Based on the graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O’Malley (Seconds) that was adapted into a film starring Michael Cera (Superbad), Scott Pilgrim will be seen again on another platform, in the form of an anime series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The novels centered around Pilgrim – a slacker and member of a garage band who falls head-over-heels for the newly-single Ramona Flowers, but must defeat her seven exes before they can be together.
The action-packed romantic comedy was published in six volumes between 2004 and 2010, and were later adapted into a film by Edgar Wright (Last Night in Soho). The cast included Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Kate), Kieran Culkin (Home Alone), Chris Evans (Captain America: The Winter Soldier), Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect), Brandon Routh (Superman Returns), and Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore).
If the series was greenlit, Wright would serve as executive producer alongside Nira Park (The World’s End), Marc Platt (Wicked), and Jared LeBoff (Cruella).
Wright teased, in 2020, a potential comeback for the franchise in the form of animation.
“There’s some plans – and there’s nothing official yet – but there are some plans to revisit the material in an animation way,” he said, via Comicbook. “We’ve been talking with Bryan and with Jared for awhile [about]: What if we did something with the books in anime form? It’s being discussed as we speak.”