Yu Yu Hakusho! Posted October 21, 2002 Share Posted October 21, 2002 PLEASE DO NOT CLOSE THIS THREAD!!!!!!!! I am going to list all of the nominees for the roles in the new DBZ movie coming up in a few years. JUST TO LET EVERYONE KNOW, FUNIMATION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PRODUCTION OF THIS MOVIE. MR. AKIRA TORIYAMA, THE CREATER OF DBZ, HAS GIVEN ALL THE LEGAL RIGHTS FOR FOX TO MAKE THIS MOVIE. He met with FOX executives in Japan a couple of months ago and they worked out a deal together to make this movie. The FOX people realized how much money they could make off of DBZ so they're going to make a movie. And yes, it will be a live action movie. If you read DBZ Beckett magazine, you should know all of this already. If you don't beleive that Funimation isn't going to make this movie and FOX is, then cruise on into the offical DBZ website and look around for the link that shows actual proof that Mr. Toriyama gave the rights to FOX and FOX is making the movie, NOT FUNIMATION!!!!! OK...THE NOMINEES THAT DBZ FANS VOTED FOR ARE SO AS LISTED: (just to let everyone know, these are NOT the actual actors that will be in the movie. Who knows, maybe big shots (he's not really a big shot. I just had to name someone in mind...) like Leonardo DiCaprio will want to play the part of Trunks. Or maybe they'll have to get some no name losers....hopefully not.) The fans voted to see the Cell Saga. The movie says that it will have the Frieza Saga, Cell Saga, and the Majin Buu Saga, all in one movie. Characters: Elizabeth Hurley as Chi Chi (Runner up was Sandra Bullock) Nicole Kidman as Bulma (Runner up was Drew Barrymore) Leonardo DiCaprio as Trunks (Runner up was Hayden Christensen) Keanu Reeves as Gohan (Runner up was Frankie Muniz...EWW!!) (But what about kid Gohan, you ask? Who knows. They never said anything about a kid Gohan) Wesley Snipes as Piccolo (Runner up was Ray Park and Bill Goldberg) Vin Diesel as Frieza (Runner up was Tom Cruise and Mike Meyers) The Rock as Cell (Runner up was Arnold Schwarzenegger)-whom I wish was the actual Cell since the Rock is a pretty bad actor! Verne "Mini Me" Troyer or Danny DeVito as Krillin Jet Li as Vegeta (Runner ups were Steven Seagal, Vin Diesel, David Boreanaz, Ray Park and Mel Gibson.) Robin Shou as Goku (Runner up was Jackie Chan) (you remember Robin Shou right? Remember Mortal Combat?) Cameron Diaz as Android 18(Juu-Hachi) There you have it. Actual quotes from this magazine. Again, these are NOT the actual actors, or so I think, that will play in the movie. These are just votes. Hopefully these "big shots" will suck in their pride and actually play the parts. Deep down inside we all know that they do like Anime...You guys vote on who you would like to see play the parts of your favorite characters...just tell me what you think. PS: I have nothing to do with any of this so don't sue me. All the legal rights and all that other crap are to Mr. Toriyama and Bird Studios and Funimation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zidane11 Posted October 21, 2002 Share Posted October 21, 2002 Why can't they use the originalls? Are they dead or something? I guess it seems alright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yu Yu Hakusho! Posted October 21, 2002 Author Share Posted October 21, 2002 You mean the original voice actors of the Japanese DBZ? First of all, the person that does Goku's, Gohan's, and Goten's voice in Japan is a 45 year old woman....the rest of them look nothing like the characters.....and yes, a lot of them are dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bra Posted October 22, 2002 Share Posted October 22, 2002 Well some of the people are good for the characters.... But WHY Leoardo DiCaprio for Trunks!!!???!?! He doesn't even fit into the catagory! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Transtic Nerve Posted October 22, 2002 Share Posted October 22, 2002 Thats a dream cast... Very few if any of them will actually play a part in it. You'll probably get a bunch of first time nobodies (or actors from different countries that have had little exposure here). Thats usually how a movie of this stature works. Much like X-Men worked. Minus the roles of Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, and Rebecca Romijn Stamos. Hugh Jackman, who was an aussie actor got a big jump due to his role in this movie. It'll probably work the same with the DB film. I'm wondering if they'll be strict about asian actors or not, except the portayal of certain "American looking" characters. I guess we'll see when this thing comes out, if it ever does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted October 22, 2002 Share Posted October 22, 2002 [color=blue][size=1]LEONARDO DICAPRIO?!?! He'd better not get the real role. I can picture it now... [b]Make-up artist:[/b] Um, Mr DiCaprio, we forgot to mention that you'll have to dye your hair purple for this role [b]DiCaprio:[/b] No, not my hair! You ain't touching my hair. You can shove this role up your *enter bad naughty swear word here* Ok, maybe not...but you know what'll happen? Fans of Leonardo DiCaprio are going to go see the movie just because the "love of their life" is in it. I'll be stuck in the cinema with little pip squeaks and lovesick teenagers:flaming: Anyway... I don't have any big problems with the rest of the cast[/size][/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper Posted October 22, 2002 Share Posted October 22, 2002 I'm not really a prominent DBZ fan but i was 'hopin the movie would'nt be so stereo filled. All these people were what your were supposed to expect, i wanted new people...who could actually act...properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegeta rocker Posted October 22, 2002 Share Posted October 22, 2002 i would prefer nobodies. But i don't believe that funi would give all the rights away. But then again game cube got resident evil for 6 games so anything can happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GundamGohan Posted October 22, 2002 Share Posted October 22, 2002 Lol... you all make it sound like Yu Yu was saying they were IN the movie... what i think she was tryin to get across was that it was just a list of who would most fit the characters... not nessecarily be IN the cast... but anywho... i thought of a few of my own... heh heh heh... Vegeta - Cant argue... Jet Li would be the coolest... Goku - I was thinking Don "the Dragon" Willson... Bulma - Joey Lauren Adams (both have that annoying voice) Chi Chi - Bai Ling or Lucy Liu Krillin - MJ Fox... or Sean Astin... Danny DeVito = no Gohan - I was thinking of Earnie Ryes Jr. for Teen... not sure for young Gohan tho... Piccolo - Billie Blanks (yea... the Tai Bo guy) Kame - Toshiro Mifune or Samuel L. Jackson... Hurcule - Of course you MUST go with a Goofball... so Tim Allen takes the illustrious prize Roshi - Who else but George Carlin?? Yajarobi - Sammo Hung (yea.. he's old... but fits the profile) Ox King - Here's where the Big Guy Arnold would fit in. Trunks - I just cant bring myself to accept Leo (tho he played a good retard in Gilbert Grape)... so I chose Mathew Brodrick or Donnie Yen for Future Trunks... but couldnt think of anyone off hand for younger Trunks... Yamcha - Either Sasha Mitchell (the kickboxer guy) or Adrian Paul (The Highlander... he's so cute...lol...) Tha's bout all I thought up right off hand... so... yea... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yu Yu Hakusho! Posted October 22, 2002 Author Share Posted October 22, 2002 PPL...if you listened to what I said at least 2 times in my first post, these are just VOTES that the DBZ fans wanted to play the roles! Not the actual actors that will be in it!! All of them would proably refuse since they think they're too good for DBZ in the first place...like a bunch of people have said before, a bunch of no-name actors will proably be in it. But what if everyone were to be totally computer animated? How about that, huh? Like Yoda from SW Epi. 2 or Final Fantasy the Spirits Within. That would be pretty cool. And then just have FUNImation do the voices. Nothing else. Just so that they won't ruin it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Transtic Nerve Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Yu Yu Hakusho! [/i] [B]PPL...if you listened to what I said at least 2 times in my first post, these are just VOTES that the DBZ fans wanted to play the roles! Not the actual actors that will be in it!! All of them would proably refuse since they think they're too good for DBZ in the first place...like a bunch of people have said before, a bunch of no-name actors will proably be in it. But what if everyone were to be totally computer animated? How about that, huh? Like Yoda from SW Epi. 2 or Final Fantasy the Spirits Within. That would be pretty cool. And then just have FUNImation do the voices. Nothing else. Just so that they won't ruin it. [/B][/QUOTE] If you're trying to state a point, it's probably better not to address us as "PPL"... Anyway, if it were computer animated, it wouldn't be that big a thing. I think the aspect of real life characters portraying a cartoon is what makes a hype so big. If it were computer animated the whole way I'd just look at it as something similar to what they've done, OR I wouldn't like it at all. They attempted that computer animation in the DB: Final Bout game, and the characters look a little... bad. I wouldn't want that throughout a whole movie. I'm curious as to how they'll preform certain aspects of characters (the way they look etc) because it's rather hard to make an anime into something real life based on it's foundation or art. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devon Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 ill tell you one thing. mr.t has got to be frieza. no doubt about it. its a must. also leo (if hes in it) i will refuse to go see it. ill just wait for the video. plus like transic said it would be REALLY hard to make it look like anime. i mean anime is just created so ....... different that any other real life thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manic Webb Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Transtic Nerve [/i] [B]I'm wondering if they'll be strict about asian actors or not, except the portayal of certain "American looking" characters.[/B][/QUOTE] If anyone, the characters I believe [i]must[/i] be played by Asian actors are ChiChi, Krillin (he was a Chinese monk, for goodness sakes!), Ox King/Gyu Maou, and maybe Yamcha. Bulma's family and all aliens are too miscellaneous-looking. and Ernie Reyes Jr. would be a [i]perfect[/i] teenaged Gohan. And Verne Troyer is way too short to play Krillin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegeta rocker Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 just because krillen was chinese doesnt mean the actor will be. In a terrible twist of fate they might get an african american....lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Ill kick their asses if they put Leonardo dicaprio in! :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shining Gundam Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 I don't know about everyone else, but sorry i think that making DBZ into a real life movie is a joke. I laugh every time i think about real people trieing to do a lot of the moves they do in anima. IT'S ANIMA for crying out loud, and that's why people like it because it's not like real life. As for the action, unless they use really good computor effects, i think the fighting would just become like another martial arts movie, with some cool effects maybe like they did in THE ONE. But the way i see it, is that since it will be american made, and done by a cable channel i'm not getting my hopes up. One example i can think of is the reallife Street Fighter movie, which i didn't really like. Sorry to bust on your party with negativity, but these are my thoughts and feel free to disagree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GundamGohan Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 I'd be interesting if PIXAR got ahold of it tho... They tend to do some pretty good jobs with computer animation... but then again... most of em are originals... so i dont know how they'd do at trying to emulate another drawing or character into 3-D... But yea... the Live action thing does sound lame, but I'm still gonna go see it jus cuz it's DBZ... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manic Webb Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 I know it sounds lame and I have no plans to pay for that movie. I might watch it, but I don't plan to pay for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSJ Gotenks ok Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 I have a bad feeling about that movie i think it's gonna be horrible.And the dream cast listed would be kind of nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acid Posted October 25, 2002 Share Posted October 25, 2002 [size=1][color=firebrick] Face it people. No matter how bif a fan of Dragonball Z you are, no matter who plays who and no matter who the director is, this movie will suck. You can't go against the laws of reason. [b]Every[/b] live action anime *cough* Guyver *cough* movie has turned out absolutley horrible. Plus DBZ is pinted so towards kids, I doubt this movie will be an exception to that rule. [/size][/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted October 25, 2002 Share Posted October 25, 2002 [color=blue][size=1]Yes, I agree, this movie will be crap...but I still want to see it, just out of curiosity(sp?). And if it is crap (which it most probably will be) I'll throw popcorn at the screen and boo. No, seriously. Some little kid sitting next to me will probably start to cry if I do that:p[/size][/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Imsirion Posted October 26, 2002 Share Posted October 26, 2002 I would hate to see famous people in it, that would suck. "Nobodies" would be perfect, people like Leo DeCRAPio would totally ruin it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_chick Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 I think Jet Li would be a very good Vegeta and Jackie Chan would make a greak Goku, being that he is humorous and can fight. But instead of using real people, in my opinion, they should do a computer animation thing (like final fantasy). That's probably the only way they will really get close, when it comes to special effects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Sound_Nin] Posted October 29, 2002 Share Posted October 29, 2002 they all suit the characters fine except i dont wanna be stuck in the movies with a bunch of little girls when trunks comes on. Those people creep me out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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