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Dragonball: Evolution
Dragonball - Evolution is an upcoming 2009 American live-action film adaptation of the Dragon Ball media franchise being produced by 20th Century Fox. The story centers around the adventures of the lead character, Goku, from his childhood into adulthood. The film began development in 2002, and is directed by James Wong and produced by Stephen Chow. It is scheduled for release on April 8, 2009. Actor Justin Chatwin was cast as Goku, and James Marsters will be portraying Lord Piccolo, the antagonist of the film.
Synopsis
Goku (Justin Chatwin) goes on a journey to find Master Roshi (Chow Yun-Fat) and gather the seven mystical Dragon Balls before the evil Lord Piccolo (James Marsters) can. Along his way, he meets Bulma (Emmy Rossum) who then joins him to help him in his mission. When arriving at Roshi's place, he is not welcomed with an embrace but has to fight Roshi. Roshi soon learns that Goku is the grandson of Gohan (Randall Duk Kim) and thus trains him to prepare him for the ultimate battle with Lord Piccolo to prevent him from collecting the powerful Dragon Balls.
Production
In March 2002, 20th Century Fox acquired feature film rights to the Dragon Ball franchise. In June 2004, Ben Ramsey, who wrote The Big Hit, was paid $500,000 to adapt Dragon Ball Z. In 2007, James Wong and Stephen Chow were announced as director and producer respectively, and the project was retitled Dragonball: Evolution. Wong rewrote the script. The first full color image of Justin Chatwin as Goku was released in the 24th issue of Weekly Young Jump. Chow was a Dragon Ball fan, citing its "airy and unstrained story leaves much room for creation", but explained he would only serve as producer because he believes that he should only direct stories he had created. 87Eleven, the stunt performance company that worked on The Matrix and 300, is working on the film. Ariel Shaw, who worked on Wong's entries in the Final Destination series and 300, is visual effects supervisor. Robert MacLachlan, who also worked on Wong's Final Destination films, serves as cinematographer.
Shooting began on December 3, 2007, in Mexico City, Mexico. Locations included the Universidad Tecnológica de México. From January 2, 2008, the crew shot at Durango. The crew will move to Estado de México in March for some shots at Nevado de Toluca. Shooting is also scheduled at Los Angeles, California. In adapting the Dragon Ball manga, the futuristic cities were kept, however, the anthropomorphic creatures and talking animals (such as Turtle, Oolong and Puar) were dropped. Many of the locations are very Oriental, and there will be some Aztec influence too, particularly from their temples. It was thought that Rossum would wear a blue wig to resemble her anime counterpart, but due to some promotional images, it was turned out that she would not be wearing a blue wig. Instead she will have her natural brown with a blue streak down the middle of her har. Chatwin will not wear a wig as the director felt Chatwin's hair resembled Goku's. A large amount of Dragonball: Evolution was shot in an abandoned jeans factory, also located in Durango, Mexico.
Dragonball: Evolution special effects are being done by Amalgamated Dynamics, while the visual effects are being done by Ollin Studios, Zoic Studios, and Imagine Engine. The film will also have the anime style of fighting in Dragon Ball Z, such as chi energy blasts and auras.
On December 9, 2008, it was confirmed that the theme song will be Rule by Japanese pop icon Ayumi Hamasaki. The choice was because director James Wong wanted the movie adaptation of a manga/anime born in Japan to be sung by a Japanese person and was particularly impressed with Hamasaki. Rule will be used as the theme song for every country's release, including America.
The film was original slated to be named Dragonball, however on December 10, 2008 a trailer was released using the name Dragonball: Evolution and Fox licensed the domain name "DragonballEvolutionMovie.com" indicating the film had been renamed.
Directed by James Wong
Produced by Stephen Chow
James Wong
Written by Screenplay:
James Wong
Ben Ramsey
Manga:
Akira Toriyama
Starring Justin Chatwin
James Marsters
Emmy Rossum
Jamie Chung
Joon Park
Eriko Tamura
Randall Duk Kim
Texas Battle
Ernie Hudson
Chow Yun-Fat
Music by Brian Tyler
Cinematography Robert MacLachlan
Editing by Chris G. Willingham
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date(s) April 8, 2009
Running time 98 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $100 million
Source: Wikipedia
I luv dragon ball z but I wish they would've made this movie. They ruined it and it makes it look really stupid. Goku was never a highschooler like spider man or some random super hero shit. Bulma never faught like that. Omg this is bad. -_-
BakaSoundNinjaXD 2 years ago 21
Im a dragon ball fan and this movie makes me want to never watch it and i never will
MMAGTR 2 years ago 16