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Whatever happened to that live action Dragonball Z movie?

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Whatever happened to that live action Dragonball Z movie?

Postby UltraPrimal » Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:24 am

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I remember reading a long time ago that a live action Dragonball Z movie was in the works starring Tom Welling(aka Smallville's Clark Kent) as Goku. I can't find anything about it on IMDB. Was the movie cancelled? I hope not. I grew up watching the Dragonball series', in addition to G2, BW, and BM ofcourse. So I'd love to see how the Kamehameha attack would translate into real life.
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Postby AutobotGeneral » Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:09 pm

Hopefully it died a most dishonorable death.
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Postby God Magnus » Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:50 pm

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AutobotGeneral wrote:Hopefully it died a most dishonorable death.


Agreed. I can't imagine any way this would turn out to be any good. I just don't think it would translate well at all.
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Postby Phategod1 » Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:40 pm

So many things I can't see in real life Like the hair Physics the anthropormorphic animals Dinosaurs, Powering up and Japanese Sense of Humor. But from what I heard Fox bought the right like 4 years ago, but they are doing nothing with it and probably wont DBZ hasn't been popular in Japan for nearly a decade now and the interest is dying out in t he states although I do love some good DBZ. But IN my opinion I think DBZ would only work with a mostly all asain cast Tom Welling I dont think so.
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Postby tequila stu » Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:57 pm

i would have thought Tony Jaa, the guy from Ong Bak and Warrior King would have been a better choice to Tom Welling
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Postby Tifereth » Wed Feb 07, 2007 6:37 pm

Some years ago i saw a DB movie with real ppl, but it was a messed :MAD: :SICK:

i wonder how they could make a really good DBZ movie with real person, if they do, at least i hope it would have better designs that some Tfs of the movie :P
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Postby Myriagon » Wed Feb 07, 2007 6:45 pm

AutobotGeneral wrote:Hopefully it died a most dishonorable death.


Haha! here here old been! :D
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Postby Screambug » Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:16 pm

How would they do up that spiky hair if they did it live action? :P
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Postby AutobotGeneral » Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:31 pm

Screambug wrote:How would they do up that spiky hair if they did it live action? :P


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Postby Air Commander Starscream » Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:41 pm

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Postby Mime » Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:44 pm

Tom Welling as Goku? Ha! What a joke! He's far too boring to be Goku.
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Postby DesalationReborn » Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:53 pm

Mime wrote:Tom Welling as Goku? Ha! What a joke! He's far too boring to be Goku.


And too smart, but yet too stupid all at the same time.
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Postby Mime » Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:10 pm

Yeah, Goku's sort of naive and childlike at times, isn't he?
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Postby Big_Bot » Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:51 pm

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I can't believe none of you remember this movie. I remember several of you in this thread commenting in the thread like...3 years ago. As far as I can remember, they never had anyone cast, it was only a concept idea. As for the hair, they said it wouldn't be big...it'd just have a certain "fluffyness" to it. But ya, it got cancelled, and for good reason, it would've sucked.
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Postby Phategod1 » Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:14 pm

Air Commander Starscream wrote:Jet Li as Vegeta. Goldburg as Nappa.


Jet Li can barely speak english I think Ken Wantanbe Or the Guy who played shang tsung In Mortal Kombat would make a better Vegeta.
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Postby Senor Hugo » Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:06 pm

Lets not fuss over who would play Vegeta in the movie.

Lets just be glad that the movie is dead, and will hopefully never return to life as a half-baked hollywood movie zombie.
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Postby Polar Claw » Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:30 pm

when i saw the threds title the fist thing that came to mind was that man in charg started his new meds
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Postby Duke of Luns » Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:16 pm

Tifereth wrote:Some years ago i saw a DB movie with real ppl, but it was a messed :MAD: :SICK:


The Dragonball live action movie is one of the best bad movies I've ever seen! Horrible special effects, bad costumes, and bad acting. It's so bad, it's funny, and the english dub is even funnier. Goku=Monkey Boy, Oolong=Piggy, Roshi=Turtle man. There are a few others, but they aren't as funny sounding. And also the english dub is comprised of some of the guys who worked on the Star TV dub of Transformers, so you know it's a quality translation :P .

I have a certain nastalgia for DBZ. It was overdone, but I enjoyed it. Still though, a live action movie woulnd't work. Why can't they just leave some things in animation?
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