Dragonball Movie to Do Reshoots

Acid_Reign · Post by **Acid_Reign** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:26 pm

For those of you that haven’t heard yet:

Kotaku wrote:Crummy-Looking Dragonball Movie Getting Reshoots

That Dragonball movie trailer didn't exactly set the world aflame. The frosty reaction that the trailer got might have caused FOX movie execs to order reshoots, and the filmmakers are looking for folks between 20-70 that are fluent in Nepalese or Tibetan. The reshoots start October 30th in Los Angeles. Though, this reshoots just might be pickup footage or insert footage and not remaking the bad. Who knows. FOX does, that's who. (But for goodness sake, some please tell these Hollywood people that Piccolo should be green.)

What do you make of this? Do you think we’ll see any major changes?

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:38 pm

Apparently, little reshoots like this happen quite often, usually to fix mistakes or make little additions. I'm not really worried.

In fact, the Nepalese or Tibetan language bit is interesting. Part of me is hoping it's to film a scene at some far-off monastery, perhaps named "Orin Temple?"

The Time Traveller · Post by **The Time Traveller** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:12 pm

Those shots of Chatwin as Goku in the Kame outfit just looked terrible, that has to be reshot.

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:27 pm

I dunno. I thought the Kame uniform was a rather nice adaption. Take the old and familiar standard and mix it up a little so that its fresh and new, but still easily recognizable as the Kame uniform. So far I feel that a lot of other things and characters in the film are missing that familiarity in their re-imaginings, but the Kame uniform is one of the things I really do genuinely like.

bkev · Post by **bkev** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:27 pm

Gah! If only they needed teenagers who knew about the series THEN I'd be ready for a quick appearance! ...*Scours the internet for reshoot site so he can protest*

Tatsunoboshi Horoko · Post by **Tatsunoboshi Horoko** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:31 pm

I really wouldn't be surprised if they were taking tan-skinned people who come to their audition speaking semi-convincing Asian gibberish. (Though, it would be a nice throwback to Dr. Slump, at the very least.)

Chrono Trigger · Post by **Chrono Trigger** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:33 pm

It's a shame they can't just redo the whole movie....

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:38 pm

Chrono Trigger wrote:It's a shame they can't just redo the whole movie....

Well, when the American version of Godzilla flopped, in Japan they replied with Godzilla 2000. If this new American version of Dragonball shares the same fate, maybe we'll get a response from Japan in the form of a movie.

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:39 pm

That trailer looked so bad, that I'm afraid anyone who never saw the show or read the Manga would just look down on it.

JAPPO · Post by **JAPPO** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:42 pm

TheGreatness25 wrote:That trailer looked so bad, that I'm afraid anyone who never saw the show or read the Manga would just look down on it.

Don't be afraid of some other persons opinion.

MisterFlashdude · Post by **MisterFlashdude** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:43 pm

Kendamu wrote:
Chrono Trigger wrote:It's a shame they can't just redo the whole movie....
Well, when the American version of Godzilla flopped, in Japan they replied with Godzilla 2000. If this new American version of Dragonball shares the same fate, maybe we'll get a response from Japan in the form of a movie.

That's so what I'm looking forward to. Here's to hoping they'll make a movie in which Goku kicks Chatwin's ass.

Chrono Trigger · Post by **Chrono Trigger** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:47 pm

MisterFlashDude wrote:That's so what I'm looking forward to. Here's to hoping they'll make a movie in which Goku kicks Chatwin's ass.

Terrible adaption or not you can't hate on the actors. They're just trying to make a living and I bet they would have liked a closer adaption just as much as we would have.

MisterFlashdude · Post by **MisterFlashdude** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:59 pm

Chrono Trigger wrote: Terrible adaption or not you can't hate on the actors.

No, I really dislike Chatwin. His bland attempts at teen angst have been pissing me off since War of the Worlds. Though, since this thread isn't about Chatwin, I'll leave it at that.

Chrono Trigger · Post by **Chrono Trigger** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:05 pm

Oh! I never thought about it like that. My bad. Anyway to keep things on topic I really doubt they're re-shooting anything major. Probably just some minor stuff that nobody would ever notice.

JAPPO · Post by **JAPPO** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:20 pm

Personally, I can't wait until the sequel. Fox obviously rushed the filming on this one and so I think it will turn out like X-Men 1. A good adaptation, but nothing amazing. Then the sequel will hopefully be like X-Men 2, which is my favorite comic book movie so far.

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:23 pm

JAPPO wrote:Personally, I can't wait until the sequel. Fox obviously rushed the filming on this one and so I think it will turn out like X-Men 1. A good adaptation, but nothing amazing. Then the sequel will hopefully be like X-Men 2, which is my favorite comic book movie so far.

I'd say the same thing, but with the Spider-Man movies instead.

Super Sonic · Post by **Super Sonic** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:49 pm

With re-doing things, that happens. Remember Two Towers and Return of the King had flown the cast members down after most was done to re-do some things after Fellowship came out.

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:52 pm

I don't understand why people are looking forward to this movie.

1) Goku goes to high school
2) Nimbus is a yellow sports car
3) Roshi is a serious martial arts teacher
4) It looks like Mortal Kombat status
5) What the hell is Mai doing in there with no Shu or Pilaf...and with Piccolo?
6) Goku's in high school!

I mean...really. Really. People get so hot at FUNimation for changing around scripts, and people get into heated arguments over canon vs filler... And yet, to a movie that follows absolutely ZERO from the story, people are excited? I mean the costumes themselves look like they were made out of construction paper. Goku's hair looks ridiculous. It looks like a group of teenagers got together, made a movie, then decided to call it Dragon Ball. Why not just change the title, change the names of the characters, and change the names of the Dragon Balls themselves and make an original movie since that's what they're going to do anyway? This movie looks terrible. And the sequel? People already talking about the sequel? Who even knows if they'll let them do a sequel after this bombs. It has to bomb. There is no way it could do well. Unless people just want to see how bad it is. Dragon Ball was never meant to be a movie. Even if we move aside from the hair and all that, it simply was not meant to be a movie! There is entirely way too much in the story for it to be a 2 hour movie. Even ten movies wouldn't nail down the Dragon Ball story itself! This is just a cheap way to try to make money. If this movie does well, then I'm writing my own Superman movie. Here's the synopsis:

"Mars is in turmoil! Aliens have come to Mars and are killing all the inhabitants. Mars' president Jor-El sent his only infant son, Kal-El to Earth to escape Mars' bleak fate. Found by an old widow, the child was taken to an orphanage where he was renamed Clark Kent. As Clark gets older, he realizes that he can do things that nobody else can do. For one thing, he can fly! Faster than a speedy hollow-tip! More powerful than a 747! Able to leap over the Eiffel tower in a single jump! Now the child grows up to be a man and is bound for the big city! Los Angeles is about to get a hero that it will never forget! However, not everything is as it seems. Despite finding his wife, Lois, a fast-talking single mother who can find herself into any jam because of her risky job in the CIA, Superman has to tangle with the mayor, Lex Luthor. Luthor has made contacts with the aliens that destroyed Mars and got them to come to Earth to try to defeat Superman. However, Luthor realizes the grave errors in this. Now Luthor and Superman must work together, not only for themselves, not only for their wives, not only for Los Angeles, but for the entire world! You will not believe this amazing story as it unfolds, more true than any comic book could explain it. Superman: The Man of Steel! Coming soon!"

And yet... In some crazy way, that was multiple times more true to the original than the Dragon Ball movie.

Sprite Satan · Post by **Sprite Satan** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:57 pm

TheGreatness25 wrote:I mean...really. Really. People get so hot at FUNimation for changing around scripts, and people get into heated arguments over canon vs filler... And yet, to a movie that follows absolutely ZERO from the story, people are excited? I mean the costumes themselves look like they were made out of construction paper. Goku's hair looks ridiculous. It looks like a group of teenagers got together, made a movie, then decided to call it Dragon Ball. Why not just change the title, change the names of the characters, and change the names of the Dragon Balls themselves and make an original movie since that's what they're going to do anyway? This movie looks terrible. And the sequel? People already talking about the sequel? Who even knows if they'll let them do a sequel after this bombs. It has to bomb. There is no way it could do well. Unless people just want to see how bad it is. Dragon Ball was never meant to be a movie. Even if we move aside from the hair and all that, it simply was not meant to be a movie! There is entirely way too much in the story for it to be a 2 hour movie. Even ten movies wouldn't nail down the Dragon Ball story itself! This is just a cheap way to try to make money.

Agreed. It's no more accurate a Dragon Ball movie than if you paid to watch me paint my testicles orange with red stars. But a lot less fun than watching me do that, for sure.

And make no mistake about it, regardless of quality, this movie will bomb hard. No-one who's not a Dragon Ball nut will bother with it. The Dragon Ball community that would watch it is small enough to not matter (and even if 100% of us went, it still wouldn't turn a profit). There will be no sequel.

Super Sonic · Post by **Super Sonic** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:58 pm

Some want to see how bad it will be. Or some want to see how it's re-imagined. After all, though granted 95% of this board wasn't born yet, haven't heard complaints about Toei's Spider-Man, and how they changed things. And sometimes staying true doesn't always mean greatness. Look at Annihilation. Was very true to Ultimate MK3 give or take a few things, but not a great movie, though its theme song was pretty badass. Also remember a year ago many were complaining about an Australian pretty boy being cast as one the greatest comic book villains.