Dragonball Sequel To Begin Filming 2009?
Second part of Dragonball will be shot in the first quarter of 2009
One of my sources was able to talk to one of the contractors who work with the production of Dragonball in Durango, and this person says that the production has assured him that all three films are set to film in Durango, and that they secured his job for the coming years as a supplier of production … He also commented that if things go well, “Dragonball 2″ could begin filming at the end of the first quarter of 2009, that is, within a year.
This is something that certainly is good news for fans and of course for the people of Durango, as this indicates that the trilogy will be shot in Durango, which makes sense, since it was revealed that some sets of Dragonball would stay in Durango even when filming was complete.
It also depends on how much is made at the box office and the acceptance of fans … But we hope that all goes well.
I did my best at translating. From what I can gather, it seems like they are indeed planning on a sequel with the same cast and crew and locations.
March 25th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Dragonball 2? Hummm, well I’m happy for a Sequel. But , maybe “Dragonball Z”…Uhh, wait. I remember that Z stands for 2. So, yeah, I can see that! Thanks!
March 25th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
I would prefer “Dragonball 2.”
March 25th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
if Raditz is going to be in it do you think he will have the massive hair or just make him normal
March 25th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Raditz could probably get away with being long-haired, not massive-haired. I think the major change would be the Saiyan uniforms. Those things just looked silly.
March 25th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
there could actually be 4 sequals all the wy up to the majin Buu saga, and there could be alot more if it goes up to DB GT like 10 or something. I hope they do go up to GT that would ROK
March 25th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
No, no, no!
Dragonball GT was awful.
March 25th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
All I can say is VEGETA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 25th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
if they decide to film db2 at the end of the second quarter ‘09 based off of responses/feedback from the audience and obviously financiers it would definitely suggest that they would release the movie at the end of 08. building sets and all takes at least a couple months or more (even if they don’t demolish most of the sets from the first movie)
March 25th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Yeah they should make it as real as they can, gt prolly sounds good to you thomas, but in reality that would be a mess on the big screen. as long as they fit the pieces together in between 123 im good. also think they should stop at frieza and not rush all the info through 3 movies
March 25th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Yes, please God no GT; how awful would that look to viewers. Besides It seems like the movie might come out in December, because if it’s the first quarter of 2009 like you said then that would be in March. And they said the movie is suppose to come out in April? How would that work? Nope, if that’s true then it’s going to come out much sooner; but only if what you said is true. We’ll see.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Yea, i agree. GT was really bad, it would look even worse on the big screen.
Anyhow, im really glad to hear that they really are doin sequels, hopefully these movies will do well in the box office and then they can consider makin more movies XD
March 25th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
i know that dragonball 2 will be Dragonball Z because, they showed someone that might be king vegeta. That means that it will be dbz because king vegeta was from dbz. Well, unless they did a history of saiyans movie instead, but that would suck. The Dragonball 2/Z should be about the saiyan and freiza sagas. They should show raditz coming to earth but not let goku die. Then the part where Gohan trains Piccolo. And Then Vegeta and Nappa parts. Then they should skip the ginyu saga. Then go straight to frieza. I dont know if they should make the frieza saga on earth or namek because i think a live action namek would be pretty weird.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
It will be a db2 if this will have succes on box-office.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
gt would be okay if they did it right. they would have to not make goku back into a kid and skip the black star dragonball saga, and go straight to Omega Shenron or baby. NO SUPER 17! they should make ssj4’s but make em cool. ii think we shouldnt worry about gt when db OR dbz hasnt even came out yet.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
all u guys suk if you were real fans you wouldnt care um gonna watch all of them rent it on dvd buy the box set and hang posters in my room no matter how good or bad they are thats wat fans do
March 25th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
have fun?
March 25th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Possible Names For A Sequel?
DragonBall 2
DragonBall Z
DragonBall: The Fight For Mankind
DragonBall: Unlimited
DragonBall: Immortality
Possible Marketing Tagline?
All They Need Is Seven And The Universe Is Theirs!
“The Adventure Begins”
“The Search For Immortality Begins”
March 25th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
YIPPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are so blessed! We get another Dragonball movie right away
But the question on everyone’s mind is what saga will it be Adam?
The Piccolo Jr. saga or The Saiyan saga????
I don’t know?? I hope it’s The Saiyan saga
We already know there working on the KIng Piccolo saga
so which saga is it?
Oh yeah thanks Adam! You rock!!!! YOu and JP are the coolest moderators
March 25th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
FREEZA TYRANT OF THE UNIVERSE!!!-COOL SEQUEL NAME!-SEQUEL-SAIYAN AND FREIZA SAGA!-IF YOU GUYS ARE BIG FANS YOU DONT CONSIDER SAIYAN SAGA AND FREEZA SAGA SEPERATE IT WAS ALL ONE STORY!!!!-VEGETAS HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY FAV!!!-AND HES ALWAYS STRONGER THAN GOKU AT EACH LEVEL BUT GOKU ALWAYS FINDS A WAY TO SURPASS HIM CAUSE OF A NEED NOT A WANT…..OTHERWISE VEGETA WOULD OWN!!!-ANYWAYS , I HOPE THEY RELEASE THEM ONE AFTER ANOTHER LIKE THE SAW MOVIES!!!!-THAT WOULD KEEP US HYPED EVERY YEAR!!!!!-BUT JUST THINK OF ALL THE CHARACTERS YOUD HAVE TO HAVE!!!!!!-OTHERWISE THE STORY WOULD BE LOST!!!-YOU COULD LEAVE THE GINYU FORCE “DAIRY FORCE” AS A MINOR SEEN WHERE THEY GET THERE BUTTS KICKED BY GOKU BEFORE HE COMES TO FREIZA FOR THE FINAL FIGHT?-THEY BETTER NOT CHANGE THE SAIYAN ARM THAT ROCKED!!!! AND WOULD BE EASY TO RECREATE!!!!-FOX DONT DARE CHANGE A THING ABOUT VEGETA!!!!-SHOOT KEEP RADITZ HAIR CRAZY AND HUGE THEY CAN DO IT WITH HAIR PIECES AND CGI!!!!-NAPPA IS EASY!!!-VEGETAS HAIR CAN EASILY BE DONE WITH JUST GROWING IT OUT AND SOME HAIR WAX.-YES!!!!!!!!-LETS HOPE FOR A ONE AFTER ANOTHER YEARLY SHOT LIKE LORD OF THE RINGS!!!!!!!!-NO BOO SAGA THAT WAS GAY WITH HIM TURNING PEOPLE INTO CHOCOLATE AND NO GT THATS JUST TOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-2ND MOVIE SAIYAN/FREIZA,3RD MOVIE ANDROID/CELL -END WITH GOHAN DEFEATING CELL WITH A FAST FOWARD TO THE FUTURE OF GOHAN AS A YOUNG ADULT IN COLLEGE REMEMBERING HOW IS DAD SHOWED HIM TO SAVE THE WORLD………….THE END-AWESOME, RIGHT?
March 25th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Lay off the cocaine.
March 25th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
I don’t think that it’ll be the Piccolo Jr. saga. Personally, I think two movies, each with a Piccolo in it as the villain, would be pretty damn boring. They’ll probably just skip to the Saiyan saga, then Namek/Freeza saga. I’m also thinking that maybe there will be no Piccolo Jr. Maybe it’ll just be Piccolo all the way through. Cause multicellular organisms reproducint asexually like Nameks do…there would be no species. They can’t all look alike because there’s no real gene pool. Yes, I’m thinking way too much, but Fox has to consider this kind of stuff, cause that weirdness may turn a lot of people off to it. Which brings me to my next topic…female Nameks @_@ whoa. That would be interesting. ‘Course they might just say, “fuck it” and keep everything the way it was.
March 25th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
your an ass!-were all friends on here if you wanna leave comments like that take a hike.
March 25th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
lol ha, ha at Adam
Wow!!!! That was funny
It was also a rush reading it too…
Robert is actually right though
I totally hated that turning into the chocolate thing!!
March 25th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Hey Robert Adam was just playing dude!!!!
He does that to everyone!!!! Please, DOn’t take it personal!
You rock dude
Your a true Dragonball fan if you know all that stuff
Anyways, back to the post
They should Defiantly start with The Saiyan saga
I wouldn’t mind seeing a Saiyan/Frieza movie, but I don’t know if that’s going to happen. It would be to long!
March 25th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
lol ha, ha, ha, ha Im sorry, but im still laughing at the “Take a hike part”…. You got to admit that was funny as a mug considering it’s his website!!!!
March 25th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Who needs a GT movie, when we have the first one?
March 25th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Robert,
I didn’t read your comment I was referring to it being in all caps. It wasn’t an insult.
March 25th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
thanks corey!-also on the voice blog-whos the one that makes it sound like a gay chatroom -lol!!!!-whos voice is that?-
-anyways guys this is going pretty good!!!-you think piccolo will have the stretchy arm fighting techniques?-that will rock if so!!!!-anyways adam love the good job you and jp are doing!!!-keep it up!!!-lets get some real pic to make us go ape shit!!!!
ive been a fan sinse my cousin in 89 brought over a bootleg from japan!!!!-even bigger fan when it came to dbz in the 90’s!!!-i ahve my entire office decked with anime and dbz statues!!!- i hope this movie does it pride!-i am a graphic artist at a big company and dragon ball is art to me story and akiras imagination…..thanks guys for the site and its fun to read everyones comments-even if your an ass!
March 25th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Vegeta, Vegeta…VEGETA! Yay
March 25th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
I agree with robert on the whole turnin ppl into chocolate, that would be really lame, they should just cut that out if they plan on doin a movie with buu.
March 25th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
it totally should be called dragonball Z. not 2, that’s boring and unoriginal. i can already see chatwin doing kai ken X 3. haha
March 25th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
VEGETA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 25th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
WHOAAAAAAAAAAAA THis is good news everyone!!!! This means Chatwin is going to stick with the film. Plus it also means that Chatwin will be in really good shape for the sequel. Wow! This is what im talking about
Im glad that Chatwin is Goku, because we get to see him grow through out the series just like we saw Goku in the show grow up. I really hope they start on the Saiyan saga next…. Wait a minute Vegeta
Vegetaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa yes!!
We get to see the Prince of all saiyans if this is true
Adam you must find out if this official by Fox
March 25th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Robert I cant read what you are saying, it gives me a headache. Can you please stop using caps and use paragraphs at least.
The movie will probably will released on December of this year and depending on how well it does in the box office, then they will decide whether to make the sequels or not.
In my opinion, DB 2 would be the Saiyan Saga and DB 3 the Frieza saga.
March 25th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Oh, and I loved the Buu saga. He doesnt really have to turn people into chocolate in a real live action movie, but Majin Buu would look awesome in a real live action movie. And yeah, lay off the cocaine please.
March 25th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
and I really hope that they don’t be lazy and call it Dragonball 2
that is so lame. Plus it doesn’t sound right!!
Just call it
Dragonball Z: The Saiyan saga
or
Dragonball Z: The fight for mankind
March 25th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Ops, I meant to say: “The movie will probably BE released on December…”
And it would be better if they only keep the Dragonball title without the “Z”. It wouldnt sound good if they are making sequels.
They should call it: “DragonBall 2: xxxxxxxxx” (replace the X´s with something like The Saiyan Saga or The Fight for mankind or something like that).
March 25th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
you cant spread out the movies like that jose’!!!-everyone wants to see trunks!!!!!-especially japan!!!-thats one of there fav characters over there!!!-also,all us vegeta freaks cant miss him turning super saiyan.-come on who doesnt want to see gohan go super saiyan 2 and be covered in a lightening aura and own cell???hell yeah!-not too mention japans gonna want some mr.satan aka hercule action too!-he was so big and comedic over seas that akira was actually going to just do a spin off of him–did you guys know that?-check out my descriptions on chow yun fat comments about my special effects ideas its really cool guys!-fox should read that one!!!!-if you guys like it leave some insights maybe fox will listen up if we have some good ideas?
March 25th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Fox is not going to push Dragonball in December
They still haven’t shown us a teasor yet!!!! December is still way to early.
Plus why would they make it come in December????
Think about it ya!
If Fox was going to put Dragonball in December
they would have shown a teasor during the Superbowl or they would of given us a poster or something by now. Spiderman 3 showed there fans a poster of the black suited spidey a year before it came out. Dragonball is a big budget movie. I think April 2009 is an excellent time to put it out…. The fan base is going to be huge by that time. Probally as huge as Star wars episode I. Plus it’s enough time to make the special effects look amazing!
March 25th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
cant wait for the next mooooveh!!!!
March 25th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Corey,
If they are indeed planning a sequel for early next year, there’s no way they’d start filming before the first movie is released. That makes no sense.
December actually is reasonable, if movieland is correct. They aren’t going to film a sequel if it flops horribly.
March 25th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
they filmed all the lotr movies at once………it saves time and money.-we have any new info on entire cast and characters?-lets get some gushy details huh?-i bet james is down and proud to spill the beans on things!-we need someone to write him
March 26th, 2008 at 12:23 am
DAMMIT!!! Sorry for that outburst guys, but Youtube just canceled my account permantly for copyright infrigment. A word of advice to the users of youtube, please don’t upload any pornography whatsoever or movies that haven’t been released on dvd yet. That’s if you treasure your account dearly…
March 26th, 2008 at 12:33 am
We haven’t even seen a teaser or an official picture of the main characters from the first movie and people are already getting hyped on the rumor of a sequel.
Funny, but absurd.
March 26th, 2008 at 12:39 am
I agree with Adam about everything except for 2 things
The Dragonball date
and should Oozaru be in Dragonball?
Adam let’s have a bet ok!! No backing out dude
I bet you that Dragonball will be out April 2009 and not December 2008.
If I win you have to admit I was right!!
If I loose then I’ll shut up about Oozaru being in the movie
Deal????
Until Fox confirms the date
Im still gonna say Oozaru would be alwsome to see in a live action Dragonball!!
March 26th, 2008 at 12:57 am
GMAN,
There was talk of a trilogy before the movie even started filming. This just supports that.
Corey,
Uh, sure.
March 26th, 2008 at 1:19 am
first off, i’m pumped about the sequels because it will give everyone a chance to bulk up for their roles
i’d imagine that the sequel will cover the saiyan saga, ending with vegeta’s defeat and mentioning something about freiza. I hope they keep everything with goku dying and training with king kai and gohan’s training with piccolo.
i’ll bet the third one covers the freiza saga, ending with goku becoming a super saiyan and killing freiza. That would be awesome and a good place to end the trilogy.
and for those who think they should make a GT movie, that would be an awful idea as GT already sucked as a cartoon.
March 26th, 2008 at 1:42 am
Hi everyone, long time reader first time poster. (sorry couldn’t help it) Has anyone seen the GI Joe add on yahoo.com. They have not even finished shooting it yet but there is already some cool photos of snake eyes (http://www.accesshollywood.com/gallery/1338/gi-joe/?__source=omg). And what have we got from DB, nothing even close, seriously we neeed something cool from them.
March 26th, 2008 at 2:07 am
I think the most epic way they could do this “trilogy” is to end it at the Frieza Saga and actually have Goku die with the planet Namek like Toriyama originally planned it. But I think that it would be completely irrelevant for them to remove Goku’s death in by Piccolo in the Raditz fight, because without that he would not have learned the Spirit Bomb and Kaioken, which were incredibly important attacks for both the Vegeta and Frieza sagas. Oh, and as for a GT movie, hell the eff no!!
March 26th, 2008 at 2:39 am
well I’m spansih speaker and i read this new on the original BLOg
let me say something that perhaps in the translation is lost
1th Movieland is ruled by Joker: a Durango native one and ALL THE GOD RUMORS about durango city become official A NEW in his blog
let read between lines about his information
someone tell him that a producer say to someone else of the crew that !”IF ALL THE THING GO WELL the SECOND PART will be recoded in the same place with the same mexican crew”
its not a FACT that th2 part is planed to film immediately… but the same contractors will have work if the 1prt have success (that i hope dont ) and the big bosses of FOx earn a lot of money to make the second one
March 26th, 2008 at 2:42 am
BGTA,
I clearly stated that…?
March 26th, 2008 at 2:53 am
Whoaaaa what are you talking about CJB????
I don’t know about you, but I want to see the Trunks, the androids, and cell. The Cell saga has to be be the 2nd best saga in Dragonball history!!
The Top 5 sagas
1. Frieza saga
2. The Cell saga
3. The Android saga
4. The Ginyu saga
5. The Saiyan saga
Buu doesn’t exist to me
It felt like Akira got lazy at the buu saga
They start rushing the drawing and the great moments we use to share together….
March 26th, 2008 at 2:55 am
By the way can someone translate what Bgta said????
March 26th, 2008 at 4:08 am
i think piccolo and piccolo jr are the same in this one
and i think that gohan will be born in this movie, maybe introducing the saiyans leaving the ending open for the second one
whether its called db2 or dbz, the sequel, if done (god i hope it will) will be about dragonball z
March 26th, 2008 at 4:46 am
yep corey you rock!!!!-these people arent fans if they dont want to see the cell/android saga!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-its the greatest story of them all!!!!-it ties all db and dbz together!!!!-all the characters play major roles and so many turning points and shocks with twists and turns!-goku leaves the world saving job and hands over the task to gohan!-vegeta ascends to super saiyan and shocks everyone.-come on trunks vegeta and bulma hookup,etc…..cell the greatest villian ever!!!-hes all the villians and heroes in one!-you cant get a better ending to a trilogy than that?
March 26th, 2008 at 5:19 am
robert g, i agree that the cell saga is awesome (debatebly the best) and would definently like to see the saga in live action, but i feel that if everything from the arrival of raditz to the defeat of frieza is put into one movie, everything would seem like it was crammed in. There would be no room for character development such as vegeta going from a villan to one of the good guys and piccolo finally finding a friend in gohan. i’d like to see cell and the androids on the big screen, but not if it means sacrificing the crucial moments in the saiyan and frieza sagas. who knows, if the trilogy goes well they’ll be bound to make more if they can keep bringing in money. hell, they might as well do 5 films and cover buu too… but to do DBGT would be stretching it a little too far.
March 26th, 2008 at 5:41 am
Let’s just do the 3 movies and end it the way it was meant to end - with Goku dying with Namek’s explosion, ultimately saving the universe from the biggest threat ever: Freeza.
March 26th, 2008 at 5:59 am
how do you guys even know its going to be dragonball z it could just be a seaqel to dragon ball
March 26th, 2008 at 6:05 am
Nooooooooooo, i like the cell saga and android 17 and the whole.. well.. i like it in the anime.. but how will it be in a movie.. I gotta think this thru for a bit… i mean I dun want Goku to die and Freeza.. Freeza was gay, in the funi dub, he sounded like got turned on whenever he saw Goku.
But wait, maybe if they stick to the way it was meant to be like in the jap.. then maybe we still have hope for these movies, even if they are not EXACTLY like the anime.. as long as we’re gettin somethin outta these ppl, than thats all that really matters!!! XD
March 26th, 2008 at 6:06 am
and dragon ball gt was not horibal just cunfusing some times all in all it whould be cul to wach ss4 goku in action with some ba dudes
March 26th, 2008 at 7:13 am
Adam im stunned dude!! I can’t believe you said that
I don’t know about you, but I think there should be at least 6 or 7 Dragonball movies.
Star wars has 6 cinematic films all together
Harry potter has so much I lost track and none of them compare to the Dragonball Z story line. Name a series that you know all the villians name?
That’s why they should end Dragonball at the Cell saga.
I know in my heart that Fox will only make 3 movies for us, but You know us fans will try to convince them to end Dragonball at the Cell saga…. I would love to see them end Dragonball at the Cell saga. I was so disapointed when I saw Star wars episode III, because I wanted to see Darth Vader fight.
Star wars ep III was still an amazing movie:), but they made it seem like Darth Vader was going to be in the entire movie. I feel the same way about Dragonball!!!! I want to see Goku do more stuff with his Super Saiyan power, Not just fight Frieza!!
I want to see him fight those androids!! Plus I want to see Gohan turn ssj2 and Vegeta live out his dream to become ssj. Don’t you??
My name is Corey Wilson and im running for president
(well not really I just want to see “Dragonball” come out in theaters)
March 26th, 2008 at 7:23 am
Adam,
I’m fully aware of the trilogy rumors, but even so we have yet to see the first film. As far as a sequel goes there isn’t anything to get too excited about. We don’t even know we want a sequel at this point.
March 26th, 2008 at 7:29 am
well if they are expected to start filming for a sequel in the first quarter of ‘09 then i have no doubts dragonball 1 is coming out this year. December hopefully
March 26th, 2008 at 7:35 am
I want a sequal
!!!!
That’s why Oozaru is important Adam!!
They have to introduce Oozaru or at least mention him in Dragonball, because Vegeta needs to transform into Oozaru in order to give Goku competition. Plus Oozaru plays an important role in Dragonball!! Remember that’s how they took over planets?
March 26th, 2008 at 10:18 am
My friend in mexico says that the DB sets will stay there. There is a notice in the press that they will continue filming another movie in Durango. The sequel! My friend went to Durango for seeing with hiw own eyes the magnitude of the sets. He had the chance to see the sets and he says they were awsome. ANd the landscapes look exactly like the real battlefields of DB.
I think that the movie will be perfect, now a days the special effects are incredible, mostly all is done with computers. My friend said that there were a lot of fans nearby the filming area, and all had the same question: Will there be a sequel? ALl the working dudes said, ANSWER: Will see will see, dont worry you wont be disapointed.
March 26th, 2008 at 10:28 am
“yep corey you rock!!!!-these people arent fans if they dont want to see the cell/android saga!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-its the greatest story of them all!!!!-it ties all db and dbz together!!!!-all the characters play major roles and so many turning points and shocks with twists and turns!-goku leaves the world saving job and hands over the task to gohan!-vegeta ascends to super saiyan and shocks everyone.-come on trunks vegeta and bulma hookup,etc…..cell the greatest villian ever!!!-hes all the villians and heroes in one!-you cant get a better ending to a trilogy than that?”
Hahaha! You obviously have no clue what Dragonball was initially all about. Although those fillers were very entertaining, I do not think that it can be compromised, with the whole Dragonball mythos. Even though he is pretty loose, Akira Toriyama would have dark anger, deep inside his soul, hehe.
March 26th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Hey Adam
dude you got to check this out!!!!!!
Fox Legal requested to remove the Dragonball set picture
http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/03/24/dragonball-set-photo/
March 26th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Corey, if they actually make a Cell movie, they will indeed make a Buu one. Just because YOU didnt like the Buu saga it doesnt mean many of us didnt and it also doesnt mean that Fox will end it at Cell. If they are making a trilogy, the second part must be the Saiyan saga and the third part Frieza saga.
By the way, there wont be oozarus. They are making this movie “realistic”, so forget about oozarus. Forget about them man. They would look shitty and ridiculous in a live action movie. Sorry if im being hard, but you keep bringing on the oozaru transformation and it might have looked ok in the anime, but not in a real live action movie.
Another thing, I hope they get rid of the “die-and-then-come-back-to-life” thing that was a bit annoying. DB and DBZ are the best but that thing annoyed me a bit, because deaths didnt mean too much if they could revive them all the time. So lets hope Goku only dies in the end of the third movie in his fight with Frieza, now that would be epic.
March 26th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
goku lives in freeza saga why would he be killed-thats stupid!!!!!-he flys away in ginu pod to to yardrich and learns instant transmission!—-a real db fan would know that?-if they end 3rd movie with freeza saga he could instant transmission back to earth and tell his whole story and they could all applaud him and hug him etc….the end-but cell saga is the greatest hands down!!!!!!!!!
March 26th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
hey guys i forgot to put g in my name incase you guys were wanting to comment oon any thing i wrote?-im robert and robert g-vegeta rules-peace!-also i wann see bardock flash backs atleast-that would rock!
March 26th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
My God… robert… did you know Akira originally wanted to end Dragonball Z at the end of the Frieza saga with Goku dying with Frieza at the end?. “A real db fan would know that”. That would be epic. The legendary Super Saiyan dying while avenging his race by killing the villain who destroyed the Saiyans. Of course the Cell and Buu sagas are great too, but in a live action trilogy, that would be a great ending (having Goku die at the end of the third fighting Frieza).
Why make it a “all happy- lets hug and smile” end? Stupid hollywood non epic endings.
March 26th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
YOUR RIGHT ON ALL ASPECTS JOSE!-BUT THEY NEVER KILLED HIM THEN IS WHAT I WAS SAYING!-YOU KNOW THEY ARE GONNA MAKE IT A HOLLYWOOD HAPPY ENDING TO GET TO MUCH UP HOPE UP FOR SOMETHING BIG AND EPIC…….LETS GET SOME PICS OR INFO ON MORE OF THE CAST-AN PLEASE DONT GET ANYTHING NEW ON FREAKEN TITO!!!!-WHO THE HECK IS THAT AND WHO CARES ANYTHING ABOUT THIS CHARACTER………?-IM JUST REALLY WANTING TO SEE THESE DEMON ASSASIN PICS!!!!-PLEASE GET SOME REAL INFO ON THIS!
March 26th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Oh come on Tito is cool………
just kidding lol.
March 26th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
think king kong they can do oozarus! and how insane would it be to see it. any thing is possible in hollywood if they can make harry potter sincity 300 superman ect they can do a good job on dragonball
March 26th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Xavi,
if you have a friend in durango see if they can send up some good set pics if it would be possible! see what you can do!
March 26th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
if they do well on the 3 movies then im sure another 3 will be made that being trunks androids / cell / then buu
My thoughts on the red ribbon army for the android movie they could do a flash back to goku as a young boy and the full moon is out when a bunch of RRA troops come across him and he takes out the RRA in one go, then dr.gero will see its just a boy with enough power to take out an army so he builds androids to defeat him and has tracking bugs fallow him through out the first 2 movies (misses the 3rd cause they are on namik) trunks comes kills mecha freeza king cold troops and warns the gang about the androids they train the androids come, kill off 19 and 20 insane fights between 17-18-16 ending it with cell, cell does his thing blah blah gohan kills him YAY, then all the buu crap in one movie done DB movies over fans get what they want no GT! gt was fun at times but ya know… lol
March 26th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Everyone:
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March 26th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
I wonder why Goku used Ginyu’s pod to go back to Earth instead of Instant Transmission?
March 26th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Kame,
Goku learned the “instant transmission” after Namek exploded..
March 26th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Kame Said:
“I wonder why Goku used Ginyu’s pod to go back to Earth instead of Instant Transmission?”
Goku escaped the namek explosion on one of Ginyu´s pod and since he didnt know how to use it, he just started it on and couldnt control it, so he just escaped the explosion but couldnt control the pod, thats why his pod crashed on that planet where he was then taught instant transmition.
March 26th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
i was hoping for some new info by now slackers!-no pics nothing……….blah
March 26th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
LOL, Kame that’s funny man, like zanny and JoseMP said he didn’t even learn how to do the instant transmission til after Namek exploded…dude, where were you when that happened?
March 26th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
hopefully they put saiyan saga and freiza into one movie so that they can do cell saga in the third
March 26th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
“By the way, there wont be oozarus. They are making this movie “realistic”, so forget about oozarus. Forget about them man. They would look shitty and ridiculous in a live action movie. Sorry if im being hard, but you keep bringing on the oozaru transformation and it might have looked ok in the anime, but not in a real live action movie.”
Not to mention that their budget isn’t quite THAT big. I mean, they have to work on a CGI dragon, and all of the fighting effects, too . . . adding a giant monkey to the mix would be overkill, and would most likely turn out looking half-assed because they don’t have the time/money to work on it correctly. I mean, it would never look like King Kong, which they spent $200,000,000 + on . . .
Besdies which, you can tell the “Goku is an alien” story just as well without any giant monkeys running around. The oozaru doesn’t make too many plot important appearances, anyway. They could — and probably will — easily write around it.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Oh wait I didn’t read that right, guys we made a mistake and Kame was just wondering why he didn’t use it to go back when Frieza planned to destroy the Earth. It was because he had sensed a stronger force than Frieza and his father, and knew that guy could take down Frieza by himself. My bad Kame, I just misunderstood what you were asking lol.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
“Hey Adam
dude you got to check this out!!!!!!
Fox Legal requested to remove the Dragonball set picture
http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/03/24/dragonball-set-photo/”
So now Fox wants to take away what little crap we have about this movie they suck… Who wishes paramount pictures would have done this movie instead of fox.
March 26th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Fox is a bitch, we want more and dammit if they don’t give us something soon I’m gonna boycott! Adam, don’t let them take away your pics dude, I hope they don’t have the right to do that.
March 26th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Ok, about the GT comment… NO. FUCK NO. If you guys didn’t know, Akira Toriyama had NOTHING to do with GT. That’s why it sucked so bad. Other people put ideas into it and screwed it up.
Wanna know why GT didn’t last so long? Cause the Japanese HATED IT!
March 26th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Yeah!! Adam please don’t let them take away your pic. That Volcano setting looks Alwsome. Can Fox really ask you to take your picture off Adam?
March 26th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
I don’t know.
March 27th, 2008 at 2:05 am
Sean you been on Dbthemovie.com almost as long as me and you still haven’t register yet lol!!!! Dude you need to register!
That’s the cool thing about this site you don’t have to wait for your comment to be approved if your registered. It’s easy and free dude
and it only takes 3 minutes of ur time.
March 27th, 2008 at 2:13 am
You know what would be cool!!!! Dragonball smileys
Im sick of the same ol’ smiley faces
Hey Adam we want some Dragonball smileys!!!!
<<<<Boring
If that’s ok with you? Dude there’s plenty of sites that have them!!
Instead of a regular smiley face you should have a Goku smiley face. Am I asking for to much? lol
we want Goku smiley faces
We want King Piccolo smileys too
March 27th, 2008 at 2:13 am
Why, thank you Corey, just because you wanted me to register, I did lol. Just one more Dragonball website I’m a member of. By the way Adam, you’ve done a great job keeping us updated with the movie, keep up the good work. Cheers.
March 27th, 2008 at 2:16 am
Hey, where do I get a smiley face at lol? No seriously, I don’t see them on the page. Help please….
March 27th, 2008 at 2:21 am
You have to manually type them
: ) is
; ) is
I don’t know how to change them but I’ll try…
March 27th, 2008 at 2:37 am
YEssssssssss!!!!! We gonna get some Dragonball smileys ya
Thanks Adam!
Let me test it out, to see if we got it yet
Nope not yet
March 27th, 2008 at 3:33 am
“it totally should be called dragonball Z. not 2, that’s boring and unoriginal. i can already see chatwin doing kai ken X 3. haha”
lol, Chatwin would probably get skinnier when doing Kaio-ken X3.
Uggh, but seriously I don’t want to even think about that. Get someone who’d actually look cool doing it.
I bet if they do this, Vegeta will be played by Chris Crocker and Nappa will be played by Zaquisha Efron.
March 27th, 2008 at 3:38 am
its freedom of the press to show pictures and express thoughts they cant tell you to take nothing down!!!-so f them!
March 27th, 2008 at 3:50 am
Wow, that’s confusing lol
March 28th, 2008 at 1:57 am
cant wait for a sequel because i know Dragonball is gunna do awesome…but already??? we havent even got the first one yet and fox is being stupid and keeps delaying it…saying its now April 8th 2009…..at this rate ill be 30 before this series is done…but when they do release a sequel call it Dragonball Z…since it’s what comes after King Piccolo..only makes sense
March 28th, 2008 at 3:18 am
First of all, I think it’s way too early to get excited about any possible sequels because we haven’t even seen or heard anything about the first one yet outside of the cast members, locations, and possible plot synopsis. No pictures or even a trailer to go on yet. For all we know, the first movie could bomb and then Fox won’t even make the sequels all together. Personally, although, I consider myself a dragon ball z fan, I’d be lying if I didn’t say i was a bit skeptical about the movie. After all lets face it, there’s a lot of cartoons and comic book characters (or mangas in Japan) that wouldn’t translate well into a film at least without major changes. My biggest fear is that Dragon Ball Z might be one of them that might not make the translation well. Sure they can change a lot to it to make it realistic, but a lot of that depends on the writers and directors interpretation of the mythology. Look at the first two Batman movies with Michael Keaton, they were pretty good, then Joel Schumacher re envisioned it back to the campy version again; making it turn into a piece of crap during “Batman and Robin.” Or the first two Terminator movies, they were both great and epic but when James Cameron left the series, the 3rd movie came out rather weak and unrealistic because the new director chose a lighter tone for the series. A lot of this movie’s success will hinge on the directors and writers interpretation of the mythology and how they choose to handle the changes without totally undermining the basis of which these characters are.
Obviously, they can’t just take the Dragon Ball movie straight up without changing it in a way because if they did it straight out of the manga or anime, it would be a bomb because there’s a lot of things that wouldn’t translate well. Look at Popeye for instance, when they made that into a movie, they took it straight out of the comic strip and turned it into a movie without changing the character. You want to know why it bombed? Simply put, if you honestly stopped to analyze his cartoons, generically about 98 percent of his episodes always have him doing the same thing; beating up Bluto after eating his spinach and winning Olive Oyle’s heart in various 5 min cartoons. Plus, you could hardly understand what he was saying, so when they made the movie, it bombed because it came out campy and stupid. I know by now, some of you will criticize saying what does this have to do with Dragon Ball. However, I’m about to get to that now. Changes will have to made to storyline obviously if they want the Dragon Ball movie to be realistic. For one, if you they just simply put Master Roshi in there like he was in the DBZ: Broly the Legendary Super Saiyan movie, where it was all intense where the Z fighters were battling Broly, and Master Roshi shows up out of nowhere and makes funny faces for no reason, then that wouldn’t fair well for non DBZ fans watching the movie. Turning most movie goers off. The talking cat guardian, would have to go, and sadly the Oozaru transformation wouldn’t make a lot of sense in a live action version of DB. Because for one, if your a non fan of the anime or manga, the first question you’d ask is if Goku could transform into that, why didn’t he do that in the first place and beat the crap out of Piccolo. I’m sorry, but its the truth. Plus, I don’t know who said this earlier, but I agree with whoever said they can tell about Goku’s Saiyan heritage without it anyway. Plus, the whole coming back to life thing wouldn’t translate as well because it would make the fights in the live action less meaningful. People would be like why should the Z fighters care if a few innocent people die here and there or even themselves, they can just wish them back with the Dragon Balls. In order to make this a successful movie, Fox will have to give most movie goers, even the non fans, a reason to root for these characters plight, so the constant bringing back to life bit although sure works in the anime, it would come off rather stupid and cheesy.
Look at the Superman movie series with Christopher Reeves, did you guys know that Lex Luthor’s original origin was that he grew up in Smallville with Superman, but due to a chemical explosion he ends up bald, so he becomes a super villain. You heard me, he becomes bald, so now he wants to be a villain. Can you imagine what would’ve happened if they had used that origin in the movie? It probably would’ve sucked because its a stupid origin to begin with. Therefore, Warner Brothers, had to change that for the live action Superman movie. Just like Fox will undoubtedly have to make some major changes to the DB mythology a bit in order for it to work on the big screen.
I know most of you have your ideas of what DBZ storylines you want to see on the big screen like the Majin Buu saga, Andriod/Cell saga, frieza saga, saiyan saga, but in order for them to work, they would need some changes to them to make them more realistic. I’m sorry to say that, but it’s the truth. If they took any of them straight out of the Manga, it would probably bomb. Personally, I hope whoever the writers and directors are, that they did do some research on the material, and hopefully do a movie that will at least stay true to the characters. They can get away with tweaking the story to make it more realistic, but as long as they don’t undermine its’ mythology completely, it should be good.
In conclusion to this, I just say lets just wait until Fox releases a damn trailer and a official plot synopsis before we start getting carried away here.
March 28th, 2008 at 6:03 am
This movie will not bomb at the box-office, there’s no chance in hell of that happening. Why is everybody saying it could? How many DragonBall fans in America do we have? or in the world for that matter? There’s at least 5 to 15 million fans in the U.S. alone, not to mention there’s approximately 130 million people living in Japan right now. How many of them do you think will go and watch Dragonball in theaters? I might be over-dramatic here but I’d have to say 1/4 to 1/2 of their population would pay to watch it. And the average ticket ranges around 7-10 dollars in the America and Japan. Multiply that by the number of fans…not to mention the non-db fans who are also going to wanna watch it. Now tell me if it won’t be successful.
March 28th, 2008 at 6:27 am
Welll… I dont know if the world ( read non db/dbz etc fans ) are ready for a db movie. but hey Ill watch it and so should most of the db etc fans. if it bombs and *editited out uncouth comments about movie critics*
It doesnt matter. Ill watch it. see some of you in the movie theater?
shut up steven. popeye was a great movie.
movie critics suck.
March 28th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
thank you cedric for telling me shut up. lol. all i was saying is that in order for dragon ball to be a hit in the theatres, they’re going to need to make it appeal to not only fans of the show, but non fans too to incorporate them. Hell, look at the Spider-Man, Batman, and Superman franchises for instance. Did you know that statiscally, most of their sales came from non fans of the comics. Or should i say mostly people that were unfamiliar with the characters but the movies were made to appeal to people so non fans could watch it as well as the fans. All I was saying, is that in order for Dragon Ball to become a hit, it’ll have to be able to attract more than just its normal fan base to be successful. Don’t believe me, then look at the last Star Trek movie, and see how well that fared when it made its’ last movie to mainly appeal to its’ own fans. That movie bombed, and Star Trek has an even great fan base than Dragon Ball, Cedric. So trust me, it is possible it could bomb, so thats why I said this movie will hinge on how the writers and directors choose to make this movie appeal to satisfy fans like us and incorporate new fans as well.
March 28th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
ok…well…just to shed some light on DB:GT it would be the last movie, so im pretty sure it wouldnt matter if it sucked balls….cause it would be the LAST movie….but yea the idiots who worked on DB:GT anime really made the dragonball legend look horrible….thankfully i just wanted to see the last episode….if ya ever noticed, DB:GT was nothing but a BIG what if.
March 31st, 2008 at 9:49 pm
I don’t know…granted you can never cover epic battles and long story lines in DBZ on the big screen. I think with the complexity of some situations and fights, you could draw out the sagas a bit into more movies and still keep them exciting.
Movie 1: Is obviously Piccolo, if rumors are true it was already leaked such things about goku being married at the end of the movie and piccolo giving birth to his jr self. I’d imagine by the 2nd movie it is years later and gohan is like 5 already when Raditz shows up
Movie 2: Radits shows up and Goku/Piccolo defeat him with gokus death in the process. A year quickly passes before Vegita shows up during which time they gathered dragonballs to revive Goku and save the day. Epic goku vs vegita fight at the end. Piccolo would die too so they have to go to namek.
Movie 3: Goku is injured and everyone uses piccolos ship to run off to namek right away. Later to find out Vegita is on namek, Goku hops a newly crafted ship by bulmas company and rushes off to namek with his handful of sensu beans. This movie might feel drawn out, but durin it would be alot of vegita killing frieza’s little no name warriors. Gohan, Bulma and others hunting down dragonballs while meeting nameks. The end would be Goku defeating the ginyu force and cliffhanging into movie 4.
Movie 4: I was thinking movie 3 and 4 could arrange things differently. Perhaps Frieza was not even on Namek yet but his henchmen were doin prep work. We could start with word that frieza is arriving soon. Goku being hurt from the ginyu fight could need to rest in that chamber while everyone else starts dealing with frieza. This movie would be mostly fighting as everyone gets a crack at frieza through out his many forms.
But would a movie almost all dedicated to frieza be too boring? Just like someone else pointed out how much story is missing if they ever touch androids and cell. A lot happend on namek, too much for them to cover in 1 movie. Even from the moment Goku wakes up to fight Frieza, alot happens in the span of him watching vegita die, starting the fight, the spirit bomb, krillin dieing (kinda important, no krillin is gonna be hard to replace this) causing him to go super saiyan. Mid fight the wish to revive everyone on namek and send them to earth followed by Goku defeating Frieza and the planet blowing.
I think the true DBZ fans would enjoy a 2 hour movie with constant fighting against frieza. We are talking about a cartoon that 7 minutes of Namek blowing up lasted over an hour of viewing time. You can watch the Goku vs Frieza fight in an edited full fight only, no fillers and it is 3 hours of video time. Nuff said for now.
March 31st, 2008 at 10:00 pm
They’re only planning 3 movies, not 4. Namek saga doesn’t need to be two movies.
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:43 pm
i agree with adam here. the namek saga and frieza saga were part of the same saga anyway. plus, the frieza saga by itself isn’t a story, its just a giant slugfest with goku and frieza, so it would need the namek saga to add a bit of a story to it.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:27 am
I have a feeling Fox is making this decision that is no different to burning money because they only read the comments here and not the ones in Japan and other Asian countries
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:48 am
DUUUUUUUUUUDDDDDDDEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i Cant WAIT for VEGETA!!!!!!!! and GT sucks seriously hairy man-balls
April 5th, 2008 at 12:36 am