Grabinski Teases More Scott Pilgrim, Drops New Hulu Film
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- BenDavid Grabinski told Variety he's "open to doing 'Scott' stuff in any sort of medium," teasing more Scott Pilgrim projects beyond the new "Scott Pilgrim EX" beat-em-up video game that launched earlier this month.
- "Scott Pilgrim EX" was produced by Grabinski and franchise creator Bryan Lee O'Malley through Tribute Games, with Grabinski saying new iterations could surface "every few years" in games, animation, or other media.
- "Scott Pilgrim Takes Off" on Netflix, co-created by Grabinski and O'Malley, will not get a Season 2 — but Grabinski said he had hinted to people that "there will be more 'Scott Pilgrim.'"
- "Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice", Grabinski's sci-fi action-comedy starring Vince Vaughn, James Marsden, and Eiza González, hits Hulu on Friday, with Vaughn playing two versions of his character Nick via a time-travel twist.
- Grabinski stripped the film's time-travel mechanics down to four beats — Nick came back six months, the machine blew up, and harm to one Nick affects the other — to keep focus on character stakes over quantum physics.
- "Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice" production ran 60% technical for the dual-Vaughn scenes, requiring a "computer-operated camera that's as big as a house" programmed to repeat shots identically while Grabinski directed one Vaughn at a time via earwig.
Why it matters: Grabinski's dual announcements point to a multi-platform Scott Pilgrim approach — new installments every few years across games, animation, or other media rather than a traditional Season 2. His Hulu film meanwhile bets that stripped-down time-travel rules and character comedy will outweigh sci-fi rigmarole, after a dual-Vaughn shoot that ran 60% technical logistics.
