Mary Elizabeth Winstead in SCOTT PILGRIM vs. THE WORLD!
Edgar Wright's finds an all American girl for his first movie on U.S. soil!
Looks like Edgar Wright's (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) third theatrical film will indeed be an adaptation of the Oni Press Graphic novel Scott Pilgrim's Little Life - his first movie on American soil and first with a U.S. cast. Two months ago we heard Michael Cera would lead as Pilgrim, the young slacker who meets the woman of his dreams but finds that he can only win her heart by battling and defeating her seven evil ex-boyfriends. Now Wright has found the woman he needs to be every boy's fantasy in the film. And she is one hell of a choice. The talented and extremely beautiful Mary Elizabeth Winstead is in final talks for the picture...
You will know Winstead from the male demographic movies of Live Free or Die Hard, Death Proof and a couple of horrors with Final Destination 3 and Black Christmas.
She has shown she has heaps of talent... I remember being extremely impressed by her in FD-3 even - she really kept me awake during what was terrible script material to work with.
She reminded me of a young Jamie Lee Curtis with her slighty tom-boy ish looks and slight vulnerability in her eyes but her body posture exudes so much confidence in herself, something Curtis would only finally get used to later in her career.
Wright wrote the adaptation of the Oni Press Graphic Novel with actor Michael Bacal, who is also the guy working on the fictional remake of the popular 2007 documentary King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.
The film will be Wright's first straight material - i.e. not a homage/parody movie with his buddies. He has said recently he doesn't want to be seen as "that British director" and this is his first step to achieving that goal.
The movie will be titled Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and it should be out sometime next year.
source - the hollywood reporter