December 14, 2008 : Rock The Dragon!
Check out the trailer for the upcoming Dragonball Movie.
After years of rumors, it looks like the DBZ series will finally create a live action movie. The flick, scheduled to come out in April of next year, occurs during the Dragonball portion of the time line. This means that Goku is pretty young (in high school, which is slightly older than what he was in the anime/ manga) and Piccolo is the antagonist.
As a huge fan of DBZ, I can say I am definitely interested in the movie – and optimistic that it will be worth watching. After all, Stephen Chow of Kung Fu Hustle fame is producing it. In addition to that, Chow Yun-Fat stars as Master Roshi and the stunt performance company that worked on the Matrix is working on the film. They even have Winston from Ghostbusters (Ernie Hudson) in it!
My only concern is that the movie will deviate too far from the anime/ manga. While this has positives (the movie opted to cut out certain crappy characters like Turtle, Puar, and Oolong), it could lose it’s authenticity that made DBZ so awesome. At which point, this could upset a lot of hardcore fans and result in an overall lousy product.
Ultimately, the success of the first movie will dictate if future ones get made. Hopefully the movie will be worth the wait and live up to the franchise’s reputation. Even though I was a hoping a Dragonball movie would eventually come to fruition, I am really waiting to see a live action Vegeta on the big screen – that will truly be awesome. And sadly, that requires a sequel or two…which means more waiting.
posted by Pi Visuals at 4:53 pm
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I had no idea until now that Stephen Chow is involved with this movie! Very interesting.