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In the second filmmaker conversation event of the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, director J.J. Abrams (Mission Impossible III, Star Trek, Super 8 ) interviewed Edgar Wright, director of the much anticipated August film Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. The interview covered most of Wright’s rise in the film industry and used clips from his past works to demonstrate. Moving chronologically through Wright’s oeuvre, the event ended on Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and a new nine-minute clip.
The scene comes from the second Scott Pilgrim book and opens with the comic text “And then…” onscreen, backed by a cover of Bob Dylan’s appropriately-titled To Ramona (I believe by the Flying Burrito Brothers). Scott has set up a date with Ramona at his house and she arrives just as Scott’s roommate Wallace is leaving. (His departure tinkers with the comic a bit in that he’s leaving to go check out a movie shoot).
Straight out of the comic, we see Scott fretting over every minor detail and worried that Ramona has changed her hair color. (It’s now bright blue). We get a couple cuts with comic intertitles (“15 minutes…”, “30 minutes…”, “45 minutes…”) until, as in the comic, Scott starts to freak out when Ramona mentions his haircut. The scene is played just as in the source material with chalk Bryan Lee O’Malley drawings appearing on-screen to fill in background (“Scott’s last haircut was 431 days ago, 3 hours before his last breakup,” etc).
There is currently no footage available, but you can read the whole report on how the rest of the scene played out here