Edgar Wright teases Scott Pilgrim extended soundtrack with Brie Larson's "Black Sheep"
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Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World continues to celebrate its (COVID-belated) 10th anniversary this year, as Wright announced that there’s now a set date, July 9, for the film’s freshly polished extended soundtrack to arrive. Wright offered up a little treat to go with the news, too: The version of Metric’s “Black Sheep” that plays during the film’s performance by fictional ex-based band The Clash At Demonhead, complete with Brie Larson (as Envy Adams) on the song’s vocals. The song is currently streaming on all the major services.
Filling in for regular Metric singer Emily Haines (on whom the character was at least loosely based), Larson taps her pop idol roots to deliver the vocals, which serve as one of the big musical centerpieces for a film that certainly doesn’t lack for them. (Scott Pilgrim might be Wright’s most heavily, and deliberately, soundtracked film, although a number of his other movies, including Baby Driver, could probably give it a run for its money.)
Among other things, the extended soundtrack is expected to include some new demo tracks from Beck, who wrote the songs performed by Sex Bob-Bomb in the film. (Ah, for the tender melodies of “Garbage Truck” to come back into our lives.) It’s not clear what other songs might show up on the extended album, but given that the original version was already jam-packed with tunes from everyone ranging from The Rolling Stones to Broken Social Scene to, obviously, Plumtree’s “Scott Pilgrim”—the inspiration for Bryan Lee O’Malley’s original graphic novels—it’s likely to be a pretty packed set.
Released in 2010, Scott Pilgrim hit cult status with a quickness; the film returned to theaters earlier this year to celebrate that 10th anniversary, after initial plans to get it back in front of people were scuttled by the pandemic. Meanwhile, Wright’s next project, documentary The Sparks Brothers, is due out on June 18.
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Saw that movie a few months ago. A cult classic but lame to see. No real plot. – Damien Holland, Amsterdam – The Netherlands, Netherlands, March 2015
Thats too bad. Maybe it just didn’t translate into Dutch very well?
Does “plot” mean something different in Dutch?
Hot Take: I liked Scott Pilgrim and look forward to more of it.
no offense to Metric and all, but Brie Larson’s version of this song is the best one
Seriously. I love Metric, but the Brie Larson version is superior in every way. I think I still have some fan edited version that I ripped from YouTube many moons ago.
“That was…that was devastating.”
“you should see them live, they’re much better live”
Tell it to the cleaning lady!
I definitely prefer the lower register of Brie Larson’s voice in the song. Which is sort of funny, since her speaking voice is higher pitched than Emily Haines’.
Brie Larson’s version is excellent — also she led a past life as a pop star apparently? Had no idea — but I still prefer the Metric version just a smidge, maybe due to familiarity.
It’s not clear what other songs might show up on the extended album
The entire track listing for the expanded album is on iTunes.
Yet I’m still going to insist on renaming “We Are Sex Bomb-Omb” to “Launchpad McQuack.”
It also already came out months ago on vinyl. This is just it coming out digitally.
That was the score, not the soundtrack unless you are talking about that huge box set. Vinyl of just soundtrack is coming June 10th I think, already pre-ordered, fun that you don’t know what color you get until you open it.
Try years ago – I got the extended soundtrack CD when the film came out. It even used to be on Google Play Music (RIP) and I would assume other places too. I don’t know why it vanished, presumably licensing arguments.
it should’ve been ramona and envy ending up together with knives turning scott into a pile of coins and becoming ruler of the world.
It should’ve been set over months rather than days. The compressed timeframe really undercut the character arcs.
As long as there are more songs to make me think about death and get sad and stuff.
Here ya go and it he has since died, beloved by musicians, but fairly unrecognized by the masses.
although a number of his other movies, including Baby Driver, could probably give it a run for its money.)
Can we please all just forget baby driver? The soundtrack isn’t great, the lead actors are gross, and its best scene is the opening and after that it’s all downhill. Bring on Last Night in Soho.
Chrissakes, what did John Hamm do?!?
Nothing that we know of (unless we ascribe Don Draper’s actions to him) but rule of three – it’s either him or Foxx next.
https://jezebel.com/jon-hamm-on-the-violent-hazing-that-shuttered-his-frate-1824997086
I usually don’t like him much, but Baby Driver is John Hamm’s best work, by quite some margin.
I really didn’t like Baby Driver, even in 2017 before anything was really out there about the cast. The music is good, yes, and the driving scenes are well done, but Wright was clearly trying to make a Tarantino and just fell short on all accounts. In a Tarantino flick, the bad guys would have been evil but at least cool and interesting. In Baby Driver they were just shitty and unpleasant. Also, I’m far from being one of those “thin blue line” types, but from what I remember the movie really glamorizes killing police officers. In a Tarantino movie, it would have been clear that we’re not supposed to be rooting for that. In Baby Driver it was far from clear that we weren’t supposed to be cheering it on. Uggh.
Not defending the movie as a whole because there’s still plenty to criticize, but I don’t think it glamourizes killing cops. While (at least) most of the cops pictured are corrupt, it definitely portrays Foxx and Hamm killing them as the poor choice considering that’s what leads to the rest of the violence in the film.
I don’t really care about the cast, it’s just a wildly overrated movie. I didn’t actually finish watching it, actually, so perhaps I missed an inexplicably great ending…
Baby goes to jail, the end.
The ending was a fight between two cars in a parking garage.
No we can’t. Baby Driver’s amazing. The soundtrack is great, the action is great, and the actors are great in it (though some are extremely terrible people, admittedly).
It’s my least favourite Wright thing BY FAR but somehow it’s his best reviewed. I don’t get it. There’s a few cool scenes but I felt nothing for any character. Well except confusion in some cases.
For me it was the opening scene that ruined it — when their red getaway car emerges from the tunnel between two identical red cars. I’ll believe the Speed bus could’ve made that jump before I buy that bullshit.
Still her best role.
I could never tell the difference between her and her sister, Camembert.
As it happens in one of sometimes marginally interesting bits of trivia, her real name is neither Brie *nor* Larson.
Brie could be short for Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers. Both are exactly equal on the French scale, tied with Camembert.
Absolutely killer soundtrack. It’s really hard to make a movie with an original piece of art (be it a movie-within-the-movie, a song, a painting, whatever) that is actually good enough to make you think “Oh, this character is good at this now!”, but “Threshold” really does that. There’s a quick moment where Ramona is watching the band play that where she looks genuinely surprised & blown away that they sound that good, and, yeah, they sound that good.
I think it’s partially because Mary Elizabeth Winstead is just a really good actor. She seems to be doing fine, but still seems underappreciated. So good in Cloverfield Lane and Fargo (and Sky High, or I just like that movie).
No. This news is perfectly calibrated to annoy me. My only comment on the Scott Pilgrim movie for years was that it was a lot of fun but I thought their one big error was the casting of Envy Adams. I thought whoever they cast was utterly forgettable and had no charisma, they really needed someone with presence, but they settled for blandly pretty. My husband recently reminded me that that was Brie Larson and I was not surprised, she has underwhelmed me in every single role I’ve ever seen her in. I’m a big Metric fan and loved that song on the soundtrack but walked away from the film thinking the casting for Envy sucked. But Metric had a perfect sound for the role. As she’s become a much bigger star since then, it makes sense they’re capitalizing on this and releasing this track. And from the comments above, she has fans. So good for everyone who’s enjoying this but I yelled “No!” when I saw the headline.
I thought this was going to be a legitimate complaint about Envy not being a redhead.
“Larson taps her pop idol roots”Is this ‘pop’?
Metric crossed over into pop a while back, just like Arcade Fire and the rest of that Canadian cohort.
Yes, this is pop.
If this song is called “Black Sheep”, does this in any way make Brie Larson a Nazi Princess? If not, could it be framed as such? Asking for a thirsty ass media company that really, really likes clicks.
Thanks for fixing your hair, Brie.