Should I laugh now or later. So anyone know what's the deal with Speed Racer, Evangelion, or Robotech? I'll keep checking /Film.

I can't believe this is coming before Evangelion Live Action. I simply and utterly can't believe.

Wong is capable of doing some very good work, although a few of his recent movies were admitedly stinkers. He and his frequent writing partner (something-or-other Morgan, can't remember the first name) were behind the second season of the Chris Carter-produced Millennium TV series. They also had a TV show I liked called The Others. Before all that, they were heavily involved in the first season of The X-Files. Many favorite characters on that show were their creations.

With the exception of Final Destination and their (largely unrecognized) work on The X-Files, they seem to have a habit of making commercial failures that a sub-section of genre geeks really love. Too bad I'm not a Dragon Ball Z fan at all, or I'd definitely turn out for this. I don't suppose a guy named Morgan is also involved?

I read the premise of the movie, it sounds like its not gonna be good at all. kind of sounds like the same old recycled junk Hollywood feeds us. Very dissapointing.

Uch. NO THANKS. DBZ is a terrible representation of Anime, Japanese culture, and anything good. ever.

In other words, Dragon Ball Z is trash. I expect nothing more for the film, too.

After reading the casting breakdown on CHUD.com I believe this is a Dragonball movie and not a Dragonball Z movie. And yes...While Dragonball isnt the best anime, it will appeal to everyone who only watches mainstream anime, the same people who watch dubbed anime. So it is a good move, will more than likely make a killin in the box office just because of the name (same reason Boll movies do 'good' but are utter CRAP!!!)...just wish it was something more underground and not mainstream.

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God help us all not that a movie adaptation of dragonball would be good anyway but this is terrible akira toriyama must be sick to his stomach I will not see this trash and anyone else who is a fan wont either american cinema ruins everything these days wong is just as bad a uue bowle God help us all if there is one

I THINK A LITTLE KNOWN ACTOR/MARTIAL-ARTIST NAMED MARK DACASCOS WOULD CREATE DEPTH AND CHARACTER TO GOKU PROBABLY GREATER THAN ANYONE ELSE THAT I CAN THINK OF RIGHT NOW. JUST MY LOGICAL OPINION CONSIDERING HE LOOKS LIKE GOKU.FOR EXAMPLE,JUST THINK OF ALL THE ASIAN MARTIAL ARTIST AND ACTORS THAT APPEAR ON FILM AND TV.ALSO,I WONDER WHAT THE DIRECTOR OF THE MOVIE JAMES WONG IS CONSIDERING WHEN IT COMES TO CASTING ALL THE CHARACTERS.LET'S PRAY FOR HOPE DRAGOBALL Z FANS!!!

Es una gran noticia, pero ojala no se cambie la historia en nada y los personajes sean lo mas parecidos posibles, ya que invertiran mucho dinero si toman en cuenta estos puntos esta no sera la pelicula del siglo sino del MILENIO

If this is true i'm very very happy but i'm not so sure if this is true becouse every day we the fans of dbz see differits thrailers every day!!!
I hope youre sure about this information! and if you have others informations about making the movie.. please send me a email pls pls pls pls .....
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this movie is gonna be pretty freakin awesome
and dbz was probably the only good anime i have ever seen.

you are a retard, this movie is shit.

another good show is bleach

I'm a huge DBZ fan and lets face it hollywood are going to find some way of making this suck!

and to 3v1lkr0w If something is underground and becomes a movie it is no longer underground taking away a lot of the charm for any original fans.

When are you people going to put that in your heads?! It's DB! NOT DBZ!!

Nah guys...don't be so rude, he has certainly planned something new for this DBZ movie.....am sure this one will be a hit!

WELLL .. that's interesting. It's seems like the movie title should have no "Z" in it, maybe that was a typo ... I have mixed feelings about this film, I don't know what to expect from Wong because I haven't seen "Final Destination" but that doesn't matter. I'm still looking foward to this film and i hope it lives up the hype.

seriously after reading the breakdown of characters they have, someone has got to step in and correct it. Gohan did not live till Goku's 18th B-day, and he had the 4 star ball not the 3 star ball. Master Roshi dieing? Come on Master Roshi can't die. and where is Krillin? Goku and Krillin grew up together. Someone please save this film before some NON fan screws it up like most adapted movies. Mai was NOT Piccolo's assistance she was Garlic Jr's henchwoman.

Come on and give it a chance... If it were COMPLETELY like the original Dragon Ball, it would be a TOTAL BORE! Let them do what they want with it. It'll still have the characters, just a different way. It's like.. spicing it up a lil. I don't think it'll be too bad, and I'll definitally have to drag my dad along to go watch it! I'm psyched.

I will no doubt watch it, BUT they must include Krillin in the mix. If he is not in the dragonball movie then it is bogus. Puar, Oolong, Ox King all gotta be in it too.

General Tao should be THE NAMEK's main henchman, before Mai in my opinion.

i think its awesome, not sure about chatwin as goku, but james masters is a pretty good actor in my book, it does sound suspiciously like a dragonball plot....becuase of no mention of reditz or vegeta or nappa, but it has got to be better than nothing,

iv been waiting for this for years. as long as the cast improves i think it will be safe...i think someone actually mentioned masters in a bogus casting for the film some years ago..anywayz

WHAT ABOUT VEGETTA???? DBZ is not DBZ without VEGETTA I know this movie will be around it Drangon ball Series not Dragon Ball Z but think about it will be good ending .....VEGETTA is comming!!!

You guys are all gay, shut up and let them make the movie. It's not going to make the db franchise worse than its starting to become, if anything it will get more popular, even if its not very good. And I can't believe I'm even saying this, you're all probably like 12 yrs old or close to that. Dorks! MAKE THE MOVIE but try to do a good job ;D

Is there a way to get this guy to change the script? We Dragon ball fans have waited a long time for this movie and this guy is gonna ruin it. Why in the world would he adapt the picollo saga, which is for 5 year old children only, instead of the vegeta saga or any other DRAGONBALL Z sagas.

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Nobody! I mean Nobody can make good movie out of DB anime... It's too complex to fit in a movie, or even a trilogy...

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Ok while the though of Goku being a un cool high schooler sounds cute and all they can not do this. I mean what the hell? This seems more like dragon ball i don't wanna see Goku fight piccolo. I want an alliance. I want some friggin Vegeta for god sakes there is no Goku without Vegeta.

Ok while the though of Goku being a un cool high schooler sounds cute and all they can not do this. I mean what the hell? This seems more like dragon ball i don't wanna see Goku fight piccolo. I want an alliance. I want some friggin Vegeta for god sakes there is no Goku without Vegeta. I mean i would probably watch it no matter how crappy it was just to show my support of dragon ball z however i can not give this movie my blessing.

No there is no Goku without Bardock. As for highschool that is a load of crap Goku was never in school. Maybe Gohan. And grandpa Gohan died before Goku could have ever been to high school. I know the plot of the movie is just not in line with anything from the anime but I am glad that we are going to have a movie. I just wish that they stayed as true as possible to the manga.

dragon ball no americana,no banderas de amarica en the movie,no estatua de la libertad en the movie,dragon ball es ante todo japones

I'd rather see a live adaption of Macross or Space Battle Cruiser Yamato first. Disney bought the rights to Yamato over a decade ago and still hasn't done anyhting with it. Either of these franchises as a live action movie would be better than frickin' Dragon Ball.

While I disagree with andrew that its a poor representation of anime(because the anime was once the most popular ever in japan and most asian countries aswell in the europe and the Americas.) I do think it will not be great. Especially if they are going to go for some modernization version of DB, I just dont know what to expect though I dont expect much from it.

Btw most of you dont even know the difference between Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. Look it up.

I'm a huge fan of all db/z/gt/Af and i just hope after all the information thats going around,if they do make a live action film that they choice to make it a Dragon ball z and not just Dragon ball.Anime is brilliant underground or mainstream and i think we need to wait this one out and pray its not just a Hollywood make money fast scam.Lets look at marvel,marvel are brilliant but they need to know when to stop making good comic book story lines into films that suck plus when they turn them into live action the big screen most of the time kills them off.I'm 21 years young and when i was a kid i loved nothing more on C.N.X or toonami than to watch dragon ball /z/gt and if they are going to give this the go ahead it would please me and all the fans of this truly awesome anime for 20th and James Wong to pull there fingers out and to get a huge budget (i know big budgets don't always make for good films) a GOOD STRONG CAST and not kids from the likes of the OC and smallville and try and make this work.i think if this works this is a VERY BIG opportunity for them to capitalize on a big gap in the market to bring Anime to life on the big screen,something like this to please fans and bring in sales and hopefully joy for many films to come (IF IT WORKS) !!THANKS!!

Hi everione, the DB movie is a good Idea, thre was several people around that like anime, and specially that kind of anime, beacuse DB is like the ancestor for all the nwe series that are right now like bleach, full metal alchemist, etc. Is true is a live action movie, and for the ones that think is a bad idea or even that is "crap", just think about the special effects of Matrix, do you think that is not the same types of things that we gonna see in the DB movie, just think in this, instead of the agent Smith we will see piccolo and instead of Neo we gonna see a Goku.

if he does it well then i wont complain but there is no doubt that everyone would rather see a dragonball z saga. with the coolest characters like goku, vageta, go-hon, the good piccollo, trunks and all seeing them getting stronger with super sayan action against cooler enemies like frieza and cell. i just hope that they dont stop with this movie and keeep making sequels. cut out the boring stuff and put in all the awsome stuff

the titla had better not be 'dragonball z'. because its not. its 'dragonball' and thats it. they have got a huge responsability to not make a crap movie because so many of us love the show and have such high expectations

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after thinking about it for ages, i think the fact that they are bringing this to life is as good as it gets for us dbz fans, hoping that this will be Z and not just dragonball. and all you alternative anime people, go away and hope for your own movie,
lets hope its not a straight to dvd special yeh,

I think that Mr. Wong is not going to have it easy on Dragon Ball z. Just making dragon ball without the Z or the GT is a pretty hard task but hey, it`s hollywood, ain`t it? C`mon, matrix was good, reloaded was better. Revolution? oh men. What about Lord of the rings? I mean, the special effects are there but the problem is how they use `em or how much money they wanna spend on the effects. I just think that if they want to make this happen they have to spend a lot of money and they can´t deny it so Mr. wong, if you are going to make Dragon ball z movie happen, just make sure you use all the special effects there are and even those effects you have never used `cause the movie it`s gonna need it and we, dragon ball z, gt fans are expecting the best on this proyect. By the way, please don`t stop on Dragon Ball z. Keep going on GT, you know, Saiyans Transformations.

And please don`t modify anything from the sagas. We don`t wanna see goku going to high school. We wanna see him fight, fly, throw powers with his hands and turn super saiyan 1,2,3 and if it`s possibble 4, and the moves, they gotta be quick just like if it was the animated sagas. C`mon, you gringos and Japones got all the technology to make Dragon Ball z the best movie at least on special effects, accion and drama. Make it win 19 Oscars. hehehe

hey sam. i agree with what you are saying. but you do relise that this isnt even a dragonball z movie. its a dragonball movie. hopefully they can make as many as possible to cover as much of the gigantic story line.

Does anyone here like 'Guyver Biobooster Armour'? i don't know when but ages ago there were two live action film made on it.... it totally ruined what was (in my opinion) a great Manga series. in short: it was like all the Power Rangers in one man.

I know film writing has come along way since then but i help but think this'll be a flop. Wasn't Goku a baby in Dragonball? That question alone makes me scared to think hardly any research has been made on the series.

I truly hope its gonna be good though.... please!! haha

I love dbz ive prolly seen it all. Even the dumd ones like return of cooler that was so dumb. I dont think the actors they picked will do the dbz name justice and also I really wish they would get the name right. Their making DRAGON BALL NOT DRAGON BALL Z there is a big difference in the shows. I will watch it and give it a chance I just hope that it doesnt come out like the two mortal combat movies that really sucked.

The budget for the film is $100 million I know this doesn't mean much but it lets me know that the CG is going to be good.

Im a huge fan of DBZ. Im really nervous on how this will turnout.
But im gonna wait n c wat happens. I mean a lot of ppl thought that Transformers was gonna b junk....but look at it now!!! lol.
Best movie i ever seen. I hope that DBZ throws out a big hype jus as Transformers did. Good luck makers of the DBZ movie!!!!!!!\
Im counting on you guys....lol

So they're going to be dumb enough to launch the movie off dragonball instead of dragonball z or even GT? Obviously some films studios don't mind blowing there money by making something almost no one cared about. I think this is going to end up ruining what lil bit of faith i still have in someone making a good adaptation of a decent anime, good director, good anime, sorry script writers. Apologies now for hiring idiots to write about something they know nothing about. Next time ya'll decide to make a movie based on a anime movie, let someone that knows about the subject to write the script and come up with the idea.

i agreee with the december 18 th comment this movie should be more chinese like than being american