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Dragonball Pushed Back to 2009

By Nix | March 5, 2008 (8:40 am)

Maybe 20th Century FOX is feeling the same kind of pangs of doubt about the upcoming live-action “Dragonball” movie that the fans seem to feeling, which may explain why they’ve moved the film from a August 15, 2008 debut to a new time slot in 2009 — specifically April 3, 2009. Everytime I’ve posted some new “Dragonball” news, the reactions by fans of the anime have been almost uniformly negative. Then again, maybe FOX just didn’t want to schedule “Dragonball” against their own “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”, which was also due out in the same 2008 week.

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Dragonball is adapted from the manga created by Akira Toriyama; the work was also turned into a Japanese anime series that played all over the world. It tells the story of an alien sent to destroy Earth, who has a change of heart and decides to join the humans in their fight against various aliens and bad guys. Justin Chatwin is starring as the hero Goku, while James Marsters will play the villain Piccolo in the sci-fi adventure.

The film stars Justin Chatwin, James Marsters, Jamie Chung, Emmy Rossum, Eriko Tamura, Joon Park and Chow Yun-Fat.

Dragonball Pushed Back to 2009

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sad on March 8, 2008

this is looking even worse now sad sad bd fan know let me do thsi movie i will do it right everyting right .

 
Kaleb on March 10, 2008

In other words, this movie sucks so much that coupled with perhapse a boycott from Japan or all over the world the competition from the other August movies will simply batter it out of the screen, so Fox is retreating it to the April when good movies don’t usually get released.

 
Byron on March 17, 2008

Hey this is all wrong!!
I need you people to talk to Draagonball and tell them to come out with more new episodes i really need yall to do that please please please please i miss the show and all they do is shoew it at least one time a month we need a new series!! Like Dragonball ZT something like that i miss goku gohan piccilo gotenks,trunks and maijan buu so please talk to them about bringing a new series to cartoon network!!! :(
all the dragonball fans miss that show and please write me back on my email about them bringing the show back and are yall going to do GT Z or original well i guess you didint know about all that so what do you say everyone misses that show and let it have more graphics and stuff like that so write my back at timmyblackdog@yahoo.com And the subject is BRINGING BACK DRAGONBALL!!!!!

 
matt on March 23, 2008

i think this will be bad ass…. unless krillian isn’t in it, but i bet he will be from what i’ve recently heard… yeah son

 
Ben Burton on April 24, 2008

Here’s an idea, seeing as fox are gonna lose money on this anyway, re-do the movie, get a decent cast, change the whole script and keep it more to the manga/anime or just give it to the japanese and let Akira Toriyama do the whole thing!

 
Sato on April 29, 2008

they r knew nothing about dragon ball.

the most important is the character. that’s why a lot people love dragon ball. but where is Kuririn (goku bestfriend)?, where is Ten shin Han(goku first rival) ?

dragon ball is very good, dragon ball Z is awesome, dragon ball GT is bad, and this dragon ball movie is suck.

 
tj on May 6, 2008 Subscribed to comments via email

i say let michael bay direct the movie, or let the japenese direct it

 
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super saiyan 09 on May 13, 2008

As you can see by my screenname I am thrilled with this. I’ve been a huge fan of the Dragon Ball Universe since I was about 7 or 8 years old. I’m now seventeen and still love it. I just James Wong knows and doesn’t mess this up for fans. I want to be Dragon Ball Z then Dragon Ball GT. I’m also on the Krillin and Tien thing(no Chaiotzu please). Slash what I said before first movie should be Emperor Pilaf, 2nd should be the Red Ribbon Army, 3rd should be King Piccolo. Dragon Ball Z live action should be Saiyans,Freiza,Cell,Buu, GT should be Baby, Super 17, Shenrons. It probaly won’t o past Dragonball though(no offense).

 
super saiyan 09 on May 14, 2008

Byron unfortunately it ended with GT. At least that was their plans for it. A series after GT called AF was a myth but I really want them just as much as you do. A manga for Dragon Ball AF is being made by fans in Japan but I don’t know if it will come to America. Hopefully this movie will reboot the Dragon Ball franchise. If not as you have the video games, action figures you had when you were little, movies, cards, etc. then Dragon Ball will always be with you.

 
Priverson on May 14, 2008

I have a feeling those so-call Dragonball fans who support this cinematic disgrace have a tendancy of doing stupid things like believing in the ‘A FAKE’ that even Toriyama himself denied.

 
super saiyan 09 on May 15, 2008

It’s the anime I’m concerned about dooshbag. How do you know that was really Toriyama anyway? I swear to god I read one more trashy comment from you I’m going to track you down and kamehameha you right in your dragon balls.

 
Priverson on May 15, 2008

Some people claim they are eligible for doing kamehameha when they don’t have the single idea what Toriyama said.

 
super saiyan 09 on May 16, 2008

FYI Priverson I DO know what he said. Just that he’s not involved in this and he’s mad about this as some people are. Now who’s stupid huh?

 
Max on May 16, 2008 Subscribed to comments via email

How involved is Toriyama with this film anyway? I apologize in advance for not already knowing. I just wasn’t really interested in this until recently. I’m not a big fan of DBZ or GT but DB was just fantastic if Toriyama has nothing to do with this it’ll be a huge let down.

 
Max on May 16, 2008 Subscribed to comments via email

I’ll be grateful that this FINALLY happened if it stays true to Toriyama’s vision. Even if it has a crap budget I’ll be satisfied so long as no creative freedoms are taken with the STORY!

 
Priverson on May 16, 2008

Well as somebody too “smart” to understand I had been talking about the ‘A FAKE’ instead of this movie pointed out, Toriyama doesn’t have a hand in this.

 
super saiyan 09 on May 16, 2008

Got any another comebacks for me Piverson or did I own you?

 
super saiyan 09 on May 16, 2008

Priverson ignore what I my last entry but I was on youtube and saw videos titled Dragon Ball AF. Af is not supposed to exist everyone in the videos were in their DBZ states(Goku in red suit, Vegeta in his blue, trunks and goten were kids etc). All these new villains were in them however and they had old famous villains with the M on them. One villain looked like a bigger Cell for example. Also in a video old villains ganged up on the Z fighters including movie ones. Are these movies in Japan or something? Could somebody please explain? You don’t believe me go there yourself and type in Dragon Ball AF(or just google it.

 
super saiyan 09 on May 16, 2008

That one villain I talked about(that looks like Cell) could also be a third form of Janemba? One thing wrong was in one video Gohan kills him and another Vegeta does. Also aren’t animated movies done? CGI should be their next step after this live action stuff.

 
Priverson on May 19, 2008

Some people just like to kiss up to anything with the name ‘Dragonball’ in it, no matter if it’s the ‘A FAKE’ that the author himself personally denied the existence of or this preposterous movie.

 
super saiyan 09 on May 20, 2008

Priverson did you see the video because you actually have to see it before you can explain what’s going on.

 
Priverson on May 20, 2008

Why not give a link instead?

 
super saiyan 09 on May 21, 2008

Just read my previous entry Priverson. You don’t know which one it is then google Dragon Ball AF or just Google it. I think I Googled Dragon Ball AF with a question mark.

 
super saiyan 09 on May 21, 2008

Sorry Priverson meant to say type it in at Youtube or Google.

 
super saiyan 09 on May 22, 2008

Priverson type in DragonBall AF Youtube videos or something similar

 
super saiyan 09 on May 22, 2008
 
Priverson on May 22, 2008

I saw one video labelled AF when it was actually from some PS2

 
super saiyan 09 on May 23, 2008

That was definitely one of them (I saw it too) but did you see the videos I was talking about? If not then Google Star Wars The Clone Wars 2008 and go to the bottom of the page. There will be links to videos for it. Open the first one( I think if not the 2nd one). Go to the side of it and there will be trailers for the DragonBall movie click on them(don’t have to watch them). After they’re done you might see videos labeled Af if not just keep trying or do what I said on my last entry.

 
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