From Wizard Universe.

WRIGHT: ...Bryan Lee O'Malley's book, Scott Pilgrim, is something that was sent to me when the first volume came out. I'm not gonna lie and say that I had read that book and said, "Oh, I have to make this film!" Somebody else read that book and said, "Edgar Wright should make this." Through that I've become close to Bryan from my part of the process and even his. It's been interesting over the last couple of years working on that, to be working with him in terms of doing an adaptation of his comic to actually reading the final draft versions of the book that hasn't yet been drawn, so that's been brilliant for me to get involved with him on that level in terms of sort of seeing a series take shape. It's been a real eye opener so I'm gonna be a shill and say that Scott Pilgrim is my favorite comic of recent times. It is. It's a fantastic book, though, isn't it?

Oh, it's incredible! It's one of my favorite things coming out.
WRIGHT: It's funny. When I first read it I did think, "Oh, this is kind of a bit like 'Spaced.'" You know, sort of the ... and really, Brian had never seen the show and when we first met I gave him a copy of it and he sort of said, "Oh, it's funny." You know. It's obviously not similar plotwise but it has a similar aesthetic to it, you know?

Yeah, exactly. So while you were reading it you really saw what you could do with it?
WRIGHT: Yeah. I read it kind of completely blind. Sometimes people give you synopses of things and I tend to kind of try and skip that, just read it blind. So I was reading it and as it got into the Matthew Patel's first appearance, I was thinking, like, "Oh, okay, I get it. I get it! This is gonna be cool."

Can you tell me anything about the production of it? What stage are you guys in?
WRIGHT: We’re hopefully going into production later this year. We've been doing a lot of work on it in a conception level and getting into casting and crew and stuff. In the number of times I've been to Toronto, one of the most amazing things about Bryan's artwork is that it all refers to real locations. All of the locations in the book he took, maybe even sometimes there's a chain restaurant, like, a Pizza Pizza in Toronto that's a specific branch that he's taken a photo of. Just last month I took some sort of the crew around, like, the Scott Pilgrim locations and it's an amazing thing to take one of the books and say, "Hey, there it is!" You know, and especially where it's essentially very non-descript locations that Bryan has taken photographic reference for and there and lo and behold is the place!

Do you have a grasp on how you're gonna work with how many books are eventually going to be in the series?
WRIGHT: Yeah. The script that we've written essentially covers all six. If it was at the level of Harry Potter we might be able to talk about doing six films but in this case our film is very much an adaptation of the entire six. It's very much in the spirit of Bryan's books and certainly in terms of the first and second books there are whole sections that are straight from the books but then it slightly takes on its own momentum and kind of pace. Especially as a counter point to how uninvolved we were in the American remake of "Spaced," I've been very keen to involve Bryan in every stage of this so that he feels happy and comfortable with what we've written, and as Bryan, I'm sure, will tell you, there are a couple of bits in the fourth and soon to be fifth book which are lines from our screenplay. I feel quite proud that there's a couple of bits in Scott Pilgrim volume 4 where I'm thinking, "That's my line!"