Scott Pilgrim will make his return to display with Netflix and UCP teaming up for an anime sequence based mostly on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel sequence.
Sources confirmed to Deadline that O’Malley will write and government produce with BenDavid Grabinski, showrunner of Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Darkish? revival. Grabinski and O’Malley will showrun the sequence with Science SARU set to animate, ought to it obtain a sequence order. Science SARU’s Eunyoung Choi will produce and Abel Gongora will direct the sequence.
Netflix and UCP declined to remark.
The cult favourite was beforehand tailored into the 2010 cult favourite Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World directed by Edgar Wright and starring Michael Cera within the titular function. Set in snowy Toronto, Michael Bacall and Wright’s co-scripted function adaptation follows Scott Pilgrim who should defeat the seven exes of his new girlfriend Ramona Flowers, performed by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, with a view to win her coronary heart. In the meantime, Knives (Ellen Wong) has her eyes on Scott.
The movie which value a reported $60M and grossed $47.7M WW had fairly the ensemble solid on the time together with Chris Evans, Brie Larson, Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick, Alison Capsule, Aubrey Plaza, Jason Schwartzman, Mae Whitman, and Brandon Routh.
The Hollywood Reporter broke the information.