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Qwailo from DBMB posted some interesting information that apparently came straight from Ernie Hudson at Lodon Expo 2008. Qwailo asked which character he would be playing in the movie and Ernie replied with the following.

“I play a monk, who is Chow Yun Fat’s character’s master and he creates the jar that is used to contain/trap piccolo”.

The description sounds like Master Mutaito, though with the name changed possibly.

The same source who sent us the Weekly Young Jump scans has just recently sent us these exclusive new scans from the July 7th issue of Roadshow magazine. Click to enlarge.




You can also view the characters individually by clicking the images below.

Included in the translations are comments from the cast, and the director James Wong!

Goku – Justin Chatwin
I think it is an honor to play Goku. He is a universal character, as if a reincarnation of Luke Skywalker, really great character to play. Goku always takes action himself, is positive thinking, helps the weak. He had a great influence on myself.

Chi-Chi – Jamie Chung
This movie is the first action movie for me. I’m very proud of my first work in such a large scale. I enjoyed the martial arts training and everyone tried very hard. This movie is sure to be special,
please see this.

Yamcha – Joon Park
When I was a child, I had a lot of Japanese friends, I was familiar with Dragonball’s characters. Manga is a part of my life. Yamcha is an ironic and humorous character. He talks tough, but actually he is soft and a little weak on the inside. Please pay attention to his change through the journey.

Bulma – Emmy Rossum
Bulma is very funky, sexy and strong-minded, a wonderful character. I’m very happy to be able to play this role. I feel responsible for this role because there are many fan of the original manga. We are working hard to please the fans.

Master Roshi – Chow Yun-Fat
Master Roshi is a very funny guy. Anyway… he’s funny (laugh) Indeed, it is my first time in my career to play a manga character like this. Normally I can’t play a 300 year old man, but I enjoy playing this role. The director is doing good job, I think he mixes Eastern and Western culture well.

Dragonball is the best-seller manga from Weekly Shonen Jump. Original manga is made up of 42 volumes in a epic story. The animation has aired overseas, and has hardcore fans all over the world. But how will they make it into a movie ?

“Original manga is definitely a classic. Due to time constraints, I’m sorry I can’t adopt all the wonderful things from the original, but I’m happy I’m involved in this movie and I think it turned out well. I think the manga readers will find [many] things they have liked in the manga, that is, the spirit of the original,” director James Wong said.

Final Destination (2000), The One (2001) and etc. have received high acclaim for [their] own visual style, and we are anticipating the visual stylings in Dragonball!

Movieland posted another picture of Justin Chatwin as Goku from the Japanese Roadshow magazine.

Dukemon and the 2ch boards posted early scans from the V-Jump and Roadshow Japanese magazines, giving us our first look at Chow Yun-Fat as Master Roshi, as well as more pics of Goku and Bulma.

These two scans were taken from Roadshow, which is to be released July 7th.

And this one is from V-Jump.

Someone who wishes to remain anonymous sent us a scan from Weekly Young Jump in high quality. There might be more to come…

Amanz points out that the Goku and Bulma photos on the bottom of the page look like they are from a poster.

We’ve also got a translation!

The world wide masterpiece that Japan can be proud of finally will make into a Hollywood movie! Many of our readers are the Dragonball generation, so we will introduce you new information in series toward the upcoming movie release in 2009 !

(a caption of Goku picture)
This is movie version Son Goku ! Goku, who is staring at a dragonball. What will he wish for with this mysterious gem?

How will original manga of Mr.Toriyama be depicted as live-action? it is anticipated in the entire world.

What is Dragonball?
Though we think it is needless to explain it, we will review for the preparation of movie release. It is created by Akira Toriyama, was serialized in the Weekly Shonen Jump from 1984. Strong and cheerful boy Son Goku and his adventure story captivated the readers quickly.

Dragonball allways kept running on the top of the manga field. Unfortunately it ended its serialization in 1995. Its popularity is not only domestic but also other Asia, Europe and the United States, it is loved by people all over the world.

In the next hot news No.2, we will deliver you the report on the set around summer.

Chelo248 informs us of a comment left by Lucille of Emmy Rossum Fan. She states she met James Marsters at Collectormania, and learned the director was only allowing stunt doubles when absolutely necessary.

Random tidbit, but I gained a new appreciation today for how hard Emmy would have worked on Dragonball. I was talking to James Marsters (he plays Piccolo) and he said that it was the hardest job he’d ever had in his life because the stunts were simply so demanding and the director wasn’t letting anybody (including Emmy) fall back on stunt doubles unless it was desperately necessary. I don’t know the extent of Emmy’s stuntwork, but if it’s even half as much as James’ she worked her butt off.

Our first look at Justin Chatwin as Goku is here.

Sour Mikan informs us that the scan is from Weekly Shonen Jump issue number 24 which is available officially this Monday.

I saw the same picture at Shonen Jump Spoiler forum in Japan. #24 is available at Monday officialy. I hope official website will update something at Monday.

I [also] heard that the next issue of Weekly Young Jump (not Shonen Jump) will have an article about this movie.

He also provides us with a translation.

I’ll grant you a wish…!!

Rumor after rumor but [now] Dragonball live action movie finally comes true !
Director James Wong of Final Destination, and producer the revolutionary film maker Stephen Chow of Shaolin Soccer. Remarkable casts are Son Goku is Justin Chatwin who played Tom Cruise’s son at Steven Spielberg movie War of the Worlds, and Master Roshi is Chow yun-fat of Pirates of the Caribbean.

All Dragonball fan’s wish are granted now ! We will continue to offer new information to you on Jump Cinema Island !

And the Chinese character on the Goku’s T-shirts is “Un”(means luck, fate, fortune)

UPDATE: Color scan here!

Dragonball Movie Blog snagged some (new?) set photos today. They really aren’t all that exciting, but we’ll take anything during this drought of news. The pics look like unfinished versions of the volcano set picture /Film posted.