Will Scott Pilgrim 2 happen? Edgar Wright reveals there are "some plans to revisit the material"

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Scott Pilgrim's creator "would like to revisit the characters"

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Could the Sex Bob-ombs be getting an encore? Scott Pilgrim vs. The World director Edgar Wright has revealed that he’s in the tentative stages of planning a new, possibly animated, project with the original material – though a big-screen sequel is unlikely.

“There’s some plans — and there’s nothing official yet — but there are some plans to revisit the material in an animation way,” Wright told EW. “We’ve been talking with [creator] Bryan [Lee O’Malley] and with [executive producer] Jared [LeBoff] for a while [about]: What if we did something with the books in anime form? It’s being discussed as we speak.”

“I would like to revisit the characters [in comic form] and see what they’re up to. I sketched Scott early in the pandemic with a huge beard. I think that would be a funny image,” O’Malley teased.

Star of the 2010 film, Michael Cera, said: “I don’t think a sequel is a reality. In my limited understanding of the film industry, when a movie doesn’t really explode at the box office, it’s hard for anybody to get behind a sequel.”

Bradley Russell
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