Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright has a new adaptation he’s working on called Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which is based on a graphic novel. The movie has officially started casting, announcing that Chris Evans (Fantastic Four, Push), Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) and Brie Larson (United States of Tara) have all joined the cast.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is written by Bryan Lee O’Malley and is built in a sort of video game style as it follows Scott Pilgrim, a nobody who’s in a band. One day he meets the girl of his dreams, but there’s a little catch: in order to date this girl of his dreams, he needs to defeat her seven ex-boyfriends.

The new cast members join Michael Cera (Superbad, Juno), who will be playing the title character and Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Death Proof, Live Free or Die Hard) will be playing the woman of his dreams with the seven ex-boyfriends. Chris Evans’ character is one of the exes who is a skateboarder/movie star named Lucas Lee and Brandon Routh will play a rock star-type with what I understand to be “vegan pyschic powers” who’s named Todd Ingram. Brie Larson will play Scott Pilgrim’s ex-girlfried Envy Adams, who he still cares for when he meets this irresistible girl worth fighting seven super-boys.

Many other interesting characters are involved as well, such as Roxy Richter, a girl ex who’s a half-ninja (can you be a half-ninja?) played by Mae Whitman.

The series is from Oni Press and will consist of six books with the fifth coming out next month, but this does sound like it’s primed for multiple movies in a kind of Kill Bill style; maybe a trilogy. The script is written by Michael Bacall along with Edgar Wright.

[Source: THR]