Bryan Lee OMalley said Scott Pilgrim movie was too white

“Honestly, when I saw the ‘Scott Pilgrim’ movie it was kind of appalling to see just how white it was — to not even really see myself represented on the screen,” he wrote.

Scott Pilgrim has been criticized for being incredibly white, which is particularly notable as Bryan Lee O'Malley is half-Korean. O'Malley himself responded to the criticism in a tumblr post in 2013: Honestly, when i saw the Scott Pilgrim movie it was kind of appalling to see just how white it was ...

The World was a very enjoyable movie, and the premise is hardly as crappy in its gender politics as many BadReppers thought it might be, but it is sad that so much of the material from the comics was lost.

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He goes on to talk about how “complicated” the whole situation is, in a post that is both thoughtful about the movie’s whitewashing — as well as how white his comic book already was. Read more on O’Malley’s Tumblr.

Bryan Lee O'Malley has apologised that Scott Pilgrim was "so white".

O’Malley refutes the IMDB‘s claim that the film doesn’t have a screenplay, saying he read the first draft in March of ’06, and that the second draft “was submitted in October, just before the writers’ strike.” He names Michael Bacall and Edgar Wright as the writers.

>>84501595 https://en.wikipedi... and making them white for the audience. O'Malley wanted Scott Pilgrim to represent himself, but instead of making Scott a hapa, he chose to make him white in order to appeal to a wider audience....

The result is that, some meta antics involving a film about Scott’s life aside, “Scott Pilgrim Takes Off” is almost completely lacking in Scott Pilgrim for a good five episodes.