Hollywood and Me: BFF Edition

The hypothetical IM conversation with an anthropomorphic Hollywood is BACK!

Hollywood: Hey, dude.
Me: Uh, Hi Hollywood.
HW: Sorry about the other day, my little brother got on my name and was fucking with you.
Me: Seriously? So you're not going to rape my childhood!? It was all a joke!?
HW: No. NO. That's all happening. He was just a jerk about it though.
Me: Oh...
HW: But listen! I want to make it up to you!
Me: Oh ya?
HW: Ya. So.. what is the best book or whatever you've read in the last year?
Me: Wow. That's pretty hard. I mean, Ender's Game was amazing, but I think I'm going to have to say the Scott Pilgrim graphic novels. The story is awesome and it's hilarious. Even katie was laughing out loud while reading it.
HW: Ok, ok. Perfect. Bam. It's being made into a movie.
Me: Are you serious!? You're going to ruin it aren't you?
HW: No! No, this one's yours. YOU pick whoever you want and I'll make it happen.
Me: Really!?
HW: Do it.
Me: ...OK. Let me think...
Me: Well Scott Pilgrim is kind of an awkward and funny 23 year old, what about Michael Cera? You know the dude from Superbad?
HW: Done.
Me: No way. Awesome.
HW: Keep it going, whatever you want, boss.
Me: Calling me boss is a bit weird. It's like a strange cool nickname, yet somehow durrogatory. I'll let it slide though. OK: The book is a hilarious story about a group of friends and yet has these ridiculous action set pieces that come out of nowhere. The perfect director would have to be able to handle action and comedy and blend it together in an awesome way. What about the dude that directed Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the dead!?
HW: Edgar Wright?
Me: Exactly.
HW: Done.
Me: Awesome. Ok: The book's story takes place in and around Toronto and many of the houses and businesses are based on real places. Do you think you could actually FILM at these locations? Like actually FILM at the "real" house that Scott lives in and at the school adn record stores and such?
HW: Done and done. Good call too. That should be sweet.
Me: Wow, Hollywood, I'm sorry I was so mad the other day.
HW: Hey no prob, man. Oh, do you mind if I fill out the rest of the cast with spot on actors and maybe include the creator of the book in every level of the process so the movie will be as faithful to the books as it can be?
Me: Ha, not at all!
HW: Ok, I gotta roll. I have lots of work to do. Oh, you can follow Edgar's video blog of making the movie here, to make sure it's to your liking: http://www.scottpilgrimthemovie.com/


So ya, if you couldn't tell I could not be more stoked for this movie. The books are absolutely hilarious and the story is really engaging. The creator (Bryan Lee O'Malley) does an awesome job of capturing the feel of a bunch of friends hanging out and joking with each other. This serves as sort of the center for the book, but it goes off in some of the craziest directions ever. If the show Friends, Superbad, and Street Fighter 4 had a love child it would be the story in this book. When I heard they were making a movie of it starring Michael Cera I went back and re-read the first book and was blown away at how obvious of a choice he is for the role. And Hott Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead are two of the funniest movies I have ever seen. Even the small characters were cast with people that I think are perfect, and the fact they're actually shoot AT the locations O'Malley used as photo references for the book is just icing on the cake.

Don't do ME a favor, go do yourself one and head to Border's and check out Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (Book 1 of the series). The stories are smaller black and white digest sized graphic novels and the art is a very cool manga inspired look except you can actually follow what's on the page (unlike manga, which is ridiculous). Seriously, go check it out. If you think it's stupid, fine, don't buy it. But if you find yourself at a bookstore, go find it and read the first few pages and I bet you find you don't want to stop.

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