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NEWS: No Live Action DBZ from Fox


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Portgas D. Ace



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:48 am Reply with quote
Thank God. That's all I have to say.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 2:33 pm Reply with quote
Hmmm... an actual piece of news rather than a worthless Internet rumor?

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From ComingSoon.net.

Ben Ramsey Adapting Dragonball Z for Fox
Source: Variety
Friday, June 25, 2004



Screenwriter Ben Ramsey ("The Big Hit") has signed to adapt Dragonball Z for the big screen for 20th Century Fox, reports Variety. Dragonball Z was adapted from the "Dragonball" manga created by Akira Toriyama and later developed into a Japanese anime series.

"Dragonball Z" follows the adventures of an adult humanoid alien who's just discovered that he was sent to Earth to blend in and destroy our population but instead elects to protect it from an oncoming alien onslaught.

Ramsey recently wrote the adaptation of Marvel's Luke Cage at Sony's Columbia Pictures, as well as Static for Columbia-based producer Neal Moritz.


Of course, writing a screenplay is only a small step, but, still, this is more actual news about the bloody thing than we've heard since... oh, about March 2002.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 2:47 pm Reply with quote
Didn't fox just cancel the project?
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:04 pm Reply with quote
Kyle Hebert (well, Otherworld Steve) told us the truth about what he knew about the project from the best information source he could find, some receptionist at Fox. The receptionist would likely be aware of the status of the projects in active development, but a studio like Fox would have dozens, if not hundreds, of projects on the back-burner, things that aren't in active production but are ready to go into active production should Fox feel that the time is right, and I doubt a receptionist would be aware of the exact status of all back-burner items like the live-action Dragonball Z.

So, while Kyle Hebert has infinitely more credibility than some anonymous guy on a message board somewhere going "ROLAND EMMERICH IS TEH DIRECTOR AND TEH FLIM WAS MADE IN SECRIT IN BRAZIL AND HUGH JACKMAN WAS GOIN TO BE GOKU BUT HE WAS FIRED FOR HOLDIN UP PRODUCTION", he's still, more or less, "some guy" and a serious industry news source like Variety has far more credibility than he does.

But a lot of screenplays studios commission never get produced, so I wouldn't be preordering tickets to the live-action Dragonball Z just quite yet.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:06 pm Reply with quote
Fox was said to have canned it, but nothing was actually said by Fox itself, just from people on the inside (in this case a rep, but reps only really know what they're told to know.)

So I guess it's on... again... I wonder how long they've been siting on this info before reporting it.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:07 pm Reply with quote
Well, if there is a screenplay, they ought to release it as a book or something just in case the movie never gets made just so we could see what could've been.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:27 pm Reply with quote
Tenchi: Third-hand information is not the best information.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:37 pm Reply with quote
If it's in Variety, I think it can be believed. I'm not paying to see the information on the Variety site, but I don't see any reason to think that ComingSoon.net is misrepresenting what is appearing in Daily Variety.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:49 pm Reply with quote
Tenchi: I'm referring to Kyle.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:06 pm Reply with quote
Ah, okay, misunderstood, but that's pretty much what I was implying before.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:37 pm Reply with quote
Regarding Filmforces original article. Right now it attributes the quotes to DragonballZ.com, but did it actually attribute those quotes to DBZ.com when the article was originally posted?

I ask this because I honestly don't remember seing any mention of DBZ.com when I first read the article.

This wouldn't be the first time Filmforce re-wrote articles after they were posted.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 9:09 pm Reply with quote
Looks like GATSU called it.
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Emerje



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 10:00 pm Reply with quote
Miagi wrote:
Looks like GATSU called it.


Indeed he did.

Hey, thanks to whoever went the extra step and got the info varified by Kang's office (Tempest, I assume it was you). It's added footwork like that which allows me to appreciate ANN more and more. Also I just added it to the news at www.dragonballtoys.com and felt ANN deserved some credit for that, but I guess I'm a bit biased. Wink

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 10:22 pm Reply with quote
Oh God no!!! Why is their being a live action movie being made of a anime series that is horrible (no plot, characters revive over and over, and fight scenes that drag on for over 20 episodes) Oh wait ADD kids + live action DBZ movie=$$$ For FOX. Twisted Evil
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 10:33 pm Reply with quote
ZODDGUTS wrote:
Oh God no!!! Why is their being a live action movie being made of a anime series that is horrible (no plot, characters revive over and over, and fight scenes that drag on for over 20 episodes) Oh wait ADD kids + live action DBZ movie=$$$ For FOX. Twisted Evil

DBZ is not a horrible anime, DBZ actually is one of the biggest draws that got a lot of people into anime. And the show just attracts people so what can i say? The show was suppose to have ended after the Frieza saga, but the show was so popular that Akira Toriyama decided to continue it. So what i really mean to say is try not to be so harsh when criticizing an anime, as whether you like it or not Dragonball Z is going down in anime history, and if the movie does as well as planned it might go down in American film history.
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