More Chow In Dragonball, And Marsters Blurbs

Posted by JP | Cast, Chow Yun-Fat, James Marsters | Thursday 27 December 2007 9:36 pm

A fan site for Chow Yun-Fat has a few more comments from the actor about Dragonball, though they didn’t list a source for their information.

Yesterday [Chow Yun-Fat] has confirmed that 20th Century Fox executives have contacted him. He expressed that DRAGONBALL was a great opportunity and honestly said that he has never played a Japanese manga character. He has only heard about DRAGONBALL many times but has not made any in depth study. After the film company contacted him, he started to read the manga and felt that the role had a lot of possibilities. Although he was not the lead in the manga, he did not mind as long as the role had potential. [Chow] honestly said that after several decades of acting, now he would only accept roles with room to demonstrate his abilities. After confirmation next January he would head to Mexico for location shoots and stay until mid March.

SOURCE

UPDATE:
Didn’t think it was worth a new post, but since it falls into the same category as this post, I’ll just put it here.

Anyways, on James Marsters official fan site he mentioned Dragonball quickly in one of his Q&A’s.

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Pie and cake: I don’t eat pie or cake, stop asking me about food. I’m in training for “Dragon Ball” food is bad! Water is good!

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Comments (16) for “More Chow In Dragonball, And Marsters Blurbs”

  1. Anonymous Says:
    December 27th, 2007 at 10:09 pm

    cool i guess, I just cant wait for some new photos… probably get some by mid Jan..

  2. Alzatia Says:
    December 28th, 2007 at 12:49 am

    That’s great I guess. More chances for Roshi’s character to also be perverted in the film. xD

  3. www.myspace.com/coreywilson10 Says:
    December 28th, 2007 at 1:47 am

    Yes this is real good! He is reading the manga. The manga comics stay true to the character. Chow yun fat rocks for reading the manga. That’s good, because I never heard of a actor that ever read the manga! I can’t wait to see Chow yun as master Roshi!!!! This is gonna be different!

  4. El Señor JM Says:
    December 28th, 2007 at 4:14 am

    and what about this new:
    26/12/2007
    El live action Dragonball ha sido cancelado

    En septiembre cuando se anunciaba q los personajes de Dragon Ball eran llevados a la gran pantalla con actores de carne y hueso, muchos recibieron alegres esta noticia, y había montón de información q circulaba por la red y en muchos foros se especulaba sobre este live action (se denomina de este modo cuando un comic es llevado a la gran pantalla con actores reales). Sin embargo, por todo lo que se hablo, la Fox decidió cancelar el rodaje hasta nuevo aviso.

    El rodaje oficialmente comenzó el 15 de diciembre, y duro hasta el 23 de este mismo mes, haciendo un paradón debido al la semana de fiestas, tenia la intención de continuar en el estado de Durango, en México (donde pensaban utilizar localizaciones como los Estudios Churubusco, el Nevado de Toluca y la ciudad de Santa Fe). Sin embargo trascendió q la Fox cancelara el proyecto.

    En un comunicado los ejecutivos de la Fox, anunciaron que la filmación de Dragonball, no era necesaria, por el momento, ya que el director James Wong, decidió abandonar el rodaje debido a diferencias irreconciliables.
    Esto no es la primera vez q sucede en un rodaje, la renuncia a una superproducción, cuando los estudios presionan al director.

    Trascendió también, por otra parte, que el actor Chow Yun Fat quien iba a interpretar al personaje del Maestro Roshi, iba a comenzar a filmar a partir de enero, pero al estudiar la obra original, decidió no participar en ella.
    A esto se le suma, el pedido del actor Justin Chatwin de una suba en su salario, debido a que Dragonball es un producto millonario, y en una charla entre los productores y su representante, se decidió acceder a ello, después de una gran disputa que se viene sosteniendo desde noviembre pasado.

    Aun así el rodaje, fue cancelado, debido a la falta de director, la Fox, estuvo buscando alguien que reemplazara a James Wong, y que a partir de enero, se pusiera tras las cámaras. Se escucho el nombre de Stephen Chow por momentos, pero este productor, actor y director, tiene otros proyectos, y a partir de que accedió a producir Dragonball, la Fox supo que no podía, ocupar otro cargo mas que ese.

    Los estudios Fox, dijeron que el rodaje, puede ser que continue dentro de dos años, con fecha posible de estreno en diciembre de 2010.
    Aunque existe la posibilidad de realizar Dragonball, a través de técnicas por ordenador, como se ha visto con la reciente Beowulf. Pero estos estudios no dijeron nada al respecto.

    Fuente: El Universal

    Saludos.

  5. JP Says:
    December 28th, 2007 at 6:36 am

    That’s actually a joke.

  6. buccoboo Says:
    December 28th, 2007 at 12:38 pm

    I love the comment by Marsters, about how he can’t eat pie or cake. Water only, lol.

  7. Anonymous Says:
    December 29th, 2007 at 12:58 am

    That article was a joke because of Holy Innocents’ Day (which is like April Fools); the article itself even mentions that it’s just a joke. =)

  8. Pepekun Says:
    December 29th, 2007 at 2:57 am

    Yo Que estaba ilusionado y con ganas de verlo pronto porque la han cancelado. Podrían haberse esperado un poco más para el estreno pero cancelarlo es una tontería aunque sea una broma. Que no la tiene.

  9. alzatia Says:
    December 29th, 2007 at 6:56 pm

    I translated the arcticle el senor jm posted.

    12/26/2007
    The Live Action adpatation of DragonBall has been canceled.

    On September it was announced tha the characters of the franchise,DragonBall,would be taken to the big screen through living,breathing actors. Many recived the news with open arms and much talk about information that was spread on the net and many forums had much speculation for this live action. But,even after all that was talked,Fox decided to pull the plug on this project for now until further notice.

    Filming officially started December 15 and lasted until the 23rd,giving a break for the holidays,with the intention of continuing filming at the state of Durango,Mexico. But then Fox went on to cancel the proyect.

    In an excecutive meeting at Fox,it was announced that filming of DragonBall wasn’t neccesary at the moment,since director James Wong decided to abandon the proyect because of unrreconsiable(sp?) differences.

    Meanwhile,Chow Yun Fat,who was to play Master Roshi,was about to start filming a part in January,but after studying the orginal story,decided not to be a part of the proyect. (Maybe he didn’t like the fact that Roshi was a pervert?)
    Adding more fuel to the fire concerning the actor,young Justing Chatwin was asking for a raise in his salary because the DragonBall francise is a multi-million dolar franchise,and in a talk between producers and Chatwin’s representative said producers agreed on the raise,but after a big dispute that occured last November.

    Fox Studios said that production may resume in about 2 years,for a possible December 2010 release.
    Although there is the possibility to make DragonBall through CGI,much like the recent BeoWulf. But the studios haven’t said anything on them taking this route.

    Source: El Universal

    I myself haven’t checked the source,going to do so now. Also sorry if there are some spelling errors. Im usually stuck between english and spanish considering I talk one and write the other. xD

  10. Anonymous Says:
    December 29th, 2007 at 11:39 pm

    Ok that’s not true, because Emmy Rossum said she is excited to play Dragonball with Chow yun fat next year. She confirmed that December 25th on her myspace blog. That’s pretty recent to me….

    http://www.myspace.com/emmyrossum

    So people don’t believe that spanish article. It’s not true!!!

  11. Alzatia Says:
    December 30th, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    I NEVER in my post said I believed it or that it was true,I just translated it for people to know what it said. Also I tried to search for the source and couldn’t find one,it’s most likely fake.

  12. Vestitor89 Says:
    December 30th, 2007 at 8:24 pm

    I checked the source and I could not find any article that stated anything about the movie being delayed. So yeah it’s false.

  13. Anonymous Says:
    December 31st, 2007 at 10:20 am

    Happy fucking new year bitches.

  14. dbultra Says:
    January 2nd, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    I hope master roshie is not a rip off like tito is for krillin.

  15. Sacchiel Says:
    January 3rd, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    I’m really stoked about this movie!

  16. Anonymous Says:
    January 12th, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    I think it is a big mistake to make Dragonball into a movie. I can’t believe that Chow Yun Fat would take the role as Master Roshi too. Shall anyone make Doraemon into a movie next? May I suggest Chow Yun Fat as Doraemon?

    http://www.petalia.org/Funpage/Phim/doremon1.htm

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