How would you make a Hollywood adaption ?

[Ringworm128]

It is the year 2525. Nuclear war has ravaged the planet, reducing once-great civilizations into rubble. The people are frightened. America stands on the brink of destruction, the current administration maintaining infrastructure from a series of underground tunnels beneath the White House.

These are the circumstances under which Goku Jones was raised. This is his world. And when Chinese emperor Chun-Lin proposes to grant one wish to the victor of his tournament and share his country's water supply with theirs, Goku has to make the journey across the sea with the help of his friends. Armed with technology supplied by governor Kami and the bio-experiment Oolong, Goku has just ten days to get to the tournament grounds, seduce his childhood friend, Bulma, and gather the seven Dragon Balls--mechanical spheres containing passwords designed to stop the deadly warhead Chun-Lin plans to unleash during the distraction, codename: Kamehameha.

Time to hold onto your Dragon Balls. There's only one wish to be had, and this summer, it's going to be Goku's. Now the boy becomes a man. He's going to make it by his rules ... or die trying.

"15 years ago the government began work on a bio-engineering project that aimed to combine the DNA of the world's fittest athletes and most brilliant scientists into a single being. We code named this project "Project C.E..L.L"....
"What does this have to do with me?"
"Your father, Brendan Dock was our most brilliant scientist he spear headed the entire project as well as "Operation Fake Moon" and he made one request before he was killed."
"Make sure my son knows the truth"
*Fade to black*
"Intelligence has reported that the data for C.E..L.L has fallen into the hands of Yakovash Gero, a former Soviet scientist turned terrorist. This is where you guy's come in..."
"You have all been selected to be part of the US government's top secret black ops program. Welcome to the "Z Squad".
Bulma: *Cocks rifle* "Y'know how to use one of these?"
Goku: "Maybe".

"I WILL GET THE LAUNCH CODES!!!"
*Explosions*
*Thrash metal plays*
*Random fighting*
"What are we even fighting for!?"
"You are here for a reason Goku!"
Random character: "Nooooooooo!"
*Trailer stops*
*Off screen character appears on the battlefield*
*Camera pans up for the reveal*
"Krillin's in the house!"

Dragonball Z

COMING SUMMER 2017


Sorry for double post. For some reason I can't edit or delete my last one.

[Nejishiki]

It is the year 2525. Nuclear war has ravaged the planet, reducing once-great civilizations into rubble. The people are frightened. America stands on the brink of destruction, the current administration maintaining infrastructure from a series of underground tunnels beneath the White House.

These are the circumstances under which Goku Jones was raised. This is his world. And when Chinese emperor Chun-Lin proposes to grant one wish to the victor of his tournament and share his country's water supply with theirs, Goku has to make the journey across the sea with the help of his friends. Armed with technology supplied by governor Kami and the bio-experiment Oolong, Goku has just ten days to get to the tournament grounds, seduce his childhood friend, Bulma, and gather the seven Dragon Balls--mechanical spheres containing passwords designed to stop the deadly warhead Chun-Lin plans to unleash during the distraction, codename: Kamehameha.

Time to hold onto your Dragon Balls. There's only one wish to be had, and this summer, it's going to be Goku's. Now the boy becomes a man. He's going to make it by his rules ... or die trying.

"15 years ago the government began work on a bio-engineering project that aimed to combine the DNA of the world's fittest athletes and most brilliant scientists into a single being. We code named this project "Project C.E..L.L"....
"What does this have to do with me?"
"Your father, Brendan Dock was our most brilliant scientist he spear headed the entire project as well as "Operation Fake Moon" and he made one request before he was killed."
"Make sure my son knows the truth"
*Fade to black*
"Intelligence has reported that the data for C.E..L.L has fallen into the hands of Yakovash Gero, a former Soviet scientist turned terrorist. This is where you guy's come in..."
"You have all been selected to be part of the US government's top secret black ops program. Welcome to the "Z Squad".
Bulma: *Cocks rifle* "Y'know how to use one of these?"
Goku: "Maybe".

"I WILL GET THE LAUNCH CODES!!!"
*Explosions*
*Thrash metal plays*
*Random fighting*
"What are we even fighting for!?"
"You are here for a reason Goku!"
Random character: "Nooooooooo!"
*Trailer stops*
*Off screen character appears on the battlefield*
*Camera pans up for the reveal*
"Krillin's in the house!"

Dragonball Z

COMING SUMMER 2017


Sorry for double post. For some reason I can't edit or delete my last one.

I could only imagine if that were Evolution instead.

[Madrid_357]

Hello, I am new in this forum and I say sorry for my English if you can not understand sometimes what I say.

In my opinion, I think it would works like Marvel does it with their Marvel Cinematic Universe. First, I think it shouldn't be a Dragonball movie. It should begin with Dragon Ball Z but with a 20 minute introduction of Goku in short clips. Short and simple. Kid Goku and Bulma search for the Dragon Balls. New friends joining them like Yamchu. Goku and Kuririn train with Roshi and so on. Last scene of this introduction is the defeat of Piccolo Jr. in the tournament and the wedding of Chi Chi and Goku. Now backstory is finished. After that we see Goku and his son Gohan are traveling on Jindujun to Roshi and Friends. And so on. The first movie ends with Piccolo takes the unconscious Kid Gohan to train him for the fight against the Saiyans. Credits are rolling. Now the most important think that makes Marvel movies so good too - post-credit scene. In this movie the post-credit scene would be the introduction of Vegeta and Nappa. They listened the words of Radditz and about the Dragon Balls. They decide to travel to the Earth to get them to wish for immortality.

Radditz-Arc would be finished. 2 hours is the time the movie should have.

Next is the Vegeta-Arc. I could continue with that until the end of DBZ and of course Hollywood should make Battle of Gods and Resurrection of F as live action movies.

This was a short view of the story. Now the actors but I just know one actor, who should play in one of the movies. Hayden Christensen as Future Trunks? Future Gohan? Adult Gohan? I don't really know. The actors should feel Dragon Ball Z like we do. Otherwise it would be a Dragon Ball Evolution. And yes, I wouldn't like it if Goku would be an Asian or someone else. Except Kuririn as a monk. The fighting style also shouldn't be too Asian. Otherwise I can watch a Jackie Chan movie and I do not like these movies. The other characters like Cell, Freezer or Boo can be done with GOOD CGI or really good costumes. Think of the things Marvel done with aliens. How good they look. Why not here? Nobody can say Dragon Ball Z can't be a movie while some low budget movie makers can done a better movie than Dragon Ball Evolution is. That is my opinion.

[Esfír Dedragón]

They should really start the adaptation when Goku was little. That way, as the years go by, we can all get the feeling that Goku "grew up" with us.

Can you imagine the reaction of that young actor if/when he finds out that he's been casted to play Goku?

[Hellspawn28]

I do think if Hollywood does another live action DB film, they will probably start with the Saiyan saga and just call it "Dragon Ball Z". By a marketing stand point of view, it would make more money for them and they can do a 5 minute recap of Goku's origin in the film.

[nite_jay]

I don't think that a DB movie be a flop if it started at the beginning of DB. I think it could be very successful if they 1) market it right, 2) make the humor similar to the manga (uncensor it but don't make it too foreign or weird), 3) make Goku likeable enough, and 4) have nice fight scenes. If they were to do this than I think it would do just fine.

[Tian]

I would make a two part movie of the Saiyan Saga : the first part will be about the arrival of Raditz and the second part will be about the fight against Nappa and Vegeta.

[Madrid_357]

I do think if Hollywood does another live action DB film, they will probably start with the Saiyan saga and just call it "Dragon Ball Z". By a marketing stand point of view, it would make more money for them and they can do a 5 minute recap of Goku's origin in the film.

This!

I would make a two part movie of the Saiyan Saga : the first part will be about the arrival of Raditz and the second part will be about the fight against Nappa and Vegeta.

And this!

Totally agree with you both guys. That's what I wrote too. It must start with DBZ because of the economic aspect. And I think one movie for 1 saga is too low.
Saiyan Saga: 2 parts.
Freezer Saga: 3 parts.
Cell Saga: 4?? parts. Maybe lesser.
Boo Saga: 5?? parts. Maybe much lesser.

Why so much parts in the Freezer, Cell or Boo saga? Because there are too many fights and events for just 1 or 2 movies. The bigger and more important fights are for example in the Saiyan Saga: Raditz vs. Piccolo and Goku / Nappa vs. Z-Fighters / Vegeta vs. Goku. Also there are some unimportant or not so bigger fights like the training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. It shouldn't be focused on that very much.

In the Boo, Cell or Freezer saga there are more, way more fights. It would be hell of boring if 90% of the movie would be fighting and that is of course in the anime so this would be the hardest thing to film. So here it should be some small changes.

These should be the main topics of the movie.

Saiyan saga Part 1: Arrival of Raditz and the fight. Postcredit scene: Vegeta and Nappa talk about the Dragon Balls and that they come to earth.
Saiyan saga Part 2: Training of the Z-Fighters and Goku journey to Kaio and of course the 3 challenges of Kaio, but not much scenes because of time. Main part should be the fight against Saibamen, Nappa and then against Vegeta. Postcredit scene: Freezer gets informations that there are namekian Dragon Balls that grant every wish and that he travels to Namek for them.

That could worked good...but the other sagas are really hard to do. It should be a good balance between fights and story.

[Hellspawn28]

I wonder how King Kai would work in live action? Just have Goku's training be done off screen or do have parts of the film with Goku in Other World. I do remember the rumors in 2003 that King Kai in the live action DBZ movie would have King Kai be done through motion capture with Sean Schemmel voicing him.

[Madrid_357]

I wonder how King Kai would work in live action? Just have Goku's training be done off screen or do have parts of the film with Goku in Other World. I do remember the rumors in 2003 that King Kai in the live action DBZ movie would have King Kai be done through motion capture with Sean Schemmel voicing him.

Motion Capture of course. Nowadays the technology is wide enough to do such things. I remember Gollum of LOTR, or the Avatars of Avatar. They are all looking excellent.

[Hellspawn28]

I always did imagine Danny Devito playing King Kai since his humor could fit the role.

[Madrid_357]

I always did imagine Danny Devito playing King Kai since his humor could fit the role.

The "problem" I see here is that many people think of short people because King Kai is short. Because of motion capturing it isn't necessary to have short people in the cast. I think also that King Kai isn't funny the whole time so he also must be serious for example during the fight between Goku and Vegeta. And the important thing, the actor should like Dragon Ball Z and know it good. Maybe Peter Dinklage if a short guy is necessary? Because all know him from Game of Thrones?

[Kamiccolo9]

I always did imagine Danny Devito playing King Kai since his humor could fit the role.

No, Danny Devito has to play Champa.

[Kuwabara]

I wouldn't make a Hollywood adaptation, I would make a faithful adaptation with a big budget.

[Mnich]

They already had their chance to do something with Dragon Ball. It's called Evolution and is the reason why America should stay away from Dragon Ball when it comes to movies. If anything, then I would like to see something from Japan as I just don't see "Son Goku" or "Piccolo Daimao" fighting in New York or Chicago. There's too much Americanization these days. It's my opinion.

[Madrid_357]

They already had their chance to do something with Dragon Ball. It's called Evolution and is the reason why America should stay away from Dragon Ball when it comes to movies. If anything, then I would like to see something from Japan as I just don't see "Son Goku" or "Piccolo Daimao" fighting in New York or Chicago. There's too much Americanization these days. It's my opinion.

The problem isn't America, it is the problem of the Fox studios. I mean, if someone gives me 200-300 million dollars, I would done a better movie than they did because I feel Dragonball more than they - I guess. This phenomen deserves more than 1 movie. It deserves a whole live action universe - if it is possible because of the story.

Maybe you should look the old DB movie Dragon_Ball:_Ssawora_Son_Goku,_Igyeora_Son_Goku... that was so shit that it was dumb funny at the same time.