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dragonballmovieblog said:
Thanks to Avenged at Dragonball Legends for the heads up. According to Barnes & Noble the Dragonball Junior Novelization will be in stores February of 2009. So, if you consider yourself a junior who doesn't mind being spoiled 2-3 months before the film hits theaters, be sure to pick this up!

Barnes & Noble says that the book is Published by VIZ Media and consists of 152 pages. The novelization is adapted by Stacia Deutsch and Rhody Cohon from a script by Ben Ramsey and James Wong.

Amazon features it's price ($5.99) as well as a brief description.
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ourchair said:
You all just hate the notion of a Dragon Ball movie simply because a) It's Dragon Ball, and like, Dragon Ball sucks and b) Mole likes it.

And I say that as someone who absolutely hates Dragon Ball AND tends to dislike most things Mole likes.

So quit the hatin yo.
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Its not that, its just that some things don't work in live action and DBZ is one of them.
 
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SSJmole said:
Actually I disagree on this. I think catwoman looked great. It was the story , acting and dialogue that let that down.
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You also think Jonathan Taylor Thomas would make a good Spider-Man.

You lose.


But seriously, the costume was retarded in that movie. A pair of leather pants and bra with a lame Cat mask. It was like zero thought was put into it. Not only is it stupid looking, but it was completely impractical given the terms of Catwoman's nightly adventures.

Everything about that movie was horrendous, including the costume.

Dragonball's costumes are night and day better (however faithful they are and however bad -or good- they look), but thats not saying much.

In fact, I think comparing Dragonball to Street Fighter - The Movie or Catwoman in terms of execution is shaping up to be a fair comparison, however premature it is.
 
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The Overlord said:
Could this movie be in trouble?

http://www.filmjunk.com/2008/08/21/fox-considering-scrapping-dragonball-movie/
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I hope not. At this point I don't think they would due to already announcing tie-in books , plus there has been new news

dragonballmovieblog said:
Justin Chatwin and stunt team 87Eleven were interviewed for the October issue of Roadshow. DBthemovie has your translation!

Here are the highlights:

Justin Chatwin:

In preparation for the role, of course I read the original manga (all of it), in addition, I read Monkey King a little, because Dragonball is based on Monkey King. And during the break time of shooting, I got into Goku's character, telling jokes with other cast in search of the real communication which can be used in acting.

This is the most interesting movie for me. Because I have never fought with anyone though, I trained martial arts and acrobat, and then we shot it. That's fun as well as challenging. Fighting with Eriko (Tamura), she punched me in the face, actually she intended to hit lightly, but…it was a clean hit (laugh) She said "I'm sorry!" and apologized to me, but thanks to her, we could shoot very powerful action scene. Through this work, I think I could learn a lot of things.

Highlights of this movie are the action scenes, and amazing visual effects will be made at post production, so I'm looking forward to see it. About Kamehameha I only can imagine it now. I'm so excited. And this movie is the coming-of-age story about a boy, though this is set in a sci-fi world, in my opinion, my best scene is the moment when the characters who got together for the same purpose relate to each other.

87eleven:

Each characters has a different fighting style. For example, Goku's fighting style is a hybrid of capoeira, karate and so on. Chi-Chi's fighting style is based on kick boxing (Muay Thai) style, Master Roshi and Gohan are based on traditional Chinese martial arts (southern style). Justin has good muscle strength of the lower body so to harness this strength, we let him do action. His capoeira motion is very good. He has no experience of martial arts at all, we had to teach him from scratch. But he is doing very well for two months training period.

Highlight of this movie is fighting with Goku and Piccolo, I think it has a tremendous impact. Goku and Gohan's fight is comical, and Chi-Chi does Jackie Chan-like battle. Each character has a unique twist on martial arts.
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I think cancelling it is just a rumour
 
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I was right it was
dragonballmovieblog said:
After the utterly ridiculous rumor that Fox was canceling Dragonball hit the webs a source at Superheroflix says hell to the no! It aint so. Here is what the site has to say:

The film was completed a while ago, and the reasons for moving the film's release date from this summer to next spring was to insure that all of the needed special effects were completed. We have a source that is very close to the film. And he/she says that the first edit is done, and that it has been shown to those "higher ups" at Fox. And that they love the finished film. Our studio contact, who we aren't allowed to name at the moment, worked on the production, and has seen the completed movie. Everyone involved seems to think they have a hit on their hands, and he even went on to say that it was "pretty darn awesome. There is certainly talk about a sequel. I have no doubt that it will happen. I'm sure that it will be a trilogy."

No real surprise there. But it's great to see that the studio is excited about the project.
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Sounds cool. A trilogy? It would be piccolo , Saiyan and Frieza I reckon which would be great
 
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You don't invest that much money into a film and then shelve it. If it were some low budget indie flick about four twentysomethings whining about their post-college careers, they could easily sweep under the rug but this is MF Dragon Ball.
 
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DIrishB said:
Ahem.

This is Fox we're talking about.

Firefly.

Thats all I'm saying.
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That's not the same thing.

Firefly (a great show) is something they shelved after broadcasting about 60% of the episodes, out of order. They effed it up, but it's not like they were trying to kill it... they were just too stupid to know how to make it live.

That, is a completely different thing from spending more than 50 million dollars on a motion picture for big screen release featuring modestly famous names and faces and then saying, "Crap, let's just not release it at all."
 
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ourchair said:
That's not the same thing.

Firefly (a great show) is something they shelved after broadcasting about 60% of the episodes, out of order. They effed it up, but it's not like they were trying to kill it... they were just too stupid to know how to make it live.

That, is a completely different thing from spending more than 50 million dollars on a motion picture for big screen release featuring modestly famous names and faces and then saying, "Crap, let's just not release it at all."
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Its not the same thing, but its close enough to be comparable. And it seems pretty obvious they're "effing up" this Dragonball movie. Thats really what it comes down to. I personally don't even know how you could adapt the franchise to live action for American audiences and make them swallow it. Apparently the production team behind this movie doesn't know how to either.
 
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DIrishB said:
Its not the same thing, but its close enough to be comparable. And it seems pretty obvious they're "effing up" this Dragonball movie. Thats really what it comes down to. I personally don't even know how you could adapt the franchise to live action for American audiences and make them swallow it. Apparently the production team behind this movie doesn't know how to either.
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Whatever creative decisions a studio makes is not the focus of my argument, but rather whatever post-creative decisions they make.

Meaning that choosing to 'make' a property a certain way --- i.e. Let's make the pilot more action packed! Let's make all the Japanese characters white! --- is not the same thing as whatever decisions are applied AFTER the creation of the product --- Let's rearrange the episodes! Let's just not release it at all and abandon the marketing!

What I'm saying is that the two things which we are contending with here --- messing with Firefly and 'considering' not releasing Dragon Ball at all --- belong to two entirely different categories of ****ing up.
 
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ourchair said:
Whatever creative decisions a studio makes is not the focus of my argument, but rather whatever post-creative decisions they make.
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Why is everything a Doctorate thesis with you?

Meaning that choosing to 'make' a property a certain way --- i.e. Let's make the pilot more action packed! Let's make all the Japanese characters white! --- is not the same thing as whatever decisions are applied AFTER the creation of the product --- Let's rearrange the episodes! Let's just not release it at all and abandon the marketing!

What I'm saying is that the two things which we are contending with here --- messing with Firefly and 'considering' not releasing Dragon Ball at all --- belong to two entirely different categories of ****ing up.
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And what I'm saying is that they're both still an example of Fox Studios ****ing up, whatever categories they might fall into.
 
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DIrishB said:
Why is everything a Doctorate thesis with you?
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It's not.

That wouldn't even get me into film school.

And Uwe Boll went to film school.

In any case, I'm not saying that your contentions with Fox are wrong or baseless.

Rather, I'm saying your analogy is false.
 
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ourchair said:
It's not.

That wouldn't even get me into film school.

And Uwe Boll went to film school.
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Ted Kaczynski went to Harvard.

In any case, I'm not saying that your contentions with Fox are wrong or baseless.

Rather, I'm saying your analogy is false.
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Uwe Boll is ****ing insane. He's two steps from an institution. Publicity stunts or not, the ****ing boxing matches "to prove who's the better director" are inherently moronic. The man's a crazy idiot.

Therefore, your analogy is false. ;)

Weak, I know, but I had to at least try and twist it around on you...

But what I keep saying is...what I was saying was intended as a comparison as opposed to an analogy, though granted it is an analogy, despite my intentions. Point is...this movie is being handled horribly, and thats been obvious from early on. I don't have anything against Dragonball, I actually used to be into it (a little) through a friend as a kid, but every bit of news and pics I've seen has left me sad and disappointed. I really hope it turns out well, I really do. But its blatantly obvious from everything I've seen that the approach, casting, and production values have all been a series of horrible mistakes. The special effects could be cool...but for any other aspect of the movie, its a lost cause.
 
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That's right, the trailer has been officially confirmed for October! Here is what Coming Soon reports:

ComingSoon.net has learned that 20th Century Fox will debut the first trailer for Dragonball in theaters on October 17 with the studio's video game adaptation Max Payne, starring Mark Wahlberg, on October 17. We'll have to wait and see whether Fox will release the trailer online earlier that week.

So there you have it! Less than two months away. . .



IGN has more to add:

The first teaser trailer for the live-action feature film version of Dragonball will reportedly hit theaters in October. A studio source informed IGN that, while Oct. 17 is Fox's "target date," nothing is guaranteed until the special effects and requisite approvals are in place.
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:D October = teaser/trailer
 
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There's this old movie, I can't remember what it was called, but it was where this guy raised this monster looking child into an adult in some cold region. Piccolo here looks like that monster thing, if anyone knows what I'm talking about.


This movie is definitely EPIC FAIL.
 
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