Chow Yun-Fat Boards Dragonball Source: The Hollywood Reporter December 19, 2007
Chow Yun-Fat will star in 20th Century Fox's live-action adaptation of Dragonball, says The Hollywood Reporter.
Chow will play Master Roshi. He rounds out a cast that includes Justin Chatwin, James Marsters, Emmy Rossum and Jamie Chung.
Dragonball is shooting in Mexico City and Los Angeles.
The film, directed by James Wong, follows Goku (Chatwin), a warrior alien who protects the Earth from an endless stream of rogues bent on dominating the universe and controlling mystical objects known as Dragon Balls. Stephen Chow is producing.
Master Roshi is Goku's mentor, helping him achieve the highest state of fighting and spiritual powers.
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marsters is going to play fajita - i am really looking forward to this. i remember watching the first four or so saga's on Cartoon Network years ago
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Being a big Dragon Ball geek since junior high, I've thought about it a million ways, but there is no way to make a good adaptation. Considering there is over 3000 pages of story before you even get to the "z" half of the series, they're going to half to completely redo the story, they won't have any budget (which if they are going to go into the space parts of the story would cost probably 150 million to make representable), they have crappy actors (James Marsters, who is doing a good job at being typecast as complete douchebag comic book characters). There is no way this will be any better than say then the Dead or Alive movie, or the chinese Dragon Ball movie from 20 years ago.
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the verb to trust wrote:
Being a big Dragon Ball geek since junior high, I've thought about it a million ways, but there is no way to make a good adaptation. Considering there is over 3000 pages of story before you even get to the "z" half of the series, they're going to half to completely redo the story, they won't have any budget (which if they are going to go into the space parts of the story would cost probably 150 million to make representable), they have crappy actors (James Marsters, who is doing a good job at being typecast as complete douchebag comic book characters). There is no way this will be any better than say then the Dead or Alive movie, or the chinese Dragon Ball movie from 20 years ago.
My thoughts exactly. It'll probably turn out to be a poor Mortal Kombat
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Hinny wrote:
Could be worse- they could be doing a Dragon Ball GT - The Movie.
Actually the more adventure oriented plot of GT would be better for a movie...
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