Chow Yun-Fat Joins Dragonball Z

Posted by EAmaddenFTW - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 1:38 PM

I absolutely WILL see this movie...as a comedy. And I will LMAO into oblivion at the train wreck before my eyes.

Seriously, they should have done this movie with an advanced anime art style, or full CGI (a la FFVII: Advent Children) I can't imagine DBZ live action.

And Chow-Yun Fat huh? Who's he going to play? Mr. Popo? Master Roshi? LOL

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Posted by play3rtwo - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 1:38 PM

Looking really good... Can't wait to see it!

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Posted by patrick_3005 - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 1:45 PM

Damn, this movie was rumored to be happening like 6 years ago, but now its finally coming to fruition, probably like 4 years too late?? I would've loved to see Jet Li as Vegetta, Jackie Chan as Goku, somehow make him younger, and Chow Young Fat as someone else cool. I dunno..... But that's sweet its happening for real..

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Posted by electrox3d - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 1:52 PM

wait.. its based on a trading card game?

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Posted by Hyphnip - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 2:03 PM

I've never heard of a DBZ trading card game.
Then again, I think that all those trading card games are lame so I don't really pay attention.
I want to see a Perfect Hair Forever movie!

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Posted by XxGodsMistakeXx - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 2:10 PM

Oddly enough is see potential in this movie.

Lets keep our fingers cross hoping it doesn't suck complete ass

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Posted by wag317 - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 2:11 PM

Vegetta what does the meter say about Chow Young Fat's pay level?

IT"S OVER 9,000!!!

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Posted by hetman - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 2:13 PM

I never really watched DBZ but im not knocking it. I think the movie can be done well. As long as they take it seriously. Once I we see a trailer we will have a better idea of which way they are going with the movie.

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Posted by Sunloc - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 2:32 PM

http://www.daizex.com/ heres a great site and podcast for all you dragonball lovers.

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Posted by DemonicDragon333 - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 2:42 PM

trading card game??? get your facts straight it was anime, the card game sucked and lasted a week. get your facts right thefeed this is like when you said sakurai was on a mexican radio show and i was like what hell is wrong with you and then a couple days later you said oops sorry we just reposted some retards facts that we assumed was true

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Posted by hetman - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 2:48 PM

@ demonicdragon. Their is a difference between anime and manga. And they are technically right even if the CCG only lasted a week.

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Posted by fedaykin0 - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 2:52 PM

this movie is going to have to be ten hours long to accomodate all of the 'let me charge up my ultra cool power' scenes. and why the hell is piccolo a villain?! this IS supposed to be DBZ, right? of course, thefeed reported that, so he'll most likely just end up in background making tea, or something.

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Posted by fedaykin0 - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 2:54 PM

and i loooove how thefeed doesn't point out any of the martial arts films that Chow Yun-Fat has done. Crouching. . .something, Hidden. . .i don't know.

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Posted by pacman1979 - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 2:56 PM

Dragon Ball will suck... Have you heard Goku will be a student???!!! He will fight with some bullies in a party where he will meet Chichi???!!!

Gosh... Why not name it: The Karate Kid with Superpowers!!!

My expectations have totally vanished...

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Posted by hetman - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:02 PM

Didnt Picollo begin as the main bad guy in DBZ or was that just in DB where he is the main bad guy?

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Posted by fedaykin0 - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:08 PM

@hetman:

you are correct. he was against Goku until the other Saiyans showed up. which is what bothers me, as that happens in like the second episode.

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Posted by The_Juno - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:08 PM

Oh lord...no.

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Posted by yamato84 - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:12 PM

ok first of all thefeed this is taking place before DBZ so the headline should just be Dragon Ball. Secondly Piccolo is going to be the villian because they are taking the premise from the King Piccolo Saga so NO VEGETA.

Now this movie is not going to be a carbon copy of the manga or the anime. This is going to be one of those movies similar to Super Mario Brothers where sure the movie has the name but it has nothing to do with the source material outside of the names of the characters, locations, and the relationships between the characters.

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Posted by yamato84 - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:13 PM

ok first of all thefeed this is taking place before DBZ so the headline should just be Dragon Ball. Secondly Piccolo is going to be the villian because they are taking the premise from the King Piccolo Saga so NO VEGETA.

Now this movie is not going to be a carbon copy of the manga or the anime. This is going to be one of those movies similar to Super Mario Brothers where sure the movie has the name but it has nothing to do with the source material outside of the names of the characters, locations, and the relationships between the characters.

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Posted by TheRufio - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:18 PM

Here is why this movie will fail:

1) How the hell are they going to do their hair in live action?

2) No Super Sayains.

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Posted by fedaykin0 - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:27 PM

@TheRufio:

3) This franchise is no longer relevant.

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Posted by TheRufio - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:30 PM

@fedaykin

4)It's a rumbled cartoon.

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Posted by swifty_snail - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:31 PM

Holy Crap... some of you really need to see a naked woman in real life!!!

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Posted by neonchez - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:31 PM

@yamato84

in other words, it's going to be a huge disappointment for the fans of the series. which i'm not one of, btw.

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Posted by TheRufio - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:34 PM

@swifty-snail

There are 23 positions in a one night stand.

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Posted by XxGodsMistakeXx - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:56 PM

@Pacman1979

IF what u say is true this will suck complete ass no doubt about it

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Posted by Archonic20 - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:25 PM

CG DBZ movie = Possibility to be decent.

Real Life DBZ movie = fail (more than likely)

I don't think even Chow Yun-Fat could stop this train wreck.

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Posted by mechabeast - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:51 PM

My cousin...who knows a guy...whos friends with a girl...who works for a guy in Hollywood got me a script.

*caution: spoilers ahead*

Act 1
AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhh!
Act 2
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhh!
Act 3 Epic Fail!

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Posted by sdcrews - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 6:20 PM

I was kinda of scared of this movie at firat with Spike being Piccolo and Goku being some white kid, but this has definitely has peaked my interest now. Chow Yun-Fat made Bulletproof Monk bearable so maybe he can for this. I guess I'll find out next year. I hope a trailer comes out soon though.

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Posted by hetman - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 7:49 PM

I agree bulletproof monk was bearable. It could have been so much worst. I think this movie can turn out good.

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Posted by UnJakeable - Thursday, December 20, 2007 6:18 AM

This is gonna suck every thing hollywood does turns to crap. As a HUGE DBZ fan I NEVER want to see this series made into a movie. Theres just now way the could take the light hearted humor mixed with the over the top action and blend it together in real life. Why?? because real people don't go super sayain level 4 !!!

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Posted by Vendetta187 - Thursday, December 20, 2007 6:49 AM

You little one gotta chillax for a second and take a breather.

First off everone is assuming and spiting out opinions without having any idea what you speak of. Give it a chance before you burn it to the ground.
Second, its a DRAGONBALL movie for goodness sake. wheather bad or good everyone of ya will watch it. even those of you posting bad comments about the movie before even seeing what it acually looks like.

it will be intresting to see where they go with it.

I predict Super Sayian Transformation at the very end battle scene leaving the movie open for sequels.
-VeN187

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Posted by Vendetta187 - Thursday, December 20, 2007 6:59 AM

@Jakeeable
you have obviously never seen a big buget movie that has intergrated CGI with acually live action footage.
If hollywood can combine dinosaurs and human together and make it look real they can defenetly change black hair to yellow with ease.

:freakin' idiots, i swear:

If they can make the fighting scenes look like the one in matrix 3 (Neo and Smith fight). Then we have an exciting movie to wait for. Anything less would be sad.

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Posted by Vendetta187 - Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:06 AM

real people dont turn super sayain 4, only sayains turn super sayain. DB dont show humans turning into sayains in the manga or series.
Why do you thing they'll do it in the movie. Just cause its live action doesnt mean there gonna make Goku and Gohan human they'll still be sayains. duh..

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Posted by hetman - Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:45 AM

Is picollo going to be green? @vendetta you are right Im not even a huge fan of DBZ but I will definatly watch this movie. Either it is going to good, or so bad that it is fun to watch. Either way it seems entertaing. I would like to see DB and make sure that goku has a tale.

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Posted by fedaykin0 - Thursday, December 20, 2007 9:00 AM

@vendetta187:

yeah, good point. i'm sure ILM will be doing all the effects, so what do we have to worry about? toerag.

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Posted by WilliVanilli - Thursday, December 20, 2007 9:31 AM

1)you cannont, simply cannot have any super sayain anything in this movie.

2)its little goku, king piccolo, earth, and some people. no vegetta, no villain but king piccolo.

3)he doesn't go super sayain till the freiza saga (you all know that)

4)He doesn't have a kid in that period so no gohan.

5)he would have already met chi-chi.

this movie will probably suck if they make it like Super Mario Brothers but dammit, I'm seeing it anyway.

but seriously. who's chow yun fat gonna be? the closest thing to an asian in the series was Uub and he was black.

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Posted by anonomousperson - Thursday, December 20, 2007 9:31 AM

I gotta say. I hope the sequences follow the style that made the Dragonball series capture our imagination. Hopefully the cg of the buildings and mountains and Kamehameha waves of destruction look real and not like an afterthought. I wonder if Bulma will have greenish blue hair? Will she be a whore in the movie as well? Will her and Goku have a little tryst? Will Chi Chi's dad be the size of a Mac truck? Time answers all questions.

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Posted by fedaykin0 - Thursday, December 20, 2007 9:51 AM

@WilliVanilli:

they're going to collect all the dragon balls and resurrect Li Mu Bai.

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Posted by FJR12 - Thursday, December 20, 2007 10:37 AM

@ swifty_snail

Naked women and sex are not always the answer for everything.

Now, for my thoughts of this movie: the script better follow the King Piccolo saga the right way or it's gonna suck badly. Also, for ending, make sure it takes place when Goku and ChiChi get married, have a son named Gohan with a tail, and bring us a special surprise for a sequel: Raditz!

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Posted by hetman - Thursday, December 20, 2007 11:50 AM

@FJR I beg to differ. Naked women and sex are always the answer to everything. Those two things and beer.

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Posted by GreenQuadrant - Thursday, December 20, 2007 4:46 PM

Justin Chatwin as Goku? Well.... he does looks a little like him but he better pop alot of steroids because he's one skinny mofo.

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Posted by ICP420EVA - Friday, December 21, 2007 11:46 PM

All of you are idiots. There is already a Live-Action DB movie out there. It was released in a Spanish dub quite a few years back.

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Posted by KitanaAsh - Sunday, December 23, 2007 12:51 AM

Chow Yun-Fat is said to be playing Master Roshi. Follow the link that Sunloc gave out. From the looks of it,a live action movie really is coming out.
If Pilaf is in it,it's DEFIENTLY going to be DB,unless they suddenly decide to jump all the way to DBGT for no reason,which would be weird. They might just compress big moments into one big 3-hr movie,and then probably do DBZ,then DBGT later on. I guess it depends on what the company/writers want to do. If the effects are done by the same company that did The Matrix,I'll wait impatiently,if not,I'll pray. Lol

I'm looking foward to it either way,and I think everyone should give it a chance,give everything a try at least once,don't like it? Then leave.

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Posted by Malcontent133 - Friday, January 11, 2008 4:02 PM

This movie is a horrable mistake. I Love Dragon Ball Z / GT. And am very knowlageable to everything about the books and show.
And I long to see a live action movie. However i doubt it could ever been done without hollywood distroying it.

Even if they were to create the hair correctly, it will look foolish.
Other people that have posted comments here talking of "jet-lee" to be goku are..are morons.
Dragon Ball combat isn't about flashy kung-fu fighting. (watch the show AGAIN)
This movie will be alienated from it's fan base. Goku being played by the next unknown pretty face.
I believe that they had picked whice saga to cover so they wouldn't have truely creat what dragon ball z was. In 3 words dragon ball was speed, power and speed.
Creating the fight between picoloo and goku at the world martial art t.

..in other words, this movie is a mistake

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