Chow Yun-Fat Joins 'Dragonball'
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Chow Yun-Fat (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) has signed on to play Master Roshi in the live-action adaptation of Dragonball. Rounding out the cast are Justin Chatwin (Tom Cruise's exceedingly obnoxious son in War of the Worlds), James Marsters (Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Emmy Rossum (from such disaster movies as The Day After Tomorrow, Poseidon, and The Phantom of the Opera), and Jamie Chung. Marsters will play Piccolo, Rossum will play Bulma, Chung will play Chi-Chi. Master Roshi is Goku's mentor, and he "helps him achieve the highest state of fighting and spiritual powers." He's the Yoda of Dragonball, if you will. James Wong (Final Destination) wrote the screenplay and is directing the film. The world of Dragonball has already been made into several anime series, animated feature films, a live-action Chinese movie, action figures, a collectible trading card game, comic books, and electronic games. The new film will focus on Goku (Chatwin, whose Caucasian-ness didn't set well with Cinematical commentors), "a warrior alien who protects the Earth from an endless stream of rogues bent on dominating the universe and controlling mystical objects known as Dragon Balls." Hm. I liked this movie better the first time when it was called Gandhi. I don't have much more to say on this project, so let me just ask you -- given the opportunity, do you think you would be able to handle Dragon Balls? Like if Dragon Balls were suddenly thrust into your face, would you know what to do with them? I am immature.
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1-30-2008 @ 6:25PM
bashier said...
your a fucking idot goku is not a american you fucking noob
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12-19-2007 @ 8:29PM
three said...
Jorge Garcia should play the role of Yajirobe!!!!!
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12-19-2007 @ 8:41PM
Brandon Barbin said...
Most people are already dismissing this movie as crap but I think it has a possibility of being alright. i watched "The One " recently and Wong had some really good fights in that one and if you've seen Kung fu Hustle then you know there is some dragon ball z style fights in that one. As far Goku being white it's F-ed up but it's Hollywood that's who they're marketing ultimately so are you that surprised.
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12-20-2007 @ 8:07AM
John R said...
Attn: Chow Yun Fat and Stephen Chow. Please, don't do this. This is a huge mistake. Chatwin is the worst person for this role. If anything, Stephen, you guys should have went with Kaneshiro. But since you didn't, believe me when I say this is going to be awful with Chatwin.
This movie will fail.
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12-20-2007 @ 5:02PM
Ian said...
Of course this movie will fail. It's a fucking "dragonball" movie.
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1-08-2008 @ 1:44AM
Josh said...
Why the hell are you complaining Goku is played by a white guy, you idiot, the saiyans are based on americans when they were drawn. As far as Chatwin goes, I don't know how that go, this film has so much potential, but it can easilly screwed up. but as far as effects, they will be freaking awesome. Remember that movie, "the covenant" it was such a crappy movie, but it showed potential as far as DBZ effects. So heres hoping.
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