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    A live action version of Manga's Dragonball is in the works for a August 2008 release by 20th Century Fox.

    Produced by Stephen Chow
    Directed by James Wong

    Justin Chatwin as Goku
    James Marsters as Piccolo
    Emmy Rossum as Bulma

    Don't know who that Justin guy is, but James Marsters rocked it on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel; and Emmy Rossum is a hottie that can act.

    Can't wait. Hope it turns out well.

    http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/za...news-headlines

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1098327/

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    Is this some kind of a joke? Why are whites being asked to take the roles of Asians? I'm not sure about Piccolo and Bulma but Goku is obviously an Asian name, nya?
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    Well darlin, it's HollyWood. Plus they couldn't find a Namekian to play Piccolo.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Guo Xiang View Post
    Is this some kind of a joke? Why are whites being asked to take the roles of Asians? I'm not sure about Piccolo and Bulma but Goku is obviously an Asian name, nya?
    Goku definitely is an Asian name; however in the anime he looks half-and-half to me. - and when he went Super Sayian, he looked more Caucasian. Bulma also looks half and half to me. Piccolo is a green alien so ethnicity is irrelevant.

    With an Asian producer and director, I would've expected that at least Goku would be an Asian actor.

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    Son Goku=Japanese for the Monkey King
    Sun Wukong=Chinese
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    This is gonna be sooooo wierd... hmm wonder what a haduken would look like in REAL LIFE...

    Interesting... Stephen Chow is the producer :P but the director doesnt look like he has that much experience .
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    Apparently it's Fox who decides the cast. Stephen Chow had introduced Zhang Yuqi, Edison Chen etc. for the cast but Fox rejected his recommendations and went ahead to get their own cast instead.

    http://www.xin.sg/article.php?category=81&article=12665
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    Anyone found a picture for this movie? I wanna see how they'll all look like, hahaha!

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    Chow Yun Fat has joined the cast as Master Roshi

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    so is this Dragon Ball Z? o Dragon Ball? hope they have Vegeta....

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    i hope asian people can make a movie out of this one too, cause it'll be more better since dragonball z charaters are asian people. its just going tobe weird with white people playing those characters.

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    hey guest what a chinese girl will be playing chichi, a white girl will be playing bulma, emma rossum

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    this is like one of those bad dramas with lyf and edison chen in it.

    disgusting. . .absolutely disgusting!
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    Quote Originally Posted by resident:alien View Post
    this is like one of those bad dramas with lyf and edison chen in it.

    disgusting. . .absolutely disgusting!
    stop saying stuff about my girl lyf and my boi edison, not enough for u to say bad stuff about them on there thread so u want to start here.

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    your girl and boy? wow, didn' t know you were a mom. oh, it's 3:00! shouldn't you be picking up your kids, s****r mom?
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    UK, March 5, 2008 - There will be no live-action Dragonball movie this year, after 20th Century Fox announced today that it is pushing back the anime-adaptation from 15th August 2008 to 3rd April 2009.

    The studio gave no official explanation for the reschedule, although it's believed the project was moved to avoid it competing against Fox's own Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the Ben Stiller comedy Tropic Thunder, which are released the same week.

    The film - an adaptation of the insanely popular manga created by Akira Toriyama - stars Justin Chatwin, James Marsters, Jamie Chung, Emmy Rossum and Chow Yun-Fat.
    - http://au.movies.ign.com/articles/856/856985p1.html

    the other two movies mentioned, star wars: the clone wars - is coming out on 15 of august 08 and is directed by Dave Filoni and written by George Lucas
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    Default An Asian Dragonball Movie would have been......

    I agree with the earlier comment on having Asian Actors in the Lead positions for the Dragonball movie but as always, everyone is too afraid or will not have the balls to lobby for it. Also, Goku was an alien really who happen to look sort of human. Most American-made action movies "suck" when compared to Asian action movies and speaking of; Asian production companies need to get on the ball. For example, they should have done a real life Dragonball project a long time ago. Also, projects on Naruto, Bleach, Final Fantasy and a host of others should have been done by now (Especially with the recent CGI Technology). Unfortunately; If it happens, a lot of those will end up being done by Americans too, sad. I hope Stephen Chow will have the dignity to keep some of the Asian Culture in the movie.
    (Jet Li gets my vote as Vegeta)

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    I just hope their hair looks good, especially when they turned into ssj, that's what's cool about DBZ.

    It would be good if they are doing a Triology(2hours+ each) so that Freezer, Cell and Buu will be in it.
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    i am a die hard fan of db, dbz, dbgt and lets just say this live action will either be reallllllllllllll good or reallllllllllllllllll bad.
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    I get flashbacks of the OLD Dragonball live action movie... the chinese one. Or was it japanese? Well, at least it was soooo bad :-D

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