SCOTT PILGRIM Creators Amusingly Explain What Kicked Off the Cast Reuniting After Nine Years Before the Show Was Pitched
Thirteen years after the beloved movie based on the graphic novels by Bryan Lee O’Malley, the world of Scott Pilgrim is back with the Netflix series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. We are just two months away from the show’s debut, and O’Malley and series director BenDavid Grabinski have a fun story to tell fans of the franchise about how the stars of the movie and show reunited.
In a recent interview with EW, Grabinski explained that they gambled on the show, fully expecting the cast to return, but not being able to reach out to them in the beginning.
"We started the show before we had reached out to them. I can't explain to you the process of Bryan and I sitting in rooms for a year or so saying, 'Well, I hope they're going to say yes!'" He continued, "I remember sitting in Bryan's office when we started to see the emails of people saying that they were interested ... I literally screamed. That was the first point where we felt like, okay, this could be a cool show."
O'Malley added of getting the cast back together:
"I was very nervous. I didn't know we would get anyone, or especially everyone. We just started asking, and Edgar asked, and I wrote a really nice letter, and everyone just very very kindly and very promptly said yes.”
He went on to tell the funny story:
“The cast have spoken about this email chain a lot but there's one detail that I don't think anyone has mentioned. We were exchanging emails when the movie was coming out and then this thread went dormant for about nine years. Then, before this anime was even on the docket, Michael Cera responded to a meme someone had sent as if no time had passed. He just said, 'Oh, that's funny.' Chris Evans responded like, 'Michael, what the f--- are you doing responding to this email from nine years ago?' And then we all started chatting again. We were all pretty young when we made the movie. We all felt like family and I think we have ever since."
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off’s returning cast includes Michael Cera as Scott Pilgrim, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona Flowers, Satya Bhabha as Matthew Patel, Kieran Culkin as Wallace Wells, Chris Evans as Lucas Lee, Anna Kendrick as Stacey Pilgrim, Brie Larson as Envy Adams, Alison Pill as Kim Pine, Aubrey Plaza as Julie Powers, Brandon Routh as Todd Ingram, Jason Schwartzman as Gideon Graves, Johnny Simmons as “Young” Neil Nordegraf, Mark Webber as Stephen Stills, Mae Whitman as Roxie Richter, and Ellen Wong as Knives Chau.
The eight-episode first season of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off will arrive on Netflix on Friday, November 17.