Fox is funding a Dragonball Z movie

OmegaGuy · Post by **OmegaGuy** » 2007-09-02 10:52am

I think they made a live action Dragonball movie based on the early manga once.... it was hilariously terrible. You can find clips on youtube if you look hard enough.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-09-02 10:55am

OmegaGuy wrote:I think they made a live action Dragonball movie based on the early manga once.... it was hilariously terrible. You can find clips on youtube if you look hard enough.

The proper name was Dragonball: The Magic Begins. Of course it was unlicensed so they had to change a number of the names and terms. And yes, it was truly awful.

OmegaGuy · Post by **OmegaGuy** » 2007-09-02 10:56am

However it did fit into the "so bad it's funny" category

generator_g1 · Post by **generator_g1** » 2007-09-02 12:15pm

If they are going to go through with it, at least don't change the intro song.

CHA-LA, HEAD, CHA-LA!

DBZ's time has already passed. Even Toriyama didn't want to work on DBZ GT if I recall correctly.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-09-02 01:22pm

Ford Prefect wrote:You know what would be really funny? If this turned out to be awesome. Not just, 'hey, these fight scenes are awesome'* but rather 'this is a film classic. Oh god'. It seems implausible, but I'd laugh pretty hard.

*Awesome fight scenes do actually happen in Dragon Ball Z. Well, there waso ne which I thought was pretty cool, though for the most part they were lame.

The universe wouldn't allow it and The Beast would rear its head and destroy all creation while every deity known and unknown keeled over in agony.

It'd be like a Eurovision song becoming a platinum all time classic. It. Just. Doesn't. Happen.

J · Post by J » 2007-09-02 01:29pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:It'd be like a Eurovision song becoming a platinum all time classic. It. Just. Doesn't. Happen.

I believe a case can be made for ABBA accomplishing that particular feat...

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-09-02 01:43pm

J wrote:
I believe a case can be made for ABBA accomplishing that particular feat...

ABBA don't count. They were hot and talented before Eurovision (the girls, at least).

Post by **RogueIce** » 2007-09-02 03:27pm

How much of the movie will be them powering up?

Maybe that's how they'll handle the opening credits. Imagine, the opening bit with Goku and Vegita and the rest all powering up. Then an hour and a half of them fighting. Super Saiyan style, of course (and Vegita screaming "OVER NINE THOUSAAAND!!!" at some point). That would be worth the watch. Screw the story!

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-09-02 04:09pm

So, as with the episodes, the first half is powering up/taunting and the second half a preview of the sequel.

Andrew_Fireborn · Post by **Andrew_Fireborn** » 2007-09-02 05:00pm

Part of DBZ's problem, is it was made almost parallel to the manga, so they had to stall for weeks between most major plot points. (If you can call most anything in that show a plot point...)

The other half was, as the main characters became even more ridiculously powerful, the villains had to be even more over that point... Leading to a vicious cycle... Especially with Goku dieing and being brought back some fifty odd times...

It's a cycle seen somewhat in Dragon Ball too... But there at least the secondary characters were worth a little more than "hey, let's throw ourselves in the enemy's way so we can die and fuel Goku's rage!" fodder... (And the fights had more animation on average than three frames repeated for minutes on end...)

Though, I gotta agree, it has the potential to spark a million more /b/ 9000 pictures...

General Zod wrote:Didn't we already have a live action DBZ flick called The Matrix Revolutions?

This will be more... Matrix: Rev meets 300...

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-09-02 05:23pm

Andrew_Fireborn wrote:Part of DBZ's problem, is it was made almost parallel to the manga, so they had to stall for weeks between most major plot points. (If you can call most anything in that show a plot point...)

Why does that always happen? It happened with Full Metal Panic! and Hellsing and now Naruto. Can't they wait or go at a slower pace? These animation studios can't write for shit.

Andrew_Fireborn · Post by **Andrew_Fireborn** » 2007-09-02 05:43pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Why does that always happen? It happened with Full Metal Panic! and Hellsing and now Naruto. Can't they wait or go at a slower pace? These animation studios can't write for shit.

Part of it is because these titles are popular, so studios want to cash in. But the Author doesn't want to write a second story line, and neither the Author or Publisher wants the show to tell the comic's story before the comic gets around to it.

The other part is, that no matter how much the fan-base in foreign countries wants to trump it up, this is still a product of a nations mass entertainment media. As such, they need something to fill their air time with, therefore popular titles get picked up fairly quickly.

(And if you want draw out... look at bloody Inu Yasha... That show... I don't think it's ever going to end. EVER. It just prints money for the Author...)

Although, Fullmetal Panic! as far as I've seen of the anime (Season 1 + Fumofu) it pretty much exactly mirrors the Manga that I've read of it, albeit with the comical chapters split off mostly into Fumofu.

Hellsing, what I saw of it (the old 13 ep season) was a semi-original storyline from the manga (got all the issues currently released in NA) and as such, I don't think it has too much filler...

But Naruto is DBZ with ninjas... so it's to be expected.

Besides, it's really aimed at an even younger demographic than DBZ was.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2007-09-02 05:43pm

This is hilarious. Just the other day I was thinking to myself "It's about time they tried to remake The Fantastic Voyage".

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-09-02 07:34pm

Andrew_Fireborn wrote:
(And if you want draw out... look at bloody Inu Yasha... That show... I don't think it's ever going to end. EVER. It just prints money for the Author...

Inuyasha is best described as DBZ for girls. And your Naruto assessment was fairly accurate too.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2007-09-02 07:39pm

Andrew_Fireborn wrote:(And if you want draw out... look at bloody Inu Yasha... That show... I don't think it's ever going to end. EVER. It just prints money for the Author...)

The show ended a while ago. The manga's still going strong, though.

OmegaGuy · Post by **OmegaGuy** » 2007-09-03 04:33am

What I'm really curious about is how they're going to pull off the hairstyles.

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2007-09-03 04:43am

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Why does that always happen? It happened with Full Metal Panic! and Hellsing and now Naruto. Can't they wait or go at a slower pace? These animation studios can't write for shit.

As far as I'm aware, Full Metal Panic! never actually had this problem. The novels that each series were based on were written long before Gonzo/KyoAni started production. Novel adaptions, such as FMP!, The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi or Shakugan no Shana tend to work better, simply because they tend to be completely finished at release, as opposed to continued on a monthly basis.

However, Hellsing was really a case of Gonzo dropping the ball, as per usual.

However, Naruto suffers from the fact that it is a popular, on-going shounen series; it's the same with One Piece and Bleach. These are series with no end in sight (quite literally, in the case of One Piece - it could go on for another ten years and not look 'forced'). Manga adaptions can work, though obviously not while the mangaka is in the process of writing it.

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2007-09-03 10:43am

I just want to see how Fox will handle the characteristic Super Sayan hair.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2007-09-03 06:05pm

Andrew_Fireborn wrote: (And if you want draw out... look at bloody Inu Yasha... That show... I don't think it's ever going to end. EVER. It just prints money for the Author...)

I'm fairly sure that Rumiko Takahashi will be writing the same core "will they, won't they" plot she's been doing since about 1978 from beyond the grave.

Nothing short of the heat death of the universe will stop it.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2007-09-03 06:34pm

Noble Ire wrote:I just want to see how Fox will handle the characteristic Super Sayan hair.

lots of hair spray, and once an ignition source is near by the whole battle aura/goldy locks look becomes that much easier.

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2007-09-03 06:38pm

Another movie??! I was 7 when I watched the original movie, and it was already old...

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-09-03 09:04pm

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:Another movie??! I was 7 when I watched the original movie, and it was already old...

If you're referring to the piece of crap Dragonball movie (as opposed to any of the animated ones), this one is actually going to be official. Which means it may or may not suck even more.

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2007-09-03 10:00pm

General Zod wrote:
Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:Another movie??! I was 7 when I watched the original movie, and it was already old...
If you're referring to the piece of crap Dragonball movie (as opposed to any of the animated ones), this one is actually going to be official. Which means it may or may not suck even more.

So long as they stick to the Japanese voice overs, I am probably fine with it.

I have never quite followed the series much, though I followed other Japanese anime back then. A quick check indicated there were several animated movies released in Japan back in the 1990s and the one I watched was one of those. Curious that it was English dubbed though.

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2007-09-03 10:02pm

Edit: Apparently the movies were done in the late 80s.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-09-03 10:03pm

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:
General Zod wrote:
Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:Another movie??! I was 7 when I watched the original movie, and it was already old...
If you're referring to the piece of crap Dragonball movie (as opposed to any of the animated ones), this one is actually going to be official. Which means it may or may not suck even more.
So long as they stick to the Japanese voice overs, I am probably fine with it.

I have never quite followed the series much, though I followed other Japanese anime back then. A quick check indicated there were several animated movies released in Japan back in the 1990s and the one I watched was one of those. Curious that it was English dubbed though.

Yeah, this is an actual live action movie as opposed to yet another animated one. Helps to read the actual article. Most anime that gets shown on US tv tends to be dubbed in English, though.