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NEWS: No Live Action DBZ?


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Proman



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 1:14 am Reply with quote
OH NO Evil or Very Mad ! ~Turns into a Super Sayan~ KAMEHAMEHA!
I'm not talking about myself here but I know that a lot of people are going to be upset about this. I also know that a lot of people are going to be very happy.
Still I wonder if this information is correct.
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Tenchi



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 1:26 am Reply with quote
I chatted with at least one if not two of the editors here about this very subject recently, saying that I don't know if it's an absolutely dead project, but, at best, it's in preproduction limbo, and, if the rumours about Roland Emmerich being attached to the project as a director ever had even a shred of validity, he lost interest, since he has a lot on his slate: last year, he was shooting the soon-to-be-released big budget disaster pic The Day After Tomorrow up here in Montreal, and, this year, he'll be shooting the big budget historical epic King Tut, and he also has a more "indie" project called The Girls Next Door in the works.

I still think Independence Day was one of the best popcorn flicks of the 1990s, even if it's one of those films that seems fashionable to bash. It's supposed to be all tongue-in-cheek.
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GATSU



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 1:39 am Reply with quote
Sounds like bs. I don't think FUNimation would make an official announcement on the live-action film in the first place if it was fake. You could get sued for stuff like that.
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Tenchi



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 1:56 am Reply with quote
I think the truth is probably that Fox did indeed "option" the rights to do a live-action version but, when they looked at how much it would cost to actually produce the thing (which I don't know, but obviously someone somewhere ran the numbers), decided that it would be too expensive a risk to take.

Studios "option" the rights to more properties than they ever actually produce into films.

I'm still waiting for my Power Pack movie, damnit! Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 7:27 am Reply with quote
Cool And here I was counting on the LA DBZ movie to completely flop when it came out because the general public wasn't into the fad anymore. Guess it happened before they could even do the movie.
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DeSpawn



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 9:44 am Reply with quote
sigh of releif

I'm kind of glad that there may not be a Live action adaptation of Dragon Ball Z... I probably couldn't stomach the advertising campain that would have evenutally came with a moive.

Though I am rather curious what direction a DBZ movie would have taken. True to the series or i guess "contemporise" (sp) it.
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Wolf Tooth



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 11:06 am Reply with quote
Amen, DeSpawn, amen.

Doing a live DBZ movie is like making 7 Samuri an animated movie. It just wouldn't work out for the best.
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Tenchi



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 1:47 pm Reply with quote
On the same message board (which I won't link to, but it's not DBZOA this time) which was perpetuating this completely bogus, poorly-written interview with Roland Emmerich from "Brazilian TV", whom, they claimed, had just finished shooting the live-action Dragonball Z film, as though it was true, they're now denouncing Kyle Hebert's claim that Fox said that they won't be making this movie as being false.

So, they can excercise their critical thinking faculties when it comes to information from a fairly credible source like Hebert, the English voice of Gohan, but not when it comes to totally-fake, anonymously e-mailed interviews which don't appear anywhere else on the Internet containing information which can not be verified on any credible movie information site?

And we can know that the interview was fake, since


  1. Roland Emmerich was shooting The Day After Tomorrow in Montreal last year.
  2. Studios do not start shooting mega-budget movies in total secrecy, since they have to mobilize a huge number of people. What goes on on the set is often shrouded in secrecy, but the fact a movie is in production is well-known.
  3. Also, the actors in the film would be known, Emmerich wouldn't claim that "It's a secret".
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 1:49 pm Reply with quote
littlegreenwolf wrote:
Cool And here I was counting on the LA DBZ movie to completely flop when it came out because the general public wasn't into the fad anymore. Guess it happened before they could even do the movie.

I agree. I too would've like to see this movie flop. My hatred for the FUNimation dub knows no bounds. Sure, the live action would've been diifferent, but the principle remains the same for me: just keep the thing animated and in Japanese (unless dubbed like the first 3 movies), and I'll be happy. Cool
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DCRavenX





PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 3:21 pm Reply with quote
They probably decided not to make a movie, because they couldn't get the hair right. That would be kind of funny.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 4:11 pm Reply with quote
Well, Vegeta would've worked with a slicked-back hairstyle, if you ask me. Laughing

Anyway, I find myself amazingly indifferent here. I stopped liking DBZ ages ago, but I was mildly intrigued about how a live action version would turn out. Now that it's pretty much done before it even got started, though, it...doesn't feel like much of a loss. Eh, I just hope the Evangelion movie gets farther along in production than this little project did.
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Neardawg1979



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 9:27 pm Reply with quote
I'm a DBZ fan, but I don't like the idea of a LA movie. They would either change everything so it was unrecognizable to its fans, or they would use CG to stay true to the series but it would look ridiculous. I might see it out of curiousisty, but I'd expect it to suck. Sad
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AnimeHeretic



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 1:36 am Reply with quote
Neardawg1979 wrote:
I'm a DBZ fan, but I don't like the idea of a LA movie. They would either change everything so it was unrecognizable to its fans, or they would use CG to stay true to the series but it would look ridiculous. I might see it out of curiousisty, but I'd expect it to suck. Sad

I sort of recall a LA movie was made (I recall seeing it for sale in TRSI). It's one I passed on because it looked so awful.
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Otakuboy T



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:25 am Reply with quote
I liked YUA and PSSM LA's

But I'm pretty sure I'd hatted DBZ LA.

Thank goodness.
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amanz



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:09 am Reply with quote
For one thing Kyle Hebert did not say any of this if you would go to his web site you will see it is not Kyle but the guy that runs his site that is saying all of this Otherworld Steve. Second Funi has said that it is another Rumor. Third Fox has not said anything about this and probably won't because it is just another rumor. Fourth countingdown comingsoon Anime Dream none of these other very reliable movie news sights will say anything about this because they know its just a rumor till Fox says something (and just because Otherworld Steve said he talked with Fox he called Fox up and demanded to know about it lol that doesn‘t mean anything). Finally in the "phone call to fox" the man that works at fox basically says they never had DBZ (to me that means he made it up or he talked with someone who knew nothing about the movie) which is not true Fox said they had bought the rights to the DBZ movie and also said that they had gone to Japan and talked with Akira and Toei animation.
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