Two newly announced collaborations are making my birthday a very special one. In one corner we have the casting of Michael Cera in an Edgar Wright film, which seems almost like an intentional gift from a regular SpoutBlog reader. The only thing missing is the news that this film will also feature the Muppets, a plot involving an Objectivist teleporter and a 3-year-old Star Wars fan. The Cera/Wright team-up is titled Scott Pilgrim’s Little Life, and structurally it sounds like Wright’s Shaun of the Dead. Based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel Scott Pilgrim Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life, and scripted by Wright and Michael Bacall (Manic), the story involves a “young slacker” (Cera) who must defeat the evil ex-boyfriends of the girl he loves in order to win her heart. As if Cera couldn’t win any girl’s heart just by doing nothing.

See the video above for the first sorta collaboration between Wright and Cera (and Jonah Hill).

The other collaboration seems like a gift from someone who reads my SpoutBlog posts and does not like me. But as much as I’ll criticize both Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler for their latest efforts, I have been a huge fan of each in time and am hoping to favor them both again in the future. And if Shawn Adler at MTV Movies Blog is right in his presumption that the untitled movie to be directed by Apatow and star Sandler will be comparable to Punch-Drunk Love, then the future is rather close. According to the director, the plan is to make a relationship movie that’s also a “hilarious drama”. It will co-star Seth Rogen and Apatow’s wife, Leslie Mann.

As far as movie-related birthday goodness goes, these two bits of news make up for my deciding that I’m too tired to spend my birthday evening at Film Forum watching Last Year at Marienbad.