“We started the show before we had reached out to them,” says Grabinski.
“I literally screamed.
That was the first point where we felt like, okay, this could be a cool show.”
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Viewers can judge the show’s precise level of coolness whenScott Pilgrim Takes Offpremieres Nov. 17.
Until then, the EPs are keen not to say too much about the plot of the series.
“I wrote this stuff almost 20 years ago,” says O’Malley.
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“I couldn’t go back and rewrite it word for word.
“By that night we all kind of knew it was just goingpewwwwwwww.
It was like,that’s it, then!
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But it has it’s own life.
It’s gone on and on and on and on.”
The movie was almost immediately re-evaluated as an underseen gem.
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The same year, Ubisoft published a new version of the company’sScott Pilgrim vs. the Worldvideo game.
“I love Science Saru,” says O’Malley.
“So that was the first step.”
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“He started spewing out some really left field ideas that sparked a whole new approach.
“I wasn’t really pitching, I was just talking,” says Grabinski.
“I came up with a bunch of ideas on the spot that he immediately liked.
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And then now we’re here!”
Well, not quite.
“I was very nervous,” says O’Malley.
“I didn’t know we would get anyone, or especiallyeveryone.
He just said, ‘Oh, that’s funny.’
And then we all started chatting again.”
“We were all pretty young when we made the movie,” says O’Malley.
“We all felt like family and I think we have ever since.”
The pair had a similarly happy experience collaborating with Science Saru.
Grabinski enthuses about the manner in which the studio brought the show’s action sequences to fantastical life.
Everything just kept on getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
Each one of these episodes, if they were live action, would cost $100 million.”
“I’ll just gush about Science Saru and especially our director Abel Gongora,” says O’Malley.
“He’s a madman.
He’s from Spain and he moved to Tokyo to become an animator.
He storyboarded two of our episodes all by himself, every single frame.”
“I always say it takes place in ‘Scott Pilgrim time,'” he explains.
“It’s become its own mythological realm.
The movie did that.
Edgar always called it ‘theAmelieversion of Toronto.’
The show is building off that beautiful dreamy version of the city.”
“Then one of us thought of this idea.
I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?
You cannot do this joke that she delivers DVDs for Netflix?
Come on, you’re Netflix!
Figure it out!'”
Scott Pilgrim Takes Offpremieres Nov. 17 on Netflix.
