How Might It Have Been if We Got Roland Emmerich's DBZ movie

Hellspawn28 · Post by **Hellspawn28** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:04 pm

I remember back in 2002 or 2003 (the link is below) that Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, Godzilla (1998), The Patriot, The Day after Tomorrow, and 2012) may be interested in filming a Dragonball Z movie. So if he did direct a DBZ movie back in 2004, then do you think the movie would have been better or worse than the live action movie that we have got from James Wong?

http://movies.ign.com/articles/429/429907p1.html

Sorry if this was done before since I use the Search bar, and found nothing.

DBZfan29 · Post by **DBZfan29** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:09 pm

I'm not so familiar with the guy, but just by looking at his work, I'd say he'd let Nappa have his best day ever...

VenomSymbiote · Post by **VenomSymbiote** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:15 pm

DBZfan29 wrote:I'm not so familiar with the guy, but just by looking at his work, I'd say he'd let Nappa have his best day ever...

Roland Emmerich is famous for large scale disaster movies. I would have loved to see him work his magic on making Planet Namek explode.

Hellspawn28 · Post by **Hellspawn28** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:17 pm

I'm pretty sure his movie would have been more closer to the series, and fans would like it a bit more then we would have got instend. While the critics would likely hate it, but it won't be as silly then the movie that we got. I remember Hugh Jackman or Eric Bana was hire to play as Goku too? I wounder how that would be like?

DBZfan29 · Post by **DBZfan29** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:35 pm

VenomSymbiote wrote:
DBZfan29 wrote:I'm not so familiar with the guy, but just by looking at his work, I'd say he'd let Nappa have his best day ever...
Roland Emmerich is famous for large scale disaster movies. I would have loved to see him work his magic on making Planet Namek explode.

I was actually going to say that too, but Nappa's best day ever sounded more funnier at the moment!

Hellspawn28 · Post by **Hellspawn28** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:50 pm

As for popularity or box office performance, it's unknown what could have happened. Roland was known to screw up The Godzilla series, and then maybe he would have done the same too. I think the movie would have been a Transformers mixed with The Martix type of movie. Fans might have liked it more than the movie we got, but it would still not have been a good or great movie.

I have been told the movie was going to be two and half hours long, and they had plans to do four movies. If the movie was made and did well then we would have DBZ3 by now.

nathantheguitarist · Post by **nathantheguitarist** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 12:03 am

You're taking a lot of the old rumors a little too seriously. Pretty much the only real solid news of the movie at the time was what you posted from IGN.

Anyone who thought Jackie Chan, or Jet Li, was going to play Goku was out of their minds.

But even then, it still not really that solid, considering IGN was taking info from IMDB.

I'm also guessing that Goldberg was never actually offered the part of Nappa. That was probably one of the "So suitable that it just has to be true" rumors.

...and then we got Evolution.

While I was glad to see it finally come out, I can't help but feel let down at how much better it could have been. I think I'd say with Emmerich at the helm that it would've been better. It probably wouldn't have been tremendously better, but it would've been much more watchable, and I probably would've rushed for the DVD as soon as it was on sale. Now though, I'm waiting for it to show up in the $5 bin at Walmart, along with Street Fighter Legend of Chun-Li (which was much worse lol, but I enjoyed Robin Shou).

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 12:55 am

The special effects would've been better. I can say that with certainty. The plot? Eh....no telling for sure.
I saw The Day after Tomorrow for the amazing special effects, not the plotline. Actually, according to wikipedia, the actress who portrayed Bulma in DBE was in The Day after Tomorrow, but I can't recall who she even played. That's how that sort of movie is to me. ^^; I really enjoy "special effects movies", but I know there's always a good chance the plotline itself isn't going to be up to par with said special effects.

I know I've seen Independence Day (and to tie it into DBE again, there was actually a clip of an explosion from Independence Day that was recycled and used in DBE) but its been so long that I can't recall it at all aside from the fact that it starred Will Smith and there were lots of explosions.

I think I would've been happy with almost anything that wasn't what we ended up with. I'm just relieved there won't be a sequel at this point. Chatku, kamehamehas that heal you, "airbending", high school, and GoHAAN? Ugh. >_<

Cartman Blues · Post by **Cartman Blues** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 1:14 am

Don't worry guys, I'm young enough (15) to plan a good college to learn in the subject of film/graphic design. I'll make the best DBZ movie ever! Don't be surprised if I don't come back asking for suggestions!

YouTube · Post by **Hujio** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 2:07 am

Hellspawn28, I'm going to say this the nicest way I know how (I'm not really trying to be ass, just informative); in almost every post you're confusing the word than with then.

Hellspawn28 wrote:So if he did direct a DBZ movie back in 2004, then do you think the movie would have been better or worse than the live action movie that we got from James Wong?

Also, "have got"... Try thinking of it this way; if you already "have" it, then you most certainly "got" it. Saying "have got" is redundant and really makes no sense in English. Now you can say "have gotten", since it's past tense.

Hellspawn28 wrote:Fans might have liked it more than the movie we got, but it would still not have been a good or great movie.

It took me a while to figure out what you were actually trying to say here, but I think that's it, right?

I just thought you might want to know, and it was annoying me. That said, I haven't even seen the actual live action movie... so I have no idea.

MCDaveG · Post by **MCDaveG** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 6:02 am

Huijo: I understood what was Hellspawn trying to say..... I can read between the lines

Post by **TripleRach** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:09 am

IGN wrote:Also, several sources are suggesting that WWE wrestler Bill Goldberg has been offered the role of "Nappa" in the Dragonball Z film. That's not confirmed though, and there's so much fan speculation going on, it tends to drown out legitimate reports.

This was complete crap. As a fan of pro wrestling, I hear about every tiny movie or television role a wrestler gets, and I never saw any mention of this. But since so many people believed it was true (unlike the Hugh Jackman or Cameron Diaz stuff, which was easy to write off), I even emailed respected wrestling reporters at the time to ask about it, and they all told me they'd never heard anything about it. I believe I even posted quotes from those emails here years ago.

Plus, within the context of that article, a script hadn't even been written yet, so I find it highly unlikely that they'd be casting minor characters like Nappa before they even have a script, since a future script which may not even include someone like him. And in the end, it didn't. We got a Piccolo-based story, and all of his henchmen were replaced with nameless blobs and Mai. So even if they had done a Vegeta story, Nappa might have been replaced with Draculaman or something.