Scott Pilgrim Battling The Expendables
Posted 02.02.10 by Ryan
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World finally has a solid release date. Writer-director Edgar Wright has teased that the movie will arrive in theaters sometime in August, but Wright recently confirmed that Universal Pictures has finally awarded the comic book adaptation with a release date via his Twitter account.
In answer to your many questions...I can confirm a North American release of August 13th and an UK release of 6th August.
This puts Scott Pilgrim in direct competition with Sylvester Stallone's action-hero ensemble movie The Expendables, and the Julia Roberts drama Eat, Pray, Love. Universal clearly has high hopes for the movie by putting it against some tough competition. While Scott Pilgrim may have only a fraction of the soul-searching drama of Eat, Pray, Love, the official synopsis reveals that, like The Expendables, the movie will contain a good deal of action.
Meet charming and jobless Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera). A bass guitarist for totally average garage band Sex Bob-omb, the 22-year-old has just met the girl of his dreams…literally. The only catch to winning Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead)? Her seven evil exes are coming to kill him....
As Scott gets closer to Ramona, he must face an increasingly vicious rogues' gallery from her past — from infamous skateboarders to vegan rock
stars and fearsomely identical twins. And if he hopes to win his true love, he must vanquish them all before it really is game over.
The date is August 13. May the best movie win.