Stephen Chow Kinda Talks Dragon Ball Z Movie
By Nix | November 15, 2007 (11:25 am)
I will admit that I was very doubtful when it was mentioned here that Stephen Chow would be “producing” the upcoming live-action Dragon Ball Z movie. After all, Wes Craven “presents” and supposedly produces a lot of movies, but, you know, he doesn’t, really. And considering how little Chow actually had to do with “producing” the Japanese movie “Shaolin Girl”, well, I was doubtful, let’s just say that. Now, Chow has recently talked to CRIenglish.com about his involvement in the movie, and, well, I’m still doubtful. Listen to what he says, and what he doesn’t say, and judge for yourself if he’s really doing anything beyond putting his name on a product simply to help it sell to the Asian market.
Says Chow about his involvement (or lack thereof):
“I have been a Dragonball fan for a long time,” Stephen Chow told a reporter with the Oriental Morning Post, “the airy and unstrained story leaves much room for creation.”
Chow also explained why he would not take up the job of the movie’s director, “I only direct original movies composed by myself. This is my principle.”
Chow is recommending Zhang Yuqi, leading actress in his new sci-fi film “CJ7″, play the role of Goku’s girlfriend in the film.
So, um, his “involvement” with the film begins and ends with him recommending an actress to play the female lead? Um, okay. Hey, it’s a tough job, but someone’s gotta do it, right?
The girl Chow is talking about is Kitty Zhang Yuqi, below.
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Thank you for the detailed review! I've put this on my que to watch. 
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Oh boy. This film adaptation really does not look promising. First of all, Goku’s GIRLFRIEND?! He doesn’t have one, he simply marries a girl because of a promise he hastily made when they were kids. I guess it’s been a while since Stephen Chow read the series. And I know the filmmakers need to change things from the manga but really, what’s the point of making a live adaptation?
Dude, cynical much? haha…seriously, why so doubtful? Negativity GALORE! haha…so what? Dragon Ball was not THAT great anyway, let ‘em make it…the proof is in the movie haha…we’ll see…when the time comes…who knows what kind of fans it will garner? Hey, I was doubtful about the Transformers movie…and it seems to have “TRANSLATED” well onto movie screens…so F— the anime and manga…if you’re just a fan of those, than just stick to those things…but the medium of Film allows for us to Experience it in a NEW way…sad to say but the anime has lost its luster OVER time…and though I like the premise…this may actually be an enthusiastic RE-ENTRY into the series again? Renewed interest is perhaps the main motivation…with all these new anime/manga out now…it’s hard to remember the original ones that brought the promise of Excitement and Fun? Now isn’t that what this boils down to in the end? Don’t be so “religious” or “fanatical” about it…”it’s just a movie”….haha…my dad tells me that A LOT…!!! haha…PUheast!
all i can say is there are so many people bagging this movie before theres even a teaser trailer out.
if it a flop well fair enough, but I’m sure the movie will be quit good even if they do change a 1 thing or 100 things
nuff said
i wonder what the japanese creators are thinking right now.
@mugen6
Toriyama: What can i say?… I was drunk!!
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But seriously what harm can it do? If it plops, it plops just shut the f*** up and enjoy the madness.
To those Stephen Chow fans, it seems that he’ll be too preoccupied on this other movie to care about this DB movie, in other words he actually will not be participating much more, which really figures, since none of his proposed actors got selected by Hollywood.
i love dragon ball. i’m happy at last the movie about dragon ball will be release soon. but this is far from what i want it to be. i grew up with dragon ball. when i saw the photo .. it make me sad. really sad.
I agree Eric Choi but when Videl comes to Gohan’s house and wants to know how to fly and starts arguing with Chi-Chi Chi-Chi says “Goku and I’ve been dating since we were kids”. Also the movie’s probably not going to follow the same storyline as the series.
stephen chow is the maaaan yeeeaaaa.. dbz rules
Look, Stephen Chow doesn’t have anything to do with this movie. Fox just put him on the staff list to cheat fans into the cinemas.