DBZ Movie: Here We Go Again
 

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazett...c-742949303ea9

Nappa: Vegeta, how many times have they tried to greenlight this movie past pre-production?

Go on, I know you want to answer that question.

In all honesty I hope this comes through. It would probably be a horrible movie, but I'd love to see it.

And thats not remotley what movies are meant to do (see some dated little franchise realized as a s*itty movie)

Vegeta: It's...over NINE THOUSAND!!!!!!!!!!!!! *smash*

You know it had to be done.

Really, How many times has this happened. Five? Ten? Even more? As a kid I would have loved to see a live-action DBZ movie. Now, after so many failed attempts...who cares? We've had some glorious animated movies from the franchise. Why aren't we happy with that? Then again, that's a stupid question. This is Hollywood we are talking about, after all...

But that being said...if it's made, I'll probably go and see it. I've been waiting for this movie for years, so I guess it will satisfy the child within me that never got to see the movie she wanted.

It would be entertaining, and I'd say that's exactly what movies are meant to do.

The Japanese did a live action Dragonball Z type movie called Dragon Pearls....it had the worst CGI I had ever seen. :lol:

Love the description:

A change of heart??? Is that what they're calling amnesia now??:roll:

Ya know who they can get to play Vegeta??

This guy! ---> http://www.bellonock.com/indexdu.html

He's already got the hair... :lol:

I never knew such a movie was made, but you prompted me to google it, and thought some of you might find this....uhh...interesting:thumbsup:

http://i15.tinypic.com/4372qev.jpg

Like Underdog, Inspector Gadget......

Funimation.... if you WANT to make DBZ movies, just release the damn ones you already had into more than 3 theaters nationwide. I'm sure that it would make more money and not just waste a crap load of cash to produce.

And make a new dub of "Curse of the Blood Rubies" while you're at it. Release it as a Double bill with one of the One Piece films.

Well...err...at least Master Roshi looks okay... :|

You dont know what a movie is. You said yourself you expect the movie to be abysmal, yet you now say such a collosal waste of money, time, actors, and resources would be "entertaining?" in some morbid laugh at Hollywood's expense?

Whenever you decide your posts want to make some semblence of cohearant SENSE, come back to this thread.

Look pumpkin, I know this might be hard for an elitist joker like yourself to imagine, but it is actually possible to enjoy 'bad' movies. It's Dragon Ball Z. It was never 'good' to begin with (Do you really want to argue about this?). Of-f*cking-course a movie adaption is going to be 'bad', but that doesn't mean it won't be fun, just like the series.

I know exactly what a movie is, buddy. It's you that seems to have forgotten.

Master Roshi was the BEST thing in that movie!!

The CGI on the dragon is just HORRIBLE...even for 1989 standards. It's an ok film...there are subtle changes in the plot here and there (Goku's not an alien but a descendent of the Monkey King), Grandpa Gohan is killed by the bad guy, ect

I saw this in the original Japanese (with Subtitles) a couple years ago on tv.

Weird. I'd like to get my hands on this 1989 live-action movie.

As for a Hollywood live-action movie...I'd rather not. Not because it's destined to be terrible, but because I'm content with the already numerous animated films.

Wasn't that movie from Hong Kong or Taiwan?

Yeah, it wasn't Japanese nor official.

Yea... it was Chinese... But you gotta remember that the story Dragonball is based on (Journey to the West) originated in China and in Dragonpearl the characters are descended from the Journey to the West characters. So it's sorta a sequel to Journey to the West. Which I like. I LOVE the Journey to the west story (I managed to find me a copy at a used book store years ago) and that's really the only reason I started watching Dragonball/Z/GT in the first place.

I'm sorry, I'm a huge Dragon Ball fan, but I honestly can't see this working...I just CAN'T. Sure I was wrong about Transformers, but I'm pretty sure this will be TERRIBLE...and I'm being optimistic, here.

On another note, there are already THIRTEEN DBZ movies...isn't that enough???!!

The proper count is, what...

3 Dragonball movies

1 Dragonball Anniversary movie

1 Dragonball live action movie

13 Dragonball Z movies

2 Dragonball Z TV movies

1 Dragonball GT TV movie


Dragonball Z is a guilty pleasure of mine. I've reviewed most of the movies over at Filmsy and I own all of them (I prefer the movies over the TV series because they're more condensed). A big-budget live action film would be terribly hard to pull off but I'd be there opening day no matter what.

As far as filming in Montreal goes, 300 was also filmed there on a lot entirely within the confines of a blue screen environment. I imagine DBZ would be done in a similar way.

The DBGT movie is is about Goku Jr ,the great-great-grandson of Goku. He lives with his grandmother, Pan. It's never mentioned what happened to his parents tho. He's basically a wimp but Goku's spirit helps him along a bit. It's a pretty good film. Saw the subbed version on tv (gods Im glad I have a channel that showed DB/Z/GT unedited) a couple years back.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hero%27s_Legacy

Goku Jr is seen briefly fighting Vegeta Jr in the final ep of DBGT but A Hero's Legacy is how Goku Jr gained courage.

I can only enjoy a bad film if it contains "plan 9 from" in the title, or Leslie Nielsen is involved in anyway. And Don't call me Shirley!

I REALLY don't want to see this happen. i'd rather like to see the Chinese film instead. It's much funnier sounding.

And why if they need to make this a movie can't they just make it all CGI? it took them 2 Garfield Live action films to realize people just want to see a straightforward animated version.

How many of the DragonBall animated so-called movies exceeded an hour? Even though I know they were meant to be movies, I can't think of a 45-minute feature that's in continuity with the series as a movie. And, I certainly wouldn't buy a full-price movie ticket for less than 75 minutes.

For the movie, are they still talking Jackie Chan? I always thought that was the dumbest idea. Supposing they do a faithful adaptation (which I kinda' doubt), the majority of the fighting isn't hand-to-hand anyway. Chan's talents would be totally wasted.

They'd probably put them as they were intended to be, a double or triple bill. What we Americans DON'T have that the Japanese have is a bill of multiple animated movies. For example, I once saw a youtube posted commercial for a triple feature of Ultimate Muscle, Digimon, and something Else I forgot. So, naturally they only have the rights to release the movies they have the rights to the shows to in the first place on DVD.

They could clearly put a bunch of them together as a special feature.

But when you make a live action cartoon, you either remain faithful to the original product, and stray off on some small tangent that ruins the film (Bullwinkle) or toss everything out the window and make something for a target demographic that doesn't care about it, while alienating the fan base (Underdog). Either way, you're not making the Flintstones 1 here, which was the only one that actually did well.

Forgot to say: if those 45-minute DB features are to be called movies, why isn't "PLANET OF THE TURTLOIDS" considered a movie? It's also just a double-length episode. This is a case of having your cake and trying to eat it too. The short DB features may be movies in Japan, but they're just specials outside of Japan. Only anime purists insist otherwise.

Imdb.com lists Planet of the Turtleoids as a movie. I always thought of it as a movie *shrugs*

There were at least a few that were 60 minutes or more, but you're right, most of them were around 45-50 minutes.

I guess it just depends on what they are marketed as. The DBZ movies were marketed as movies in Japan and were aired in theaters, so they are generally considered to be movies (although they could also be seen as specials). Planet of the Turtleoids was marketed as a TV special and was aired in prime time as one, so it is generally considered to be a special (although it could also be seen as a movie or even as a two-part episode).

And let's also keep in mind that In Japan, several movies are released that are only a half hour long.

Yeah, its all marketing.

In Japan, they actually took episodes of Beast Wars and showed them in theaters as "movies". The first one was "Bad Spark" shown alongside a new 45 minute Beast Wars II short film, while the second was "The Cutting Edge" shown alongside two other short films based on Takara toy properties (Microman and Super Doll Rikka-chan).

They were just normal episodes of the TV series, shown on TV in the US with absolutely nothing special about them. But in Japan, they've considered "movies" because they were shown in theaters.

Wu Jing would make a good Goku.
He's in his early 30's (which is around the same age as Goku was during most of the DBZ series), he's friendly-looking, fights really well and trained in chinese wushu. For those not in the know, check him out in "SPL" (retitled as "Kill Zone" in the US).

And a lot of the time, these films just retell something that already happened. I.e Curse of the Blood Rubies was an alternate version of how Goku met Bulma and the rest, Magical Journey was a retelling of the Tao Pai Pai saga.... They have 2 One Piece movies that are just retellings of other plot lines coming out.

They're not in continuity, though. They take things from continuity, but they don't quite fit right if you actually look at them compared to the series itself. At least with the two DBZ TV specials you can see that they're in continuity. This is especially true with the Trunks special as it's actually an extended version of a mini-chapter of the manga.

Did anyone read what I posted about how they basically just retell things in an alternate universe of what happened? None of the movies of any anime that I know of really are ment to have a continuity. There may be some, but unless the script is written by the original manga-kas and it actually happened in the original story (which it never is on both counts) it isn't supposed to have continuity.

crap! Looks like it's happening....
 

http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=19169

From Toonzone:

http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=19709

Worst casting ever? :lol:

There've been worse. And, with the bleak expectation from the DB-fans, I'm surprised it's not worse.

OMG!! James Marsters is Piccolo?! :o

That is just TOO funny!!! I have a crush on both Piccolo and James Marsters so it's a win win for me!

Justin Chatwin is cute too!

hey! As long as Will Smith isn't anywhere near the damn film, I'll sleep better tonight.

But all and all, still a stupid idea as far as movies go.

(Ugh), darned rule 32...

Dragon Ball Z movie
 

To be directed by James Wong, and produced by Stephen Chow. I'm sure most of you have heard the news, and I was kinda surprised there was'nt a thread on it yet. Justin Chatwin(War of the Worlds) is playing Goku, and James Masters( Buggy the Vampire Slayer) will be playing Piccolo. Also, 85% will be shot in Mexico. I dont have a direct link to anything, but if you feel like checking up on it, just go look at the shh boards. Plenty of people discussing it on there.

I have'nt been that into Dragon Ball Z since I was a kid. And personally, I really only enjoyed the characters, and hated the pacing. But I'm anxious to see this, as I envision it being either the next "transformers" or a complete(although hilarious) disaster.

There is a thread on it.