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Scott Pilgrim Anime Will Have Manchester Preview on November 16
posted on by Andrew Osmond
The Manchester Animation Festival will hold a preview screening of Universal Studio Group's Universal Content Productions' (UCP), and Science SARU's anime series of Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series on Wednesday November 16, a day before the series will premiere on the following Thursday.
The screening will be at 6.30 p.m. and is listed here; attendees will need to buy one of the passes to the festival.
The cast from the 2010 live-action Scott Pilgrim vs. the World film adaptation are returning to voice the anime. O'Malley is writing the project and serving as executive producer with BenDavid Grabinski (new Are You Afraid of the Dark? series). O'Malley and Grabinski are also the showrunners. Japan's Science SARU (DEVILMAN crybaby, The Heike Story, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!) is animating the project with its CEO Eunyoung Choi as producer and Abel Góngora (Star Wars: Visions' "TO-B1") as director.
Edgar Wright, the director and co-writer of the 2010 live-action film adaptation, is an executive producer with his producing partner Nira Park, the film's co-writer Michael Bacall, and Marc Platt Productions' Marc Platt, Jared Leboff, and Adam Seigel.
Scott Pilgrim is the story of a 20-something Toronto indie rocker's adventures in getting and keeping jobs, avoiding being kicked out of his apartment, and surviving encounters with the seven evil exes of the new girl in town on whom he has a crush.
