A XPP Example NOT Related To LOST

Here we have the comic book series, Scott Pilgrim:

They are 6 books that focus on the life of 23 year old Scott Pilgrim who has to fight his new girlfriends seven evil exes' in order to really be her boyfriend. I've only recently completed reading them and they are extremely enjoyable reading, it constantly breaks the fourth wall, throws in random story segments, like volume two gives you a vegan shepherds pie recipe while telling the story as well, and overall appeals to many a geek who enjoys playing video games and watching films.




In August 2010, the amazing director, Edgar Wright, of Spaced, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz fame, added his first Hollywood title to his belt, an adaptation of the Scott Pilgrim Trilogy.

It was a great film, not loved by many, didn't do well at the box office but got great critical acclaim. It is a shame that it didn't do so well, but it is an episodic film and since watching it all the way through, re-watches have consisted in pausing and revisiting hours, days or weeks later like a TV show.

The XPP of all this though I only discovered this morning. Like all good book adaptations, (NOT GOING IN TO ADAPTATION THEORY, THAT IS NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS!!!) there are certain parts of the book that get left out of the story. In this regards, it was the backstory between the characters Scott Pilgrim and Kim Pine. So before, or during it's run in cinemas, a short animation showing how they met and started dating was made and why they split. It was shown on Cartoon Network's [adult swim] in America, don't think it got a showing in the UK but ho hum, it's on the internet.

Now a short TV prequel to what was supposed to be a big blockbuster hit seems like a good Cross Platform example. Also, it was animated and voiced by the respective actors in the film. Except Lisa who never turned up in the film. Anyway, the reason i'm talking about this is because a) Mike Histon was going to talk about it before me and b) it shows that XPP can allow you to keep all your fans happy, especially when it comes to book adaptations when the fans are very difficult to please. 

Edgar Wright DID NOT fail with or without this but still....

OOOOO, this reminds me, LOST did a similar thing to appease the fans that hated (and I mean HATED) the series finale. They produced a small little 20 minute Epilogue available on the Season 6 DVD that answered A LOT of the questions that were never answered on the show. I have yet to show it to my mom who is one of those who HATED it, so I will see how well it did appease the fans but still it, oh crap, I said I wasn't going to talk about LOST. Ok, i'm going to go on to Stage 3 of my LOST babbling!