Surprise ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ screening creates Comic-Con pandemonium
By Derrik J. Lang, APFriday, July 23, 2010
‘Scott Pilgrim’ creates Comic-Con pandemonium
SAN DIEGO — “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” won over Comic-Con.
At the end of Universal Pictures’ “Scott Pilgrim” panel at the pop-culture convention Thursday, director Edgar Wright had a surprise for the crowd. He invited anyone handed a button marked with an 8-bit rendition of the title character’s face at the start of the session to follow the filmmaker to a world premiere screening of the movie.
Wright stepped off the stage away from assembled cast members and quickly disappeared into a sea of more than 6,000 convention goers. Outside the San Diego Convention Center, masses of people split off into different directions, eventually converging seven blocks away on the historic Balboa Theatre for the comic adaptation debut.
