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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kamikaze on March 15, 2002, 10:28:54 pm
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HOLLYWOOD film studio 20th Century Fox has agreed in principle to buy the right to produce a movie based on Japan's best-selling comic book series, Dragon Ball, officials said.
The US firm has recently concluded negotiations with Akira Toriyama, the creator of the comic series, through major Japanese publisher Shueisha, a Shueisha spokesman said.
"The two sides have reached a basic accord over the right to film a movie using real actors based on Dragon Ball," the spokesman said. "Its price and other details will be discussed from now on."
The Japanese media said that 20th Century Fox planned to spend 13 billion yen ($US101m) on the proposed movie, which is likely to be screened in 2004.
The US movie house is considering asking top directors, including Steven Spielberg, to film the series, the Japanese media said.
Dragon Ball features a boy, named Son Goku who increases his power by collecting magical balls containing dragons to help him and his allies in their fight to protect the earth from evil enemies.
Shueisha published the comic series for some 12 years from 1984. The series ran to 42 volumes, which sold 126 million copies in Japan.
Animated television programmes of the series were broadcast in 36 countries. A cartoon film version has already made it to the big screen, drawing a total of 49 million people and earning 36.2 billion yen at the box-office.
They're going to wreck the comic series :( (which I read) and they also wrote the sumary itself wrong...
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OH MY GOD NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
OH MY GOD NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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:doubt:
That's Hollywood for you...
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OMG - The worst Movie Idea Ever!
Depends on your point of view. It'll sell like mad. Nothing that Akira Toriyama touches ever sells poorly. From the Hollywood POV, that's all that matters.
Dragonball, absolutely bites as an anime, wether you watch the [incredibly butchered beyond hope of recognition] american rendition or the pristine japanese one. It is far better as a manga tiltle, wherein stuff is actually able to happen at a reasonable rate.
Now, what would rock would be a CHRONOTRIGGER movie/anime/etc. :D
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:jaw:
they got all so terably terably wrong, have they seen a single episode !! what the hell,
:wtf: I mean why not make Goku a sasy young black woman living on the streets,
it would be a little closer than that abomonable basturd child of supidity and ignorance,
is it posable that these people are realy that stupid, I couldn't **** somthing up that badly if I tried, they must spend years, no decades practising there moronic art to so perfictly get everything bass-acward every time they go to make a movie of something they know only that it will make them a lot of cash if they make it
I mean ...
it's just not posable for...
I mean ... gahhh,
my head is... :snipe:
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Originally posted by mikhael
Now, what would rock would be a CHRONOTRIGGER movie/anime/etc. :D
ANOTHER CT FAN!!! :eek2:
Dude! Man, wait till Chucker sees you... We love our CT and our CC... ;)
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Originally posted by mikhael
Depends on your point of view. It'll sell like mad. Nothing that Akira Toriyama touches ever sells poorly. From the Hollywood POV, that's all that matters.
Dragonball, absolutely bites as an anime, wether you watch the [incredibly butchered beyond hope of recognition] american rendition or the pristine japanese one. It is far better as a manga tiltle, wherein stuff is actually able to happen at a reasonable rate.
Now, what would rock would be a CHRONOTRIGGER movie/anime/etc. :D
I faintly think that I remember I think I saw an ad of a Chrono Trigger anime (in Japan), but I think I remember I think that I think that I'm thinking I'm probably thinking I'm wrong about that.
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GRAB YOUR HAMMERS AND PITCHFORKS, WE'RE GONNA PAY A VISIT TO 20TH CENTURY FOX
:headz: :snipe:
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:wtf: :snipe: :doubt:
well... this could be interesting... maybe
(CT/CC movie would rock :nod: )
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Originally posted by Stunaep
GRAB YOUR HAMMERS AND PITCHFORKS, WE'RE GONNA PAY A VISIT TO 20TH CENTURY FOX
:headz: :snipe:
I pefer a crowbar :)
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Erm, I thought Toriyama was dead. Fox sucks :snipe :snipe: :snipe: :snipe: :snipe: :snipe: :snipe:
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Mikhael: DBGT wasn't such a success :)
BTW, what are we talking about there actually? DB, or DBZ? Not very clear there... Anyway, I canh hardly imagine someone flaying with yellowhair straight on the head... :lol:
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Then after the sniping...
:headz: :headz: :headz: :headz: :headz: :headz: :headz: :headz:
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Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
OH MY GOD NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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Think of it this way...... if there's a DB film, it'll probably be better than the cartoons.......
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Originally posted by Shrike
Think of it this way...... if there's a DB film, it'll probably be better than the cartoons.......
that wouldn't be too difficult would it? :rolleyes:
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Originally posted by Shrike
Think of it this way...... if there's a DB film, it'll probably be better than the cartoons.......
I think it'll be like that Mario Bros. film - I couldn't even tell what that fungus dude was supposed to be...
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Originally posted by Crazy_Ivan80
that wouldn't be too difficult would it? :rolleyes:
No, not really. ;)
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Heard about it. Hardly suprising. I think the worst movie idea in recent history was actually that one where a stereotypical trash-talking ghettoized black basketball player goes back in time to the middle ages... BLack Knight or summat...;)
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Originally posted by Shrike
No, not really. ;)
I saw an episode of DBZ, the anime, once... to summarise that episode:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!
*LAUNCHES FIREBALL!!!!!!*
Rinse and repeat.
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i got some dbz on music vids, looks like a cool cartoon not sure which version it was ! but setekh's descriptions sounds quite accurate ;7
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Except the 'aaaagh' part lasts two episodes......
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Argh, what else now?
They should be making an Evangelion movie, not that crap. :p
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Don't look at me. I'd redo robotech. :D
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Yeah, yeah, or that. Anything but DBZ. :p
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Why didnt they do something GOOD like Guyver??
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It may sound strange, but DBZ sells.
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Yeah, it's popular.... I dunno why, it just is. :p
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I hate marketing, i hate management and I HATE MONEY
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Funny. I, myself, LOVE money. :p :D
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Me too :D
I'd do Akira as a movie, now THAT would rock :)
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Originally posted by venom2506
Me too :D
I'd do Akira as a movie, now THAT would rock :)
Indeed. :nod:
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Has anyone here NOT heard the "DBZ in a Nutshell" MP3? There's a Flash version too, but IMHO the animation just distracts.
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Originally posted by Shrike
Yeah, it's popular.... I dunno why, it just is. :p
1. Stupid people buy stupid things
2. There are a LOT of stupid people :p
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Heh, I know someone who is obsessed with DBZ, he tried to kick my ass DBZ style. ie. lots of grunting and flying kicks...
He fell down a flight of stairs before I could fight back...
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Originally posted by Alikchi
1. Stupid people buy stupid things
2. There are a LOT of stupid people :p
LOL! :lol:
Oh, so true. :p
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hey :p
DBZ is showing on afternoon, and I have nothing to do when I go back from school so... :p
it's stupid maybe, but at least I have something to do :p (plus I don't want to die dumb, so i want to see it at least once :p )
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Bah, if it was more fast-paced it might actually be even worth watching... but each fight takes four freaking episodes... :p
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Originally posted by Styxx
Bah, if it was more fast-paced it might actually be even worth watching... but each fight takes four freaking episodes... :p
well, I'm in the first episodes, the first bad guy died in two episodes :D
Odd enough, you could have think jhe would have lasted longer, it was songoku's brother. well, songoku dies with him at least, it begins quite diferantly than what you'd have imagined.
bah, the drawings aren't very beautiful :p
"shuts down TV, launches the playa, opens El Hazard episode1 of downloaded the day before"
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Originally posted by Styxx
Yeah, yeah, or that. Anything but DBZ. :p
Sailor Moon? :D
I argee with Venom... Akira would rock big time as a movie :nod:
Or GitS... or Slayers... ;)
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bah, if you make a list of what you'd want as a movie, mine would be endless, ranging from Porco Rosso to Cowboy bebop, not forgetting Princess Mononoke or Jin Roh :)
talking of Porco Rosso, my dream is to make a kind of online Iwar in that universe, with planes you could customize and things like that, in the magnificent backgrounds of the Italian Adriatic :)
Bah, one can dream, no?
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Originally posted by venom2506
Me too :D
I'd do Akira as a movie, now THAT would rock :)
That would be the best thing ever. Akira was my favorite.
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Originally posted by Styxx
Yeah, yeah, or that. Anything but DBZ. :p
I personaly like the orignal DB better, DBZ is just annoying now to me, and I get to watch the orignal DB with episodes Iv never seen before on TV anyway :)
Originally posted by venom2506
bah, if you make a list of what you'd want as a movie, mine would be endless, ranging from Porco Rosso to Cowboy bebop , not forgetting Princess Mononoke or Jin Roh :)
also I kind of thought that the ending kind of sucked, the main character dies and 1 of them leaves, and there isent much to do with whats left anyway ;)
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hmmm, akira as a live-action movie, that'll get the special effects guys movin' like hyperactive children and give the censors headaches. :D
and, shrike, new avatar i see, i like it it sort of speaks for itself doesn't it?
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Originally posted by Dr.Zer0
I personaly like the orignal DB better, DBZ is just annoying now to me, and I get to watch the orignal DB with episodes Iv never seen before on TV anyway :)
also I kind of thought that the ending kind of sucked, the main character dies and 1 of them leaves, and there isent much to do with whats left anyway ;)
CB end was cool, it ended just like the old indian woman in tne first episode said it would.
Yeah, I like DB much more than DBZ. DB was funny, DBZ is dumb.
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Originally posted by Gortef
Sailor Moon? :D
Nooooooooooo!!! :eek:
Originally posted by Venom
Porco Rosso
Red Pig?!? :confused:
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Originally posted by Styxx
Red Pig?!? :confused:
Yup, red pig lol, it's a Moàvie by Myazaki. We don't know why or how, but the hero is cursed and is a pig ( well, he has a pig nose and ears and he's fat and short... grmblllbl... wait a sec...
here is Marco "Porco" Rosso.
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[url]http://membres.lycos.fr/fierrots/ghibli/porco/PR1.jpg[/url])
If you wonder, it's 100% realistic, there's just that pig thing.
It's an awesome piece of art, it's about a mercenary seaplane pilot (well, there's only seaplanes in Porco Rosso anyway), the story happens in South Italy, during the Italian fachism period, before WW2. the air shots are just trully awesome.
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Originally posted by venom2506
Yup, red pig lol, it's a Moàvie by Myazaki. We don't know why or how, but the hero is cursed and is a pig ( well, he has a pig nose and ears and he's fat and short... grmblllbl... wait a sec...
here is Marco "Porco" Rosso.
If you wonder, it's 100% realistic, there's just that pig thing.
It's an awesome piece of art, it's about a mercenary seaplane pilot (well, there's only seaplanes in Porco Rosso anyway), the story happens in South Italy, during the Italian fachism period, before WW2. the air shots are just trully awesome.
But... a red... PIG?!?
Okay, okay, it's animé, so I'll leave it at that. :p
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I like the series Band of Brothers
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Why didnt they do something GOOD like Guyver??
Guyver IS a live action movie....lol....it's a LEET live action movie....
and there's two of them aswell...heh
nah Akira was good enough as an anime....why ruin it by chopping the story to bits and making it live action?
Now Evangelon would be an ELITE live action flick......oh it would be so so so so so so so so SO KCIK ASS!
and to summarize it all up.....i would assume any movie made from a /series/ of shows would be somewhat crappy.....considering you can't cram 20 episodes of anime storyline into an 1.5-2 hr movie......so ANY live action anime port will be a dissapointment.....atleast imo. And aren't we forgetting that The Matrix IS live anime?:confused:
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Originally posted by Dr.Zer0
also I kind of thought that the ending kind of sucked, the main character dies and 1 of them leaves, and there isent much to do with whats left anyway ;)
Well, have you seen the OVA movie? I kind of thought it would be placed after the serie in the time line... I'm not sure though
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Nope, it happens just before the team splits actually (before the episode where you get to see the girl - don't remember her name- father)
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Originally posted by venom2506
Nope, it happens just before the team splits actually (before the episode where you get to see the girl - don't remember her name- father)
really... damn... I thought it would be funnier if it happened after the serie... oh well :doubt: