Netflix's Scott Pilgrim Takes Off Lands Ramona Flowers a New Delivery Gig

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (L to R) Michael Cera as Scott Pilgrim and Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona Flowers in Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (L to R) Michael Cera as Scott Pilgrim and Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona Flowers in Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.

In a new interview, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off executive producers Bryan Lee O’Malley and BenDavid Grabinski revealed that they had to make some adjustments to set this version of the graphic novel in a kind of suspended “Scott Pilgrim Time.” Edgar Wright, the director of the film, once described its setting as “the Amélie version of Toronto.” And in keeping with that retro-nostalgic feel, O’Malley and Grabinski knew they had to update Ramona Flowers’ employer.

“Bryan and I and were writing one day thinking, they’re never going to let us have her deliver packages for Amazon,” Grabinski explained, speaking to Entertainment Weekly. In the film, Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is seen wearing a blue Amazon vest—something that wasn’t going to work in a Netflix production. But, this is Scott Pilgrim Time. If they were going to evoke retro-nostalgia, there was another option.

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