Blended together from the massively popular video-game market, superhero comic-books, the punk-rock scene and 1950s science-fiction cinema, Universal Pictures takes a big leap and drops a record-breaking $65 million on Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World, directed by Joe Dante, based on an original screenplay by Chris Columbus, produced by John Hughes and starring Michael J. Fox (coming off the huge success of the studio's own Back to the Future from the year prior) in the title role.
Despite its video-game counter-part, courtesy of a tie-in with Nintendo of America who created the 8-bit platformer, being a huge seller, Scott Pilgrim does decent box office ($84 million) when its released in July 1988. But its viewed as a slight disappointment given its large budget (mostly in part due to its massive level of visual effects work done by George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic) and heavy marketing push that summer. The same older audiences who flocked to see Back to the Future three years earlier reported walked out calling it "Weird."
Michael J. Fox – Scott Pilgrim
Phoebe Cates - Ramona Flowers
Winona Ryder - Knives Chau
Robert Downey Jr. – Wallace Wells
Amanda Plummer - Kim Pine
Tim Roth - Stephen Stills
River Phoenix - Young Neil
Ally Sheedy - Stacey Pilgrim
Lea Thompson - Envy Adams
Rosanna Arquette - Julie Powers
The League of Seven Evil Exes:
Crispin Glover - Matthew Patel
Charlie Sheen – Lucas Lee
Eric Stoltz – Todd Ingram
Wendie Jo Sperber - Roxy Richter
Yuji Okumoto - Kyle Katayanagi
Ree Brian Imada - Ken Katayanagi
Kevin Bacon - Gideon Gordon Graves
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Joseph Gordon-Leavitt as Scanlon
Vincent Cassel as Serrano
Edgar Ramirez as Nilo
Naveen Andrews as Kassem
Nick Nolte as Donnelly
William Fichtner and Nicky Katt as Pascal and Spider
score by: Hans Zimmer and Daft Punk
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