Dragonball: Evolution
 

Directed by James Wong (Final Destination)
Produced by Steven Chow (Shaolin Soccer)
Stunt team did 300 and The Matrix among other things.

Current Cast/Characters:
Chow Yun-Fat - Master Roshi
Emmy Rossun - Bulma
Jamie Chung - Chi Chi
Justin Chatwin - Goku
James Marsters - 'Demon King' Piccolo

There's alot of reasons this may be a disaster; but there's some pretty credible names up there. I'll be watching this project with great interest.

This movie is even later in coming out than The Simpsons Movie.

But it looks like they're kinda basing it off of Dragonball instead of Dragonball Z, which is definitely a step in the right direction since regular Dragonball was much better. In my opinion.

They should use elements from all three incarnations. I'd love to see a live action Broly battle.

Screw GT.

In fact, Screw Broly, FN Toei

So the kid from war of the worlds, and that backsreet boy-looking fellow from buffy.

Great casting.

This can only be really bad or really good, I honestly don't think there's any middle ground :o

Whatever happens, though, I know I'm going to actually be watching this in the theaters.

I look at this cast and think WTF, shit is crazy.

Gonna be weird if anything. Def too late tho.

The movie industry officially has or has had too much fuckin' money. :nono:

Yeah, it's Dragonball. ...Not Z. Thank God. The plot involves Goku and Bulma getting the Dragonballs before Piccolo does.



And most of those years in "development Hell" were heresay and rumor propagated by internet fandom, and not any actual period in which a real movie was being worked on.

Furthermore, Eriko Tamura is being cast as Mai, meaning there may or may not be Pilaf action.

http://blogs.hoycinema.com/myfiles/m...nd/dbzmex1.jpg

Goku on set.



Niggers.

Yeah I'll be seeing this. It's gonna blow hard though

All the Dragonball cartoons were complete trash. An American live action movie based on it has to be the biggest pile of fail ever.

Im interested to see James Marsters in this...

I love the guy and im glad to finally see him in a lead part in a movie.

Ive heard there were two screenshots floating around....of Goku and Piccolo

Would love to see what Marsters looks like in character

This will not be good.

The piccolo one is a fan made thing. As is the goku in-costume pic. Only pic so far is the goku street clothes one.

yeah i dont know i loved db and dbz but the cast looks werid. I liked DBZ alot better but it would have been harder to convert into a film.

This has Mortal Kombat Annihilation-level-suck, written all over it.

Now that you mention it, there will be another Mortal Kombat movie in a few years.

If anyone can produce a Dragon Ball movie that is actually good, it would be Stephen Chow. He's just got the right attitude and skill for such a project. I'm not too big on some of the casting, though, but we'll see how it goes.

Robin Shou would actually make a damn good Goku. He's got the martial arts skill, and I think he would play the role well.

Emmy Rossun seems right for Bulma, as does Jamie Chung for Chi Chi. With some make-up, Chow Yun-Fat would actually be a brilliant Master Roshi. I don't know enough about Justin Chatwin, but hopefully he does well with it. James Marsters is an odd choice for Piccolo, but hopefully he is a surprise.

This is going to be so wondefully stupid, I've gotta see it.

I used to mark out for Piccolo..

Piccolo was the fucking balls.

I always thought that Sam L Jackson would have made an awesome piccolo

It's been pushed back untill April 2009.

Dunno about James Marsters being Piccalo. I can't wait to see him on the big screen (and I will go just to see him ftr) but it's and odd casting choice.

Looks pretty terrible.

Holding out judgment 'til I see a trailer.

That's saying a lot. You're probably right though.

That pic makes me sure of it.

They should have made it purposely cartoony, like the upcoming speed racer flick. WOuld have been able to follow the plot, and character design more closely, rather than take this pseudo-realistic route, which will undoubtedly fail miserably.

That pic IS awfully cartoony, what are you talking about? The only other cartoony thing they coulda done was try to give him the ridiculously sized anime-hair.

oh my god my hopes for this film just went down a few pegs...

they should have went with the giant hair

Yeah if you are gonna blow it you mine as well blow it all the way.

That pic is just a production shot, we don't know how the end result will look after effects and such. I'll still wait.

You wait, it will still suck.

Regal knows

lol that kid looks like such a dork.

http://www.animecorporation.com/news...ve-action-pics

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