Thought the trailers for the live action Edgar Wright-directed Scott Pilgrim vs. The World looked like Bryan Lee O’Malley‘s comics coming to life? How about a cartoon?
As part of the film’s massive promotional push, Adult Swim is ready to unveil a four-minute animated short, dubbed Scott Pilgrim vs. the Animation and based on scenes from the comics but not in the movies, specifically high school stuff between Scott and Lisa Miller (as seen above) and Scott and Kim Pine. The animation is heavily influenced by O’Malley’s art, as you’ve no doubt already surmised from the above image.
This article on /Film says it debuts on midnight Thursday, August 12 — the day before the film is out in theaters — which would presumably put it in competition with midnight screenings of the movie. O’Malley said that’s not the case on his Twitter, so it looks like it’s this Thursday, between midnight and 12:30 (set DVRs accordingly), split up into two parts and airing during commercial breaks. It’ll be online in full the next day.
EDIT: OK, a little confusing here. The O’Malley tweet saying it’s airing this week has since been deleted, so we’ll go with this information, straight from /Film’s post: “Scott Pilgrim vs the Animation airs Thursday August 12th in two parts between 12 and 12:30 am, inside commercial breaks on [adult swim]. It will also be available in full on adultswim.com, and on the [adult swim] and Scott Pilgrim FaceBook pages the day after it airs. (I.e. the day of the movie’s release.)” Presumably, that means Wednesday going into Thursday, but it’s not totally clear. Working on clarification and will update when we know for sure.
EDIT NUMERO DOS: According to a Twitter reply from an Adult Swim employee, it’s midnight on Thursday going into Friday, which would indeed pit it against midnight screenings of the film.
Michael Cera and Alison Pill reprise their movie roles and voice Scott Pilgrim and Kim Pine; Mae Whitman (who plays evil ex #4, Roxy Richter) plays Lisa Miller and Jason Schwartzman (the movie’s Gideon Graves) voices Simon Lee. Cera, of course, was the voice of Brother in the Berenstain Bears animated series, finally fully cementing that link between indie comics influenced by video games and wholesome bear families.
August 3rd, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Yeah, the whole Scott Pilgrim thing is looking awesome.
August 3rd, 2010 at 6:17 pm
Just to be clear, when you say “midnight Thursday,” do you mean Wednesday going into Thursday or Thursday going into Friday.
From the writeup, it sounds like Thursday going into Friday, but if that’s the case, then the episodes are actually on “midnight Friday.”
August 3rd, 2010 at 6:47 pm
That’s a good question — at this point I think it’s Wednesday going into Thursday but am working on finding out for sure. Thanks!
August 4th, 2010 at 2:49 am
this should most likely be as enjoyable as the movie was
August 4th, 2010 at 9:02 am
Very cool, and it would be nice if it set up some kind of precedent for comic movies of a half-hour or so animated special out the day before or night of the movie premiere that is directly influenced/tied to the movie. Nothing necessary to watch to get the movie, just a bonus. And included on the DVD. Live a half-hour GL cartoon about Abin Sur or Kilowog at 8pm the night of the midnight openings of GL, something the fans can get together and watch before dressing up and heading out.
August 4th, 2010 at 10:36 am
Hopefully it’ll stream in Canada!!! Adult Swim videos ususally don’t…
August 4th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Midnight is the 60th minute of the 24th hour of a given day. The following day doesn’t technically start until 12:01, not unlike the millenium controversy, where the year 2000 is actually the final year of the millenium, and not the first year of the next. So, if it says midnight Thursday, that means Thursday into Friday. I know that matter has been cleared up, but there’s some technical specifics if’n you care.
August 5th, 2010 at 7:22 pm
axonrey, I would disagree that a new day starts on 12:01 because the new year is definitely considered to start at 12 midnight, which is considered the beginning of January 1, not the end of December 31.
Anyway, I think we both agree that it’s probably going to be “Thursday into Friday,” but you think that means it should be called “midnight Thursday,” while I think, based on my explanation above, that it should be called “midnight Friday.”
As far as DVRs are concerned, they seem to go with my wording. If you set your DVR for “midnight Friday,” you’ll be getting the show that goes Thursday into Friday. If you do as you say, and set it for “midnight Thursday,” you’d be getting “Wednesday into Thursday,” which we both agree is probably not the show we want.
August 6th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
OK, so now we know it’s Thursday going into Friday, which is “midnight Friday,” August 13, so set those DVRs accordingly.
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