Your dream cast for a Dragonball Film

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Re: Your dream cast for a Dragonball Film

Post by Piccolo Daimao » Sat Feb 05, 2011 6:28 pm

Ahiru77 wrote:Seth Green - Krillin
Eh. I don't think he's short enough to play Kuririn.
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Re: Your dream cast for a Dragonball Film

Post by Son Geeko » Sat Feb 05, 2011 8:18 pm

Soujia Boy as Goku (Bitch he looks like Goku)

The Situation as Vegeta

Chris Tucker as Kuririn

Jaden Smith as Kid Goku and Willow Smith as Kid Chi Chi (What? Will Smith needs to make more money off his children somehow...)

etc etc etc

Athough to be serious, I don't think there's anyone that I know of that would be good choices, but if time doesn't matter in this topic, I think a young Elijah Wood wouldn't be a bad choice for Kid Goku. But other then that, I'd probably also choose unknowns like what Mountain and TheDevilsCorpse said what they would do.
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Ahiru77 wrote:Seth Green - Krillin
Eh. I don't think he's short enough to play Kuririn.
Then they could just use CGI to make him look shorter, simple as that.

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Re: Your dream cast for a Dragonball Film

Post by SparkyPantsMcGee » Sat Feb 05, 2011 10:25 pm

Johnny Yong Bosch= Goku (His personality, familiarity with anime and Martial Arts skills would make him perfect for the role)
Jackie Chan= Roshi (It's so obvious)

My picks for Krillin and Freeza have already been posted.

Jay Chou, if you don't recognize the name he was Kato from the Green Hornet.

Outside of these guys I haven't really thought about it though.
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Re: Your dream cast for a Dragonball Film

Post by Asura » Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:04 am

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Re: Your dream cast for a Dragonball Film

Post by Asura » Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:07 am

Ahiru77 wrote:
Leonardo DiCaprio - Trunks
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Surprisingly enough, this seems like a really good matchup. The resemblance is uncanny

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Re: Your dream cast for a Dragonball Film

Post by the_abberration » Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:03 am

TRUNKS - Kevin Zegers

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Mr. Satan - Jason Lee

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Krillin -Martin Klebba

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Nappa or Tenshinhan - Tom Hardy

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Re: Your dream cast for a Dragonball Film

Post by Sun-Wukong » Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:09 am

Asura wrote:
Ahiru77 wrote:
Leonardo DiCaprio - Trunks
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Surprisingly enough, this seems like a really good matchup. The resemblance is uncanny
Well, a decade ago maybe. See Inception, Shutter Island or The Departed? Yeah...

The only decision I feel particularly adamant about is Christian Bail as Vegeta. I don't know, it just seems perfect to me.
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Re: Your dream cast for a Dragonball Film

Post by Chuquita » Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:20 am

While it kind of feels only half on topic, I'd love to see a good film company try to make a movie for the saiyajin arc because it's never been done before. All three countries that have made live action DB have picked a pre-Z arc and done the origin story.

We've never had a live action Vegeta.
I have a morbid interest in seeing what they'd come up with for him.
Or maybe I'm just feeling more relaxed with how quietly DBE came and went when it finally opened in theaters. I still don't like Chatku, I feel bad for what happened with James Marsters who genuinely wanted to make a good DB movie, and I do kind of hope that DB live action complete reboot listing on IMDB holds some water.

I'd also love to see a shout-out to TFS in a future live action movie. Maybe something subtle yet identifiable like Piccolo's "DODGE!".
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Re: Your dream cast for a Dragonball Film

Post by Kuhan » Mon Feb 07, 2011 6:22 pm

Leonardo Dicaprio.... as Vegeta.
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Re: Your dream cast for a Dragonball Film

Post by batistabus » Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:51 pm

Jack Black as Yajirobe.

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Re: Your dream cast for a Dragonball Film

Post by Codarik » Mon Feb 07, 2011 11:13 pm

Ever since I was a kid, watching the WWE and DBZ, I always thought these two were very similar, think about it, Kane as Super Buu would be perfect.

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Re: Your dream cast for a Dragonball Film

Post by SonEric84 » Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:42 am

No matter what, this guy needs to play Mr. Satan: Image :P

On a serious note, I could never see live action really working. Although I will admit Leonardo DiCaprio could make a real life Trunks. I always thought in his younger days there was a resemblance.
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Re: Your dream cast for a Dragonball Film

Post by Kuhan » Tue Feb 08, 2011 2:13 am

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[quote="Masako-kun / MasakoX as Goku"]This is worse than that time I was in high school! And all the guys called me Geeko, and I was Piccolo's slave, and I couldn't get Chi-Chi to like me... Oh wow, I hit that rock harder than I thought.[/quote]
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Re: Your dream cast for a Dragonball Film

Post by Hellspawn28 » Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:59 pm

Some great casting choices in this thread. I feel like a reboot should be based off the Saiyajin arc since that's the saga that a lot of people are familiar with and people would pay good money to see Goku and Vegeta fight on the big screen. A budget and a movie done in a tone similar to the Transformers movies and Iron Man 1-2 could work for a DBZ movie.

My dream casting:

Dong-gun Jang (The Warrior's Way) as Goku

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Elisha Cuthbert (Old School, House of Wax, The Girl Next Door) as Bluma

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Ziyi Zhang as Chichi (Already been posted, but I feel like it's the perfect choice)

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John Leguizamo (Romeo + Juliet, Spawn, Ice Age 1-3) as Kuririn (I think his voice and humor would fit well with Kuririn)

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Robin Shou (Mortal Kombat, Beverly Hills Ninja, Death Race) as Yamucha

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Adrien Brody (Petter Jackson's King Kong, Predators) as Tenshinhan

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Danny DeVito (Batman Returns, Erin Brockovich, Big Fish) as Yajirobe

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Idris Elba (Sometimes in April, American Gangster, Thor) as Piccolo

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Ian Anthony Dale (Tekken, Mortal Kombat: Rebirth) as Raditz

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Bill Goldberg as Nappa (Everyone wanted him as Nappa for years, so why not?)

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Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai, Batman Begins, Inception) as Vegeta

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I was unable to find roles for Master Roshi, Kami, and Kid Gohan. I think King Kai and other minor characters should be CG with the Funi voice cast for their voice overs.
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Re: Your dream cast for a Dragonball Film

Post by dbgtFO » Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:09 pm

Hellspawn28 wrote:Ian Anthony Dale (Tekken, Mortal Kombat: Rebirth) as Raditz
http://www.worstpreviews.com/images/hea ... mp1177.jpg
That's not Ian Anthony Dale. Mr. Dale plays Kazuya in the Tekken movie and that guy in the image portrays Bryan Fury.

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Re: Your dream cast for a Dragonball Film

Post by Sun-Wukong » Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:21 pm

This idea came to me last night: Stan Lee as Master Roshi.
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Re: Your dream cast for a Dragonball Film

Post by dbgtFO » Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:30 pm

Sun-Wukong wrote:This idea came to me last night: Stan Lee as Master Roshi.
Ingenious.
Seriously, that would be beyond awesome.

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Re: Your dream cast for a Dragonball Film

Post by Hellspawn28 » Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:32 pm

They should get Tommy Wiseau as Vegeta :lol: :P.
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Re: Your dream cast for a Dragonball Film

Post by Hellspawn28 » Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:30 pm

I still think it would be awesome to see Tommy Wiseau as Vegeta. "Oh hi kakarot" :P.
That's not Ian Anthony Dale. Mr. Dale plays Kazuya in the Tekken movie and that guy in the image portrays Bryan Fury.
Oh thanks for pointing that out. I found the image on Google when I google his name. I thought that was him in the Tekken movie?
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