The Los Angeles Times marks the road in how it happened.
From the piece...
Oni Press of Portland, Ore., which has nine employees and publishes three to five comics or trade paperbacks each month, is behind a big movie being released Aug. 13 by Universal Pictures: "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World."
The special effects-heavy comedy starring Michael Cera as a slacker who must battle his new girlfriend's seven evil exes is extremely loyal to writer-artist Bryan Lee O'Malley's comics, including borrowing their hyper-stylized, video game-inspired visuals.
It's the first film produced by Closed on Mondays Entertainment, the production company that Oni Press publisher Joe Nozemack founded with producer Eric Gitter in 2003 to help shepherd Oni's projects onto the big screen. Closed on Mondays has 12 projects in various stages of development at studios and recently signed a deal with CBS to create television shows.
The fact that such a small publisher has its own production company shows just how important Hollywood has become to the comic business, which has seen sales shrink recently at the same time that movies based on its material have exploded.
Here's a recent trailer for the coming movie:
1 comment:
OMG!!! I love this! Totally going to check it out!
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