Goku in Trouble Again? Fox Orders Dragonball Reshoots
Well I hate to say “I told you so”, and in this case I won’t, because I’m really not sure what this next bit of news means. However, I think one thing is clear: director James Wong isn’t quite out of the woods yet when it comes to his upcoming live action adaptation of Dragonball. You may recall that a few months ago Film Junk started a commotion on the web when an inside source told us that Fox was actually considering shutting down the entire Dragonball project. The movie had already been delayed once, was a no-show at the San Diego Comic Con, and had a lot of fans complaining from the word go, so it didn’t seem that crazy to think it was possibly in trouble.
Still, Fox eventually came out and confirmed that they remained committed to the movie, saying that a trailer would be released soon. Well, that trailer was never officially released as far as I know, it just sort of leaked quietly to a few fan sites and was continually pulled off YouTube. The response was not very positive, and Fox obviously didn’t want many people to see it.
So now here comes the next chapter in the continuing saga. Someone spotted a notice on Actors Access where a casting call was being made for actors who can speak Nepalese or Tibetan. The post specifically said that it was for Dragonball reshoots, starting on October 30th. The question is, are the reshoots a good thing or bad thing? Generally speaking, reshoots are a bad sign, and it certainly seems to indicate that they aren’t quite satisfied with what they shot so far, but maybe this means there is still a chance to fix things. What do you think, does Dragonball have any hope of hitting its projected April 3rd, 2009 release? Do you have any hope for this project?
Comments (8)
No hope. None. That trailer was an abomination. However, I do hope that even the 12-year-olds that make up it’s primary fan base don’t buy tickets so that Hollywood gets scared and stops trying to butcher anime for awhile.
On a side note, I think Hollywood anime adaptations suffer for the same reason video game movies do: They choose the wrong franchises to adapt; and more significantly they choose the wrong directors. You need a visionary to make something like Dragonball work on screen. Speed Racer is so cartoony no one should have even tried. The Wachowskis made a valiant attempt but they failed with the editing and script.
Posted by Ryan M. on October 22nd, 2008First of all… please do your research. The trailer that was shown was NOT A TRAILER. It was EXPO footage. It was not meant for mass consumption which is why it was pulled.
The official trailer will premiere on December 12th.
As for reshoots, almost ALL movies do reshoots, that’s a god damn fact.
Posted by facts on October 22nd, 2008I’ve said many times before and I’ll say it again. This film is a massive fail bomb waiting to blow up in somebody’s face.
Posted by swarez on October 22nd, 2008No amount of reshoots will save this turd.
“It was EXPO footage.”
It was made of official footage. All of which was what Swarez called a “fail bomb” and far more devastating that the classic “phail whale”. Whatever it was it barely looked like Dragonball.
“almost ALL movies do reshoots”
Not true. Quite the opposite. Studios typically wont fund reshoots unless there is a big problem that can’t be fixed in editing. Reshoots are hard to organize and cost more money than shooting on the original schedule….thus they are usually done as last resort. “please do your research.”
Ah, I love these Dragonball posts.
Posted by Ryan M. on October 22nd, 2008i would guess the reason for the reshoots is because fox has taken control of pic, will find the cheapest way to fill the holes, hack chop it together while Mr. Wong sits on the side lines crying in his soup, wishing he’d never had that brain fart that allowed his ego to think he could pull it off in the first place . . . next!!
Posted by poptart60 on October 22nd, 2008Wong had a promising start, with that TV work, X-Files, Millenium, Space and then a pretty decent horror film with Final Destination. Then it sort of fell apart and his stuff has been mediocre at best.
Yeah and I love how dragonball fans get so defensive over this movie. What are they protecting?
Posted by swarez on October 23rd, 2008I seriously think that this movie will be an abomination… I mean the best thing that could happen for this picture is it goes strait to video… Let’s face it that’s about the quality of the movie… Although the special effects look like they’d kick ass, they just can’t fix the whole movie… I believe it will be an : EPIC FAIL!!!!!
Posted by bull monkey on February 1st, 2009Hey bull monkey you think those effects kick ass man you need to go see some fireworks a roman candle would blow your mind and hey ’sparkelers’ forget about it. this film in two words EPIC FAIL.
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