Edgar Wright has revealed that it was the 'bananas' aspect of Scott Pilgrim vs the World that attracted him to the project.
Wright, the man behind films such as Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, is back in the director's chair this week as he brings Bryan Lee O'Malley's comic to the big screen.
Speaking to Time Out the filmmaker said: "The film is roughly equidistant between 'Ghost World' and 'X-Men', which for a studio is completely bananas. But that's what attracted me to it.
"A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight', or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300'.
"This was an attempt to embrace the magical realism of comic books - I wanted it to be a real pop art explosion.
"The special effects are very bespoke... It was a bigger budget than 'Hot Fuzz', and I wanted it to look like it cost twice as much as it did. You go to some summer movies which cost $200 million, and you just think, 'Where the f**k did that go?'
"So I wanted to make sure it looked like there was a lot of money on screen."
This is the first movie for Wright since the success of Hit fuzz back in 2007, although he did pen the script for Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn in that time.
His next project sees him step into the superhero genre with Ant Man.
Scott Pilgrim vs the World is out now.
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