Live-Action Dragon Ball Z Movie Gets its Cast
Dragonball: Evolution (2009) Movie — By Nix on November 13, 2007 |
After announcing James Wong as the director of the upcoming “Dragon Ball Z” movie (apparently to be called just “Dragonball” in its big-screen incarnation), Twentieth Century Fox has given the movie the go-ahead and scheduled it for a Summer 2008 release date, which seems way too early, but then I’m not a big time movie studio. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Justin Chatwin and James Marsters have been cast in the film as the film’s hero and villain, respectively, with James Wong still directing. Chatwin was most recently in David S. Goyer’s “The Invisible”, while Marsters is most known to Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans as Spike the vampire.
More about the movie:
The story follows an adult humanoid alien named Goku, who discovers that he was sent to Earth to blend in and destroy our population but instead elects to protect it from an oncoming alien onslaught bent on dominating the universe and controlling the mystical objects from which the film takes its name.
Chatwin, who will play Goku, has already begun training under the auspices of stunt performance company 87Eleven, which has executed and designed action pieces in pictures such as “The Matrix,” “The Bourne Supremacy,” “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” and “300.” Marsters is playing the villainous Piccolo.
Also mentioned in the article is that the movie is being produced by Stephen Chow.
The ball drops Summer 2008.
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Why the hell are these guys playing these roles there is no way in hell Chatwin can look or even get close to the build of Goku, and The other one is way to tall to play Vegeta this long awaited movie is going to be ruined before it even starts!!
im kind of upset, i love dragonball and dbz, and they didnt give master roshi a beard and mustache, bulma didnt have blue hair, gokus hair wasnt big enough, and justin needs to work out more, yamcha is played by a japanese guy when his character is totally like an american white guy. they forgot launch, i really hope they dont mess this up. im excited at the same time as dissapointed, the only one that looks the most like the character is piccolo!
First of all, the villain is King Piccollo (piccollos dad), not vegeta. Second, it’s set before the series of DBZ starts..when it was just called “Dragonball” and they were all younger..so Chatwin is perfect for the part. Trust me.
the movie isnt only dragonball its also z since vegta is joining (obvious) along with the fact that the summary sais the movie is about a guy named goku who is going to save earth from villains SUCH AS lord picollo so…..
do u kno wen its comin out? seriously im a big fan ofit forl ike 9 years
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No, trust me, there are other people that can definitely play a better young Goku. Casting really messed up in a long awaited movie.
I THINK YOU WERE WRITE AND THAT OTHER GUY WAS WORNG AND THIS MOVIE IS TOTLEY GOING TO ROCK beter then IRONMAN DBZ is going to tto be the best movie of 09…
DBZ IS GOINGTO HEY MOM GET OUT OF MY ROOM SARRY I THIS NEW LAB TOP THAT WRITES EVERY THING I SAY BACK TO WHAT I WAS SAYING DBZ IS GOING TO ROCK SO HARD THE EARTH IS GOING TO SHAKE YHA!!!
Actually moron if u ever even seen dragonball. when he fought piccolo jr. He was actually ripped. He may not be as buff as in dragonball z but who can really be tat buff in dbz. in dragonball he a six pack and he was pretty big not a skinny white fck who does not know how to act
GOKU IS NOT WHITE! WHO DECIDED ON CASTING??? THIS MOVIE IS GOING TO BE ASS!!
this is gonna be a crisis in the asian community. they can play those roles when they turn super saiyans. but not normal mode, goku and vegeta look asian…. good for american viewers but dbz was born and viewed in asia for a long long time. theres gonna be hell.
Goku and Vegeta do not look Asian, what’s going on with you people!? Everybody looks white on DBZ not asian, not black, only caucasian! It would be fine if everybody was asian on DBZ, I would be just as big of a fan, but they’re not! Why would asian’s have a problem with white people playing the roles of DBZ characters, they made them white. And for the people that think who they cast for Goku is ridiculous, look at Ryan Reynolds in Blade 3, anything is possible!
yo retard if it was younger goku should b a little kid not an emo teen
A Mexican actress named Camila Sodi is playing Bulma.
lol trust these guys wouldnt have been cast if they werent perfect for the job this movie will be a classic just like the first modern spiderman movie.
i agree on u dude! hey guyz the staff aren’t that stupid to make a 100 million movie without planning and research duh!!! the cast aren’t what we expected bet helll maybe they have a plan to suprise its viewers. i’m sure before they made the movie, they’ve watched the series
are you stupid? have you seen some of the movies they have transfered from games or comics to a movie? half of them suck ass! these people do NOT neccessarily “know” what they are doing. they need to do this right, if they do it could be the highest selling movie ever.
Emmy Rossum is actually playing bulma. she’ll be great!!
i dont think the movie is gonna be bad. these dudes up here are stuck on the cartoon. stop the hate an wait for it. besides gorge lucas is gonna involved an name a wack movie he was in
this movie is going to suck
Is this stuff serious. Did he try to find actors that look NOTHING like the real characters, I pray that the CGI will make up for the poor casting. We can only wait and see!!!!
On a serious note. Some of you are living in the past and would rather relive the animated series before trying to enjoy a live action. I’ve been a Dragonball fan for about 11 years now. I for one will welcome a change in the dragonball era and more than likely be astonished at what the can do in a live action movie. Give it a chance before you critasize.