
With the impending release (August 13th) of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director/genius Edgar Wright’s next film, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, we’ll be seeing more marketing materials from the film over the next five months. The music of the film is a big factor in how it’s ultimately going to work, as Scott Pilgrim, the title character played by Michael Cera, is a member of a band called Sex Bob-Omb and will be playing with them throughout the film, along with rival band The Clash at Demonhead. Interestingly enough, the music will be performed by musicians such as Beck, Broken Social Scene, and Metric, and that will be the music the bands in the film “play”. This is an unusual choice, but should yield unique results.
The last band mentioned, Canadian indie-rock band Metric, has released the first song on the soundtrack for the film (which will also be featured in the movie), and can be listened to via their Facebook page. All you have to do is become a fan of the band and once that’s accomplished, the song is free to listen to.
As someone who’s never listened to Metric before (I’m so, so unhip to the current music world it’s pathetic), I actually liked the song, and not just as a piece of marketing for the movie. I’m looking forward to hearing it in the movie come August. I just started reading Scott Pilgrim and am on the second book, and ever since my excitement for the movie, which I originally had oddly no enthusiasm for, has increased tenfold. I’m beginning to tell people about the series and the movie, and hopefully more people will begin to take an interest, what with there already being 2,873 listens as I’m typing this sentence.. If they do more things like this, it could very well pay off.
Director Edgar Wright also told MTV recently that Scott Pilgrim will diverge from the graphic novels around the 3rd book. Check out his quote below:
“After three volumes, it starts to take its own path, but very much within the spirit of the book — and approved by Bryan as well. … There are some things that are in the film that are actually from Bryan’s original ideas before he wrote the books. [So] there are some things in there that refer to older ideas which he didn’t end up doing. It’s ironic, because there will be a couple of scenes when people will say, ‘That’s not in the book,’ but actually, if you look at these notes from 2005…”
Are you excited for Scott Pilgrim? If not, do marketing materials such as these help get you excited?
Source: CHUD