Dragon Ball Film Reboot

[Son Geeko]

Dragonball will never and I mean NEVER will work as a live action film, just look it's a show about these guys with big muscles flying around and blowing up things with lasers from their hands.

If it was a plain, flat out, shot-by-shot live action remake with no changes to the story or characters or tone, than yeah, it wouldn't work. But if you made some changes and adjusting to the story, characters, setting, tone, and pacing (not too much though, you don't won't the anger the fans), a live-action adaption of DB can actually work.

[Hellspawn28]

That'll never happen, especially with the level of talent you're suggesting.

I know it will never happen but that's the Dragon Ball movie that I personally want. Starting off with Radditz coming down to Earth and ending the movie with the fight with Goku and Vegeta would have work much better. More people remember DBZ then Dragon Ball with Goku as a kid.

Speed Racer has a 38% on Rotten Tomatoes, I wanted a Dragon Ball to have good reviews and do well at the box office unlike Dragon Ball Evolution. J.J. Abrams or Steven Spielberg would be the best choice to reboot Dragon Ball IMO.

Or Michael Bay.

A Dragon Ball movie that is a loud and stupid with raciest comic relief characters? No thank you, I think some one like JJ. Abrams would work since he knows how to handle characters and stories very well. Super 8 and Star Trek '09 both did a nice job on those two things. I also prefer Steven Spielberg because he is still a good director and he can help the movie as the producer.

Before anyone mentions the Transformers sequels and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Spielberg had nothing to do with the Transformers sequels and he even blame Lucas on Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Which I thought it was a okay movie but not as awful as most people made it out to be).

[Piccolo Daimao]

If you made some changes and adjusting to the story, characters, setting, tone, and pacing (not too much though, you don't want the anger the fans), a live-action adaption of DB can actually work.

That's impossible. No matter what, there will always be certain fans who'll dislike certain film adaptations of things like manga or comic books, even if it's for little nitpicky things.

[Hellspawn28]

Also with another film, they could star the film out with Goku's ship crashing down to Earth and Grandpa Gohan finding him then do Goku's origins through the intro credits similar how the 2008 Hulk did.

[MarcFBR]

Seriously name me one good movie which hollywood adapted from an anime or video game, these things just never work.

Speed Racer was good (if not as accurate as people seem to think it was.)

and Anime and games are no harder to adapt than comics. Comics got one huge well received blockbuster, which caused more effort to be spent on future adaptions. Before that there were decades of tons of horrible comic films with a few good ones.

There are plenty of decent manga and other Asian comics that were adapted into live action films, and most of those also had anime adaptions.

As for games, and sticking strictly to 'Hollywood'- Mortal Kombat was pretty fun, Tomb Raider 1 wasn't bad, although I didn't see 2, Doom was actually quite amusing, Prince of Persia wasn't great, but it was good, Assassins Creed Lineage was a low budget miniseries that was decent, and naming another miniseries, plenty of people liked MK Lineage.

And honestly, I felt the DOA movie wasn't bad.


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Spider-Man, X-Men, Iron Man, etc. are in no way easier to adapt than anime or games.

[Kid Buu]

I agree with Batman being over the top, which is why I didn't like Nolans films. It tried to take the series in a serious and gritty route, yet to me I can't take a Billionaire dressing up as a Bat and beating the crap out of criminals in a serious and gritty tone.

Then you clearly haven't been reading the comics, since that's the direction they've been taking with Batman for quite awhile.


Before Frank Miller went insane, he created one of the finest examples of how you can take a costumed hero and make him fairly realistic (for a better example, go read Watchmen). Year One is more akin to film-noir than an actual superhero comic book.

You're right, I have never read a Batman comic, but I still cannot just buy into The Dark Knight's hype.

I kind of like Begins, which was mostly due to that atmosphere that in my opinion TDK lacked. Not to mention, the Scarecrow was a creepy villain....that was an underrated performance.

[MarcFBR]

I agree with Batman being over the top, which is why I didn't like Nolans films. It tried to take the series in a serious and gritty route, yet to me I can't take a Billionaire dressing up as a Bat and beating the crap out of criminals in a serious and gritty tone.

Then you clearly haven't been reading the comics, since that's the direction they've been taking with Batman for quite awhile.


Before Frank Miller went insane, he created one of the finest examples of how you can take a costumed hero and make him fairly realistic (for a better example, go read Watchmen). Year One is more akin to film-noir than an actual superhero comic book.

You're right, I have never read a Batman comic, but I still cannot just buy into The Dark Knight's hype.

I kind of like Begins, which was mostly due to that atmosphere that in my opinion TDK lacked. Not to mention, the Scarecrow was a creepy villain....that was an underrated performance.

I enjoy Year One, but you have to type realistic this way "realistic" because it's a world of overdone internal monologues, whores whores whores, and more things that from a realistic perspective tends to skirt on that edge. Pseudo-realistic is better. Of course that is completely out the window if you read his 'sequel' to Year One, where realistic doesn't exist.

Dark Knight's hype largely was overblown, as is Year One's often.

[DBZ Mick]

But if you made some changes and adjusting to the story, characters, setting, tone, and pacing (not too much though, you don't won't the anger the fans), a live-action adaption of DB can actually work.

I just don't see it working successfully. I can't but think they'll have to change a lot of things for non-fnas because you know movies can't be made just for fans and there's so much happening storywise.

Just keep it to animation.

[Son Geeko]

That's impossible. No matter what, there will always be certain fans who'll dislike certain film adaptations of things like manga or comic books, even if it's for little nitpicky things.

Yeah, I know that. I meant that you shouldn't anger the fans too much, as in, pretty much the majority the fans will dislike it as whole, which was like what happened to Evolution, pretty much almost all fans of DB hated that movie. So if a live-action reboot was made, they should be more careful on what they change and how much they change it.

[Silver Sinspawn]

Doom was actually quite amusing

You mean, because it was so bad, right?