DBZ live-action Hollywood film - HAHA

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 03 Sep 2007, 11:24

Sure fire candidate for the Razzies... and LD's MOTY.

Live-Action DBZ Set to Shoot in Montreal
Shooting will begin shortly for 20th Century Fox's upcoming live-action adaptation of Dragonball Z. The budget for the film is estimated to be at least US$100 million. This will be one of three big-budget movies that Fox will film in Montreal over the fall and winter,along with a sequel to Ben Stiller's "A Night at the Museum" and a Roland Emerich remake of 1966's "Fantastic Voyage." Production work on all three films is expected to wrap up by July of next year. Source: Montreal Gazette
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slasher13 · Post by **slasher13** » 03 Sep 2007, 11:41

Nah!!, I can't believe that they could even think about doing this!, This has got to be a joke!!. If it isn't... then oh my god!!!!

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 03 Sep 2007, 11:43

Hopefully it turns out as awesomely bad as this original Dragonball L-A film sounds.
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/dragonball/
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/movie-r ... -magic.php

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 03 Sep 2007, 14:46

MOTY?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 03 Sep 2007, 14:50

Movie of the Year?

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 03 Sep 2007, 14:56

Ah, ok.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 03 Sep 2007, 15:55

Wow... I hope they will cast Matt Damon as Goku!
I cant wait to watch this movie the theatres, and be there for 9 hours untill they have finished 1 fight.

Sounds like a horrible horrible idea. They should have gone for all CGI, like the Final Fantasy 7 movie...
Hollywood dumb-asses. You can tell they have a really cocaine problem over there...

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 03 Sep 2007, 16:12

Yi-Long wrote:They should have gone for all CGI, like the Final Fantasy 7 movie...

Didn't stop that movie from being total garbage.

slasher13 · Post by **slasher13** » 03 Sep 2007, 17:24

EvaUnit02 wrote:
Yi-Long wrote:They should have gone for all CGI, like the Final Fantasy 7 movie...
Didn't stop that movie from being total garbage.

Which one, Spirit Within or Advent Children..Err I liked them both

The ending fighting of Advent Children was very impressive with the guardian appearing.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 03 Sep 2007, 17:33

Advent Children. Complete trash, totally appropriate because the game is rubbish as well.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 03 Sep 2007, 19:45

I dont know the game, and thought the movie was just OK, but that's besides the point. CGI will bring you much closer to what you want to accomplish in portraying such a story based on a game/cartoon/comic onto the screen, whereas with real actors you have that problem of casting etc...

The problem with Final Fantasy wasnt the gorgeous CGI, but it was the storytelling. So FF7 would have sucked even more if it had been a live-action movie.

slasher13 · Post by **slasher13** » 19 Nov 2007, 15:57

:twisted:
Oh dear.. Got more info on this:

From Hollywood Reporter
Directorial and casting confirmations have finally come in on the new Dragonball movie, with James Marsters (Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) playing Piccolo, the reformed green Namekian alien. Directing the film will be thriller vet James Wong, who wrote and directed Final Destination 1 and 3. Justin Chatwin will play Goku, the uber-hero and protector of earth. The film will supposedly follow Goku’s discovery that he’s actually a humanoid alien sent to Earth to destroy it. Since he’s so kind of heart (as all heroes are), Goku defends his home planet against an onslaught of alien baddies

Source: http://www.fearnet.com/MCNewsDetailPage ... &mid=11659

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 19 Nov 2007, 19:44

Holy shit, the seriously annoying son from War of the Worlds is playing Goku! Oh this is going to be soooooo good!

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 19 Nov 2007, 20:01

Hey its bound to better than the crap thats out in cinemas latley, esspecially Potter and all the other fantasy crap.

Bring on the hair gel!

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 19 Nov 2007, 20:14

romerojpg wrote:Hey its bound to better than the crap thats out in cinemas latley, esspecially Potter and all the other fantasy crap.

told you 2007 was a crap year for cinema

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 06 Jan 2008, 21:09

LOL, Chow Yun-fat seems to have signed to play the part of Muten Roshi.

With all due respect to the original Dragon Ball (Z) manga series, but even for the money I wouldn't destroy my good reputation by starring in a "Dragon Ball Z" film instead of teaming up with John Woo again.

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 06 Jan 2008, 22:05

There's just no way this is going to be any good! DragonBall Z is just about the most unadaptable shounen series I can think of!