenDavid Grabinski opened up about the anime adaptation’s action sequences.
Grabinski described the upcoming Netflix series’ fight sequences as “unbelievably big,” which is something that would be difficult and expensive to pull off in live-action.
“There’s an extended fight sequence in Episodes 2 and 3 that, if this was a live-action movie, would cost more than Avatar,” He said. “If you made a live-action movie of the show that we did, I think it would be the most expensive movie ever, and you’d be shooting for ten years.”
What to expect in Scott Pilgrim Takes Off?
“Scott Pilgrim meets the girl of his dreams, Ramona Flowers, but learns he must defeat her seven evil exes in order to date her. Then things get even more complicated,” reads the logline.
Based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is executive produced and written by O’Malley and Grabinski, who are also set as showrunners. The award-winning animation house Science SARU serves as the animation studio for the anime. Executive producers are Eunyoung Choi, Edgar Wright, Marc Platt, Jared LeBoff, Adam Siegel, Michael Bacall, and Nira Park.
It will feature the return of the live-action cast of 2010’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World movie including Michael Cera as Scott, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona, Kieran Culkin as Wallace Wells, Anna Kendrick as Stacey Pilgrim, Brie Larson as Envy Adams, Aubrey Plaza as Julie Powers, Ellen Wong as Knives Chau, Alison Pill as Kim Pine, Johnny Simmons as Young Neil, and Mark Webber as Stephen Stills. Ramona’s evil exes will once again be portrayed by Satya Bhabha as Matthew Patel, Chris Evans as Lucas Lee, Brandon Routh as Todd Ingram, Jason Schwartzman as Gideon Graves, and Mae Whitman as Roxie.
