Dragonball is a 2008 live action film adaptation of the Dragon Ball manga. The film follows Goku, played by Justin Chatwin, and his quest to obtain the mystical Dragonballs before the evil Piccolo, played by James Marsters, does. The film began development in 2002, and is directed by James Wong and produced by Stephen Chow. It is scheduled for worldwide release on August 15, 2008.[1]
[edit] Cast
Justin Chatwin as Goku.[1]
James Marsters as Piccolo: The antagonist of the film.[1]
Jamie Chung as Chi Chi: Goku's love interest.[2]
Emmy Rossum as Bulma: She aids Goku after her father's Dragonball is stolen by Piccolo.[3]
Chow Yun-Fat as Master Roshi: Goku's mentor.[4]
Joon Park as Yamcha.[5]
Eriko Tamura as Mai.[5]
James Kyson Lee auditioned for Yamcha,[6] while Stephen Chow had been interested in casting Zhang Yuqi, whom he worked with on CJ7, as Chi Chi.[7] The pop singer Mario was turned down for a part in the film.[8]
[edit] Production
In March 2002, 20th Century Fox acquired feature film rights to the Dragon Ball franchise.[9] In June 2004, Ben Ramsey, who wrote The Big Hit (199 cool , was paid $500,000 to adapt Dragon Ball Z.[10] In 2007, James Wong and Stephen Chow were announced as director and producer respectively, and the project was retitled Dragonball. Wong rewrote the script.[1] Chow was a Dragon Ball fan, citing its "airy and unstrained story [which] leaves much room for creation", but explained he would only serve as producer because he believes that he should only direct stories he had created.[7] 87Eleven, the stunt performance company that worked on The Matrix and 300, is working on the film.[1] Ariel Shaw, who worked on Wong's entries in the Final Destination series and 300, is visual effects supervisor.[11] Robert MacLachlan, who also worked on Wong's Final Destination films, serves as cinematographer.[12]
Shooting began on December 3, 2007[13] at Mexico City. Locations included the Universidad Tecnológica de México.[14] From January 2, 2008,[14] the crew will shoot at Durango. The crew will move to Estado de México in March for some shots at Nevado de Toluca.[11] Shooting is also scheduled at Los Angeles.[4] In adapting the manga, the futuristic cities were kept, but the anthropomorphic talking animals were dropped.[15] Many of the locations are very Oriental,[16] and there will be some Aztec influence too, particularly from their temples.[17] Many of the female leads and extras will have unique hairstyles, including Rossum, who will wear a blue wig to resemble her manga counterpart. Chatwin, however, will not wear a wig as it was felt his hair already resembled Goku's
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