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Chow Yun-Fat Joins Dragonball Movie as Master Roshi(swipe);more DBZ movie news http://www.animenewsnetwo...ster-roshi
The Hollywood Reporter entertainment trade newspaper reports that international star Chow Yun-Fat will play the character Master Roshi in Twentieth Century Fox's live-action film adaptation of Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball action manga. In the original manga and in the film version, Master Roshi is a mentor of the lead character Son Goku (Justin Chatwin), and he helps train Goku in martial arts. Chow rose to fame in Hong Kong with a series of John Woo films that included A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled. He found some success outside Hong Kong in such films as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Curse of the Golden Flower, and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Chow joins a Dragon Ball cast that already includes Chatwin, James Marsters (Piccolo), Jamie Chung (Chi Chi), Emmy Rossum (Bulma), Eriko Tamura (Mai), and Joon Park (Yamcha). Shooting has begun in Mexico City and Los Angeles, and the studio is planning for an August 15 release. ----- http://www.animenewsnetwo...hang-in-db The Japanese news website Searchina picked up on Chinese newspaper reports on December 17 that Stephen Chow, the director of Shaolin Soccer and a producer on Twentieth Century Fox's live-action Dragon Ball movie, unsuccessfully tried to bring more Chinese actors into the cast of Dragon Ball. The reports name Edison Chen (Infernal Affairs, Initial D, The Grudge 2) and Kitty Zhang Yuqi (Chow's upcoming CJ7) among the actors and actresses that Chow attempted to hire for the production. The movie is an adaptation of Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball manga. The announced cast includes Justin Chatwin (Son Goku), James Marsters (Piccolo), Jamie Chung (Chi Chi), Emmy Rossum (Bulma), Eriko Tamura (Mai), and Joon Park (Yamcha). "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." |
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...and why exactly is a white guy playing Goku? Goku ain't white? But then again...a spanish woman played Sue Storm so maybe I should lose all faith in people who do movie castings because I'm a fan boy and I WILL bitch. http://prince.org/msg/100/263154?&pg=2
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 This fangirl is having a heart attack. I get the feeling I'll be crying my eyes out and throwing shit at the screen when it comes out.
...my boyfriend will too. Why hasn't anyone bitch slapped 20th century for this? THEY'RE MESSIN WITH THE ORDER! YOU DON'T GO MESSIN' WITH THE ORDER!!  | |
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