James Kyson Lee for Dragon Ball Z
By Nix | November 12, 2007 (11:13 am) | More: Dragonball (2009) Movie, Movie News
Not content to just play the sidekick of a hero on TV, Heroes star James Kyson Lee wants to shed his Ando image for a real hero — by playing Yamcha in Fox’s upcoming live-action “Dragon Ball Z” movie. James Kyson Lee made the announcement to fans at the Pacific Media Expo in Los Angeles on November 11th, telling them he had auditioned for the role, but didn’t say if he had gotten it. The film was recently announced as a live action movie to be directed by James Wong of X-Files and “Final Destination” fame. Also according to Lee, the movie is scheduled for a 2010 release, which would make my 2008 prediction sort of optimistic.
More about the character from Wikipedia:
Yamucha (or Yamcha in the English adaptations) is a fictional character who first appears in the Dragon Ball manga created by Akira Toriyama, followed by an anime series, including Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT. He is introduced as a desert bandit and started out as an antagonist of Son Goku but quickly reformed and became an ally and Z Fighter. His constant companion is Pu’ar. His seiyū is Tōru Furuya. In the English dub, he was voiced by Ted Cole and later Christopher Sabat.
Isn’t Kyson Lee a tad too old to be playing the character? Then again, all of these anime characters look like they should be played by 12 years old with terrible bedhead, so…
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if u guys make this movie,make it hot.like some sick computer graphics.oh and the big hair thingy,i dont think its gonna work.try normal hair,a bit long.
James Kyson Lee will probably be the only reason why I would go watch this movie.
Arrg! More reason to support the boycott of this sickas movie, Japanese or American
I’m with Jimsons. We wait, wait, wait for it then it’s finally going to happen Oh lets boycott it. You people need to grow up and face that’s it’s NOT going be exactly the same as the anime.