Edgar Wright doesn't regret spending M:I 4 to make Scott Pilgrim

The director didn’t want to “screw up” the action franchise.

Netflix recently released its adaptation of Scott Pilgrim in animated series: Scott Pilgrim takes flight. Edgar Wright directed the 2010 film, adapted from the original comic strip. Guest on Josh Horowitz’s podcast Happy Sad Confusedthe filmmaker reconsiders his choice to decline the production of Mission: Impossible 4 – Ghost Protocol For Scott Pilgrim.

“It was mostly a question of timing. To do it I couldn’t have promoted Scott Pilgrim”, explains the director of Shaun of the Dead. However, this agenda obstacle is not the only reason for his refusal. Fan of action films Tom Cruise, Edgar Wright didn’t want to be the one to bury the saga: “Sometimes when you love a saga, it’s almost like you don’t want to be the person who could possibly screw it up”.

It’s ultimately the director Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Tomorrowland) who was responsible for this fourth opus of the franchise. Edgar Wright bears absolutely no resentment being himself a big fan of the film: “I loved. I was there on opening day to see it and I never sat there thinking ‘I could have done that’. I thought ‘It’s awesome.‘”

He says that this is not the first time that he has refused proposals on this same argument, for fear of ruining a work of which he is already a fan: “I’ve experienced this many times throughout my career, where I’ve been asked to do episodes of my favorite TV series. Part of me, in the back of my mind, thinks ‘This show has been going strong without me for so long, so it’s not going to die without me.’”

The latest filmEdgar Wright East Last Night in Sohoa horror thriller with Anya Taylor-Joy And Thomasin McKenzie released in 2021. He is also the director of Last ad before the end of the world, Hot Fuzz And Baby Driver. Scott Pilgrim takes flight is available on Netflix and brings together the entire cast of the 2010 film: Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Chris Evans, Ellen Wong, Brie Larson, Jason Schwartzman, Aubrey Plaza And Anna Kendrick.