Live ‘Shadow Cast’ for SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD Midnights at The Tivoli This Weekend

“You made me swallow my gum! That’s going to be in my digestive tract for seven years!”

Take every genre that can be adapted into film, then go slightly beyond that, and you may find the 2010 film SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD. British director Edgar Wright, after SHAWN OF THE DEAD and before THE WORLD’S END, adapted Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Oni Press comic book of the same name about the eponymous slacker rocker and his colorful quest to defeat his dream girl’s seven evil ex-boyfriends. Wright captured the theme of the comic book, mixed in an aggressive visual style inspired by video games, amplified musical exchanges so they resonated like a live concert, and applied the physical laws of a Loony Tunes Cartoon. With a young cast superbly led by Michael Cera and Mary Elizabeth Winstead but wonderfully supported by Allison Pill, Ellen Wong, Chris Evans, and Kieran Culkin, the result was a noisy, flashy, hipster mess. But luckily it had heart, which made it feel fun and unique and more like a lo-fi, endearing mess.

Box office-wise, SCOTT PILGRIM was something of a flop, but it found new life and a cult following, on DVD and cable, and now you’ll have the chance to see it again on the big screen (or for the first time if you missed it) when it plays this weekend (September 27^th and 28^th) at the Tivoli as part of their Reel Late at the Tivoli Midnight series.

In addition to the movie, you’ll get to see the The Graveyard Shift  performing SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD live at the Tivoli while the movie is playing on the big screen! Reel Late at the Tivoli Midnight series has teamed up with The Graveyard Shift  before to huge success for the shadow cast version of REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA but this will be the debut of their SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD show so don’t miss it! Be sure to come on time to be a part of their raffle for very rare collection of SCOTT PILGRIM stuff including Blu-rays of the film, Crash and the Boys and Clash at Demonhead video games on Nintendo, Scott Pilgrim Poster and shirt. Saturday night they’ll be raffling a Scott Pilgrim soundtrack on vinyl. And be sure to catch watch The Graveyard Shift’s hilarious pre-show sketch called “What Would Happen if Quentin Tarantino Directed Scott Pilgrim!”

The Facebook invite for the event can be found HERE

https://www.facebook.com/events/294192234060533/

Here’s a couple of photos of The Graveyard Shift rehearsing their SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD ‘Shadow Cast’ event

The Tivoli’s located at 6350 Delmar Blvd., University City, MO. Admission is a mere $8!

The Tivoli’s website can be found HERE

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/st.louis/tivolitheatre.htm

And here’s the ‘Reel Late at the Tivoli’ midnight line-up for the next two weeks:

Oct. 4-5 PSYCHO
Oct. 11-12 DONNIE DARKO (original version)