Quickie: Crappy DBZ Movie Gets Sequel?
Dated: 27 Mar 2008
TokyoGraph reports that the live-action Dragon Ball flick, which has been pushed back from summer ‘08 to spring ‘09, is going to get a sequel. Never mind that it looks like the biggest train wreck film in recent memory, it needs a sequel!
Seriously, WTF?
Tags: adaptations, dragon-ball-z, live-action
March 27th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Something to haunt our thoughts when leave the theatres after the first. I’m trying to keep as open a mind about it as I can…
March 27th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Thats almost as cool as winning the showcase showdown.
With the dead guy, not Drew Carey. Cause he sucks.
March 27th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Well I’d hit it.
March 27th, 2008 at 11:12 am
How…interesting…
I’m trying to keep an open mind about the first one. Don’t know if I’ll bother seeing it in theaters unless I go with a group of friends, though.
And Kyaa, Bob Hope was the original host of The Price is Right, and he’s not dead yet.
March 27th, 2008 at 11:13 am
of course its gonna have a sequel… straight to video that is.
March 27th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Wait. Bob Hope? He’s totally dead! I think you mean Bob Barker. He may not be dead, but thats simply because he’s one of the evil undead host.
Some sort of archlich or something.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:14 am
The sad thing is the fans (and non-fans) don’t look at all the things the movie is doing right, and instead focus on bashing either anime in general or Dragonball.
All the cast are perfect fits for their anime counterparts (with maybe one exception), the crew have worked on films like “The Matrix,” “300,” “Sin City,” and “Hellboy,” Stephen Chow is producing, at least half the cast were fans before being chosen, Stephen Chow is a fan who happens to be helping James Wong with the script to be more faithful to the source, the set designs look absolutely amazing, the costumes are undeniably faithful to the anime (the orange GI goku wears is spot-on), the story is based on the most interesting part of the entire series (in my opinion) which is the Piccolo saga, and Brian Tyler (composer who has worked on Constantine, Rambo, and Children of Dune) described it as a dream job because he was a fan since the 80s.
But, then again, everyone said the same thing about “Transformers,” and I bet the majority are regretting doubting it now. And, James Wong is at least a little better than Michael Bay. ;)
Anyway, have fun being negative and picking apart a movie which doesn’t even have a trailer… I mean really, at the very least this will be an entertaining popcorn flick.
And for the record, Fox and James Wong ALWAYS wanted a trilogy that would end at the Freeza saga, the way Akira Toriyama originally wanted to end it before he, um, sold out I guess. They were planning it before they even started filming.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:16 am
@Adam: Whoa! Sorry man. I forgot that talking about movies on the Internets is SERIOUS BIZNIZZ. ♥
March 28th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Sorry, yeah. Bob Barker. ^.^;
March 28th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Seriously, Bob Barker’s got like “I sold my soul to the devil” written all over him. You know… bedding his bimbos, luring people on stage only to crush their will to live with a smirk….
Totally evil.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
[...] Does it matter if the Dragonball flick was pushed back from this summer to next spring? Does it matter that the movie looks like dookey? No! Apparently, Dragonball 2 could be shooting first quarter next year. Some of the movie’s sets are still in place where it was shoot in Mexico, waiting! It does matter how the flick does, though. Whew, that’s good. There is a God. Dragonball 2? [Movieland via Dragonball - The Movie via TokyoGraph via a geek by any other name] [...]
April 24th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
I wonder what those who make comments on people criticizing a movie that doesn’t yet have a trailer will say when the trailer actually comes out. That people criticize a movie which only has a trailer?