First Look: Dragonball

Posted on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 by Peter Sciretta

Removed at the Request of Fox

JoBlo was able to uncover some photos from Fox’s big screen adaptation of Dragonball. I’m not sure if these are official or not, and if not, they might not be up for long (hey, it’s Fox after all). So check out some of the better photos below while you have the chance, and tell me what you think in the comments. It seems like a lot of fans are expressing disappointment on the various message boards, but that’s almost always the case with a big screen adaptation.

Discuss: What are your thoughts on the new Dragonball photos?

Comments

Ghost

It's a pain to watch a train wreck especially when they think it isn't going to happen and they keep adding train car after train car of more stuff too it =(

clarence somerset

IT looks horrible!!! Oh dear, isn't this supposed to be a mega budget movie?? Why does it look like Mortal Kombat?

Steelo

man why can't Goku be an asian cat? I'm gonna remake Schindler's List and make everyone black. Eff this.

www.myspace.com/coreywilson10

I think it looks alwsome!!!! I can't wait to see Dragonball
The gi look freakin' alwsome!

clarence somerset

Goku is an alien anyway so I'm not too worked up with ethnicity. Its his Gi that looks terrible. When someone suggested that the originl X-Men uniforms be used in the X-men film, Bryan Singer pointed out how stupid all of them would look. Same here!

And it seems SO Street Fighter-ish camp!

Tom

the movie will flop

Andrea

Since when was Goku white? Can't Hollywood get an unknown Japanese face for the role instead of some unknown white guy?

Andy

ha ha, this movie is gonna be terrible!

Sausage

it's just sad.... =/ I'm not to impressed. It's like they are avoiding any of the lore and making up something new with old characters.

Bano

omg .....i'm crying right now !!!.......this looks horrible..i grew up watching DGB + Z + GT ......Only Mr. Popo looks cool ..oh yeah and that chick from heroes looks HOT ..[i love asian women ]

jason

That dude at the top is NOT Goku, so stop freaking out.

Plus, since when did any of the characters in the original magna/anime ever look distinctly asian?

Frank

Back when 300 was in production, and no one knew anything about it, I saw "set" pictures, and they looked totally lame. I then was like "oh, this is gonna be lame". Well, apparently I was wrong.
So I won't say anything about the movie until the first trailer. I've watched some Dragonball Z years ago, and it was kinda fun (and addictive!). I'm optimistic.

Captain Awesome

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Trebek

Yeeeaaah...I don't even watch Dragonball and even I think goku should be asian...This movie is going to suck.

Rosario

I grew up on dragonball z and im gonna hold out on judgement to the first trailer. This looks bad but like frank said, if you look at the 300 photos they were horrible. I have high hopes for this movie.

Hobbes

It's hard to say this early on since so much can be done in post nowadays but my initial reaction is not good. As someone else mentioned, it looks like the old Mortal Kombat films; low budget and campy.

I won't completely write it off until a trailer hits but initial reactions are not good.

Trebek

...and 300 was nothing special IMO. Good art direction, but that was about it.

HEctor NAvarro

I think it looks good for a live action adaptation, better this than a caricature like Speed Racer

downbeat

Looks like butt.

clarence somerset

Lacks style. Looks cartoonish. Unless its going to be uber green screen, I doubt it'll look any more impressive.

Goku is an alien with a Chinese name. So ethnicity barely matters.

clarence somerset

Wait, does he turn Super Saiyan here? He shouldn't but I'm wondering.

It'd have been cool to have a CGI-ed Freeze (ala Gollum).

orange cinema

Maybe im too old or something, but I just don't get this at all.

jonny

I'm guessing opening day the theater is gonna look a lot like the 4th pic. Barely half full.

derenden

Goku was never asian to start with...heck not even half of the character were asian, they traveled around the DB world(which is not exactly our earth, but has in some places a chinese-like vibe) and met each others
only chichi, roshi and maybe two or three more were clearly asian-like

the"only" thing that make me worry, is that goku goes to school...and is unpopular...

and remember set pictures ALMOST never look good

anyway, i'll have to wait for the first trailer to have an opinion

(sorry if my english isn't very good)

clarence somerset

I don't like the idea of Goku getting bullied at all. DB had a wacky universe with talking dinosaurs and all manners of cyborgs and freaks. Heck, Guillermo del Toro would be perfect for this but alas ...

I think its rather hopeless to try to ground DBZ in reality. You cn do that with the Marvel characters but not DBZ. Its pure fantasy. And that's why its so fun.

Trebek

My bad about Goku being asian then. Like I said, I don't watch the show. I just always thought he was asian...My fault for being ignorant. Either way, I still think it's going to be pretty bad.

Steelo

dreden & Clarence

Either way, he damn sure wasn't animated by an alien.

dan

hahahahahahhahahaahahaa...

ahhh...

hahaahahahaaa

Sergio

The outfits look nothing like the anime series. It looks like another horrible adaptation along the lines of Street Fighter.

Galdersorg

Should never have been made live action, EVER. It's like the live action version of Underdog, pointless.

Jed

So, how about that Ernie Hudson guy playing some old, wise wizard or whatever the hell you call them?

derenden

sorry if my comment sounded rude
but in an universe like the dragon ball one, a kid with tail, a man with 3 eyes and four arms and green people are aliens, the "normal" people are the humanoid animals and the humans..you could say

the thing that still give me hope is the fact that stephen chow is the producer
and being the huge dragonball fan he is, one would expect at least a little involvement
james wong on the other hand hrmm final destinations hrmm

Steelo

@ derden

I get you, and you make a quality point. In the end it really shouldn't matter. I can honestly say I didn't know Steven Chow was producer and that does bring hope over all. I suppose my beef would be that by DEFAULT the asian thing would stand to reason.

But like anything, it's whatever. They just put the turkey in the oven.

Jojo

People who are obsessed with Dragonball are complaining about the quality of something? Hilarious.

Patrick

I think i'm going to kill myself now!!

Patrick

You can't do DBZ in live action ,you just can't

Patrick

I want to burn my fucking eyes out!!!!! who evers makeing this movie , this is what one hard core fan has to say FUCK YOU. I HOPE YOU FUCKING FAIL and one more time FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

Alex

@ Frank

You weren't wrong...'300' was lame.

Frank

@Alex
Box office results and user ratings/reviews obviously thought different. And I liked it very much as well.
But, of course, it's a matter of taste. All I'm trying to say is that production photos almost never reflect the quality of the end result. They are, after all, just set pictures. And with a movie like DBZ, I expect loads of post-production stuff being added to the final product.

Kode

Damn is there anyone with faith in this movie??..

Alex

@ Frank

"300" had no plot. It was all style over substance. If you play that movie back at regular speed you have a 40 minute movie. That said, stylistically, it is certainly a benchmark.

And since when do "box office results and user ratings/reviews" mean anything? Roger Ebert gave "The Day After Tomorrow" 3 stars and that movie did well and a lot of other reviewers liked it, but it's clearly a horrible movie.

...I think "300" actually stole the shitty CGI wolves from "TDAT" if I'm correct.

turbolover175

@ Kode: I have faith in it, but I think they shoulda started in the Z series, 'cause that's what most americans watched, and they shoulda had Eric Bana as Goku, Nathan Jones as Nappa, the midget from Pirates as Krillin, and god only knows for Vegeta. Besides that, I think we need to pray for no more delays and trust in the power of Stephen Chow. Oh, and by the way, I HAVE been told that "turbolover" is a word for a vibrator. I'm not like that, I just own a Subaru STI and like Judas Priest.

isny

Chatwin has no muscle whatsoever.

Unless they add it in after, he is going to be terrible.

How can a scrawny kid with no muscle fight off aliens?

I had hoped they would make Chatwin beef up for this roll, but apparently they don't care about making Goku anything like the Dragonball Goku, other than the ki's vague resemblance.

Tony

everything is all wrong. goku's hair, what he's wearing, and the fact that he's white. i always thought that if a live action film were to be made he'd be asian. in this film i was expecting some uber graphics. i'm talking about non stop fighting in the sky. heck get an asian guy to power up throughout the whole movie and i'll watch it.

True Fan

Firstly, these look soo fake, secondly, since when are there like 3 refs in world tournament, they would get blown to pieces, second... that girl, if you could place her to any1 it would be emperor pilafs assistant..but they dont appear after goku is 17ish and competes for his last time before marrying chi chi, thirdly, there were no monks and no mr popo in dragonball

poop

everybody in the dbzworld is asian... just watch the original videos... they speak japanese... hehehe

looks crappy... looks like something that came out of that guy who will quit if 1,000,000 people petition for him to stop making films.

Chris

That pic of Goku doesn't even look like Chatwin at all...

Yamcha, maybe?

Brian

Oh crap! I knew this would be horrible. They should've done a CGI instead. It looks even worse that the first Streetfighter.

wtf

if that is mr.popo it will suck cuz from what i can remember mr.popo was black as night, they shouldve just left him a white guy and made him black in post...wouldve been awesome haha

Azure Trayl

The picture of the guy who I think is Goku looks nothing like the main guy from The Invisible who I thought they signed on to be Goku. Either that or he can change his entire profile to look like that of someone who is constipated. I am really going to hold off any judgement till I go see it.

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