First Look: Your Highness, MacGruber and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Photos!
The good folks over at /Film managed to get their hands on the first official stills from a few highly anticipated movies including David Gordon Green’s Your Highness and Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Oh, and there are also a few pictures from MacGruber, although whether or not that is actually “highly anticipated” is up for debate.
One of the Scott Pilgrim pics is especially intriguing since it is our first glimpse at one of the action sequences in the film. Yes, that is Michael Cera wielding a flaming katana, and the dude in the white coat in the background is Jason Schwartzman as Gideon. I’m not sure who’s doing the back flip, but probably one of those evil ex-boyfriends I assume. Are you getting excited yet? Check out the rest of the images after the jump.
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Holy shit that Your Highness picture rocks my world.
Posted by Henrik on January 7th, 2010Is MacGruber a period piece? Because those images look very 80s, which would be pretty sweet.
Posted by rjdelight on January 7th, 2010Bah! I was hoping Your Highness was going to be full-on Sword and Sorcery-style. Fuck that Medieval jive.
Kristen Wiig is looking fine.
Posted by Wintle on January 7th, 2010There are not swords and sorcery in medieval times?
Danny McBride in a suit of armor gets my vote.
Posted by Henrik on January 7th, 2010have you read scott pilgrim sean?
Posted by james on January 7th, 2010if you have did you liike it?
There are, Henrik, but I’m talking about the subgenre, or my own very narrow definition of it. Typically movies set in prehistoric times, like Conan The Barbarian and all its rip-offs. I have very little tolerance for medieval or high fantasy. Too Tolkien for my tastes.
Posted by Wintle on January 7th, 2010Well, Merlin predates Tolkien right? There are no orcs and goblins with Merlin man, just fireballs and shit. Also snakemen.
Wintle, did you ever see the cartoon show Conan The Adventurer? It doesn’t have blood and guts, but was an awesome Conan-and-sorcery cartoon show. From the same creators was a show called King Arthur and the knights of justice, where a football team got high on a bus from a game and all of a sudden they were arthur and the knights, with merlin and shit, fighting an enemy called The Warlods, lead by Lord Viper. That could be this movie! (maybe they didnt actually get high in the show and instead got sucked through a portal by the magic of merlin, but read between the lines! Who hasn’t been sucked through a portal by the magic of something?)
Posted by Henrik on January 7th, 2010You haven’t experienced true sorcery until you’ve entered the magical kingdom of my neighbourhood bathhouse. Sucked through a portal, indeed.
I don’t mean to hate on Merlin and Lord Hobbit and all those guys quite so much. I just really love primal sword and sorcery, the predominant fantasy subgenre of the 80’s, and am disappointed that My Highness isn’t going that route. Danny McBride in a fur loincloth! Zooey Deschanel in a chainmail bikini!
I only caught glimpses of Conan the Adventurer when my brother used to watch it. The Macho Movie Review crew used to joke that the real Conan would have murdered the phoenix that lived in his sword within the first ten minutes of the show. I’ve since mellowed out enough that I own the series, as well as the live-action Conan show. Abominations both.
And I hate to shill, but I just started running the Conan newspaper strip in the banner on my blog once a day.
Posted by Wintle on January 7th, 2010Abomination?!? Oh I will take you to task Wintle, and shill for dead things: I wrote a blog entry about Conan some years back, explaining why it is a good show:
http://no-kids.blogspot.com/2007/05/father-wind-fill-my-wings.html
WINDFANG4LIFE
Posted by Henrik on January 7th, 2010The phoenix lived in his shield by the way, and he was given to conan by Herimitrius, so Conan would know not to fuck with it.
The shield-animal must be Chalopins favorite thing, because the knights of justice all have shield animals. Arthur King (his name) has a gold dragon.
By the sign of Jhebbal Sagh, master of beasts: LEAVE THE WATERHOLE NOW
Posted by Henrik on January 7th, 2010Your enthusiasm is contagious, Henrik. I will sample this Conan the Adventurer, though I can tell by your description alone that it in no way “stays very true to the legend of the cimmerian warrior”.
Posted by Wintle on January 7th, 2010Hmm… Maybe not in the sense that would be most important to you, but watching the show I was somewhat impressed that they kept so many elements. It seemed like the people who made it did give a shit about Conan, but at the same time, they were doing it as a cartoon for american kid audiences, so obviously it couldn’t be the ultimate representation of Conan.
Posted by Henrik on January 7th, 2010I mean the first episode has Conans dad showing him a sword as a child. Conan wants it, but his dad does not give it to him. He puts it in a stone coffin, and lies a stonelid on top of it. He then tells Conan that the day he is strong enough to lift the lid, he will be man enough to carry the sword.
That’s pretty Conan to me.
Posted by Henrik on January 7th, 2010FFFFFUU. Michael Cera looks like he’s angry! He NEVER shows emotion! THIS BETTER BE GOOD! TOO EXCITED ALREADY AGHHHH.
Posted by Falsk on January 7th, 2010“He then tells Conan that the day he is strong enough to lift the lid, he will be man enough to carry the sword.”
the boy should have introduced his dad to the concept of the lever arm, then told him to go fuck himself and flashed a cimmerian gang sign
Posted by rus in chicago on January 8th, 2010Scott Pilgrim pic is officially my desktop.
Posted by Colin on January 8th, 2010I smell Star Trek Lens Flair!
Posted by Big Hungry on January 8th, 2010The secondary cast of Scott Pilgrim all look note perfect. I trust Wright’s casting of Cera but am still waiting for confirmation that it was the right choice. I trust Winstead as an actress (based on of all things her as a villain in Sky High) as Ramona, but in the production blog videos she looks a little weird in the getup. I would expect movie magic to cover it up a bit.
I got a Scott Pilgrim official cast & crew shirt today from the Beguiling in Toronto, still plenty left for the locals if you can get yer hands on one
Posted by Goon on January 8th, 2010JJ’s gift to modern cinema is the overuse of lens flair. Goddammit.
Posted by Rusty on January 8th, 2010will George Lucas sue somebody I wonder?
Posted by pcch7 on January 8th, 2010“waiting for confirmation that it was the right choice”
let me know when you get the call or email
Winstead is a tear drop from God
“I got a Scott Pilgrim official cast & crew shirt today from the Beguiling in Toronto”
I smell a pick-up line this weekend, “Yeah I worked on the film, pretty much ran the second unit. Want to go back to my place and look at the half eaten bagel I got from Cera’s trailer?”
– I hate these things by the way but added one to make sure nothing gets blown out of proportion
Posted by rus in chicago on January 8th, 2010“I smell Star Trek Lens Flair!”
Lol.
Posted by Henrik on January 8th, 2010Been reading the Scott Pilgrim comics, they’re alot of fun but I’m not getting a Michael Cera vibe from Scott Pilgirm. I can’t think of better casting choice, I’m sure Cera will put asses in seats though, even if he looks like a lesbian school teacher (I stole that).
Posted by Mrespony on January 9th, 2010@Mrespony
I wonder, though, if maybe there just hasn’t been a director that’s challenged Cera into actually… acting. It’s my understanding that he’s just himself on screen and since that’s what’s been selling tickets lately, perhaps no director’s felt the need to try anything different?
Or maybe the movie’s just gonna suck. Who knows!
Posted by Falsk on January 9th, 2010You Highness looks awesome. I have high hopes for this movie and the picture only made me want to watch it even more!
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