Weekly Young Jump Scan
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.

cody
No I didn’t see it its just rumor posted since there is no direct link from http://dragonballfilm.over-blog.com/
@The Kappa: And as a one minded simpleton, this movie is going to be gay to you. While in a true fan view, this movie hadn’t came out yet, so we should save all the rants until the the movie came out and see if its good or not. Though personnally, it might be good.
@Richard: And your comment is FFFUUUCCCCKKKED UUUUPP.
wow, now things are getting bad on here. you even got adam upset, but i think it has something to do with the “yank” comment. you see, not everyone here is from the united states and therefore they are not “yanks.” i just want all of the people complaining about small issues to grow up.
@Tegan: Yeah it’s really quite pathetic.
Well said Adam. I’d say it’s a bunch of kids being dicks because they’ve got nothing better to do, but then again Dorkyfresh is obviously no kid, so that’s not the reason. I can’t imagine anyone on this planet who resembles the cartoon more than this Chatwin guy who for whatever reason was born with tennis ball eyes, a tiny mouth, pointy nose, dumbo ears, and basketball player height… You have to be blind not to see how ridiculously perfect his look is for the character. That and if you watch any interview, he sounds like he’s on another planet while he’s talking, possibly dreaming of food. Like I said before it’s like some people want for Dragon ball what happened to sailor moon. 4 of the characters are obviously not asian ethnicity, yet the live action versions are all cast that way and it looks ridiculous. So shut. The. Fuuuuuuuuuuuunk. up. they did this right.
instead of just crying about goku not being asian and bulmas hair not being blue enough or the dragonball isnt supposed to float, (all things that are done and we cant change) and all this is based on a couple of pics by the way, Cant we just talk about the movie? talk about the kind of promotion they might do, what we think they should do to promote, i wonder how much they are gonna spend on promoting? what we expect to see, what were excited to see, what we hope to see in the movie? talk about some characters like krillin, if he might show up later maybe in a sequel, is puar or oolong gonna be in this maybe as just real animals that dont actually talk or did they just do away with all that completely fake stuff? who is ernie hudson gonna play for sure? who do we think he should play? i wonder if theyll use real city names in this like tokyo, new york, LA, you know, instead of the fake names they used in the show, i think it would give it more realism using real names. what about the box office numbers we think itll get, i mean, what we truly think the numbers will be, not just what we want them to be. how does speed racer affect this, probably negative right, i think the trailor, if good enough, will make speed racer not matter, Dragonball just has a much better story than speed racer… lets talk about something good on here, come on
@jake: i agree with you 100%. so we just need to get all of the complainers to agree with us. lets discuss the important stuff. do you think it will happen?
Oh and if you want an asian goku, here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q5WPwYZa14
@Adam: Lol sorry but was just funny to me “technically your an idiot” haha
i dont know man, complainers are just gonna complain, thats obviously what they come here for, unless they just leave, i dont think thats gonna happen though either. we just need to raise more topics for discussion and kill all this negative stuff, i mean, the negative stuff gets you fired up yea, but id rather talk about the live action dragonball movie that weve been wanting and waiting for and is actually happening!! im with you man, we should be hyping this thing, stay positive and talk about something good… i myself am wondering if gokus gonna fly at any point in this movie, does he learn he can do this at a young age or does it come in a sequel? what about flying nimbus, did they get rid of that completely or what, i dont know if that would be cool in this movie or not, a flying cloud? i wonder if piccolo flys at all? what do you think, anybody know anything about this or have any input?
Am I the only one that notices there is a 20 year difference between Goku and Chatwin and that the picture on the left looks like it was edited in photoshop.
Come on guys, stop being stupid fan boys.
This is going to be terrible.
Let’s talk about the tone of the film. These obviously make the movie seem dark and mystical. Looking at James Wong’s past films, it seems like he’s going for a similar dark tone to those final destination movies, but I hope he’s got more epic scope in mind, something like lotr but with the levity of harry potter. What say you to that?
lmao, I love how these supposed ‘film makers’ come on here and post how bad the movie is/going to be. I find that funny because more than likely they haven’t made anything that is even worthing watching on youtube. go back to imdb please
Seriously, sometimes I wonder if people would prefer we fans kept hoping someday they’d make this movie. Sure it’s late as hell but damnit, it’s still a dream come true. I wish people would stop being cynical about it. We all know you watched and enjoyed the series just as much as anybody did back in the good ol’ days when cartoon network wasn’t full of shit.
Well, I guess he looks okay. The hair’s kinda cool. Physically, in Dragon ball he wasn’t as bulky, but he was pretty cut. I can’t really tell how buff Chatwin is by the pic, but hey maybe they’ll show his intense training sequence in 100 x gravity next film, as he bulks up. It’ll be interesting if they filmed part of the film as Justin normal body size, than shoot the other part of the film after he bulks up, and show it as a result of his intense training. That’ll be kinda cool. He should work with the 300 guys.
I don’t know how they’re gonna do the flying thing, or the aura without it looking cheesy, but I guess CGI can do wonders.
JP is being a jerk, there will be no more podcasts with him. Sorry. I won’t get into it.
The trailer description sounds ok but it focuses too much on the tournament which is not a good thing at all.
They should have more than just the tournament action scenes.
Emperor Adam Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!
Why? How could you say something like that??
Why boss????
Im sorry Adam, but you said something really stupid! Did I just see you say “this site is decent”? This site is off the hook
…. Anyways, I don’t want to see you and JP beef, it’s freakin’ immature.
It’s addictive like my Xbox360. I always look forward coming here when I get off of work. The layout and everything is amazing!! Im still waiting on that space background though
@http://www.myspace.com/coreywilson10: JP is just not very nice to me.. I’m really sorry about that but it’s true.
Thank you for your continued support Corey, it means a lot.
WTF?….i think anyone who says that pictures look cool need some serious mental checking and is not a fan of dragon ball by any mean….
@Adam: No problem boss!! Just keep doing what your doing and don’t let no one stop you, because this site keeps getting better and better. I have a feeling James Marsters comes here all the time. That’s what one of my sources say!
@darkvegetto: You got the nerve to talk. You don’t even have a picture!!
whats up with http://www.dragonballmovieblog.com/ website
Chatwin and Emmy look amazing!! Chatwin looks exactly like Goku in the Piccolo Jr. saga…. Thanks James Wong
@dragonball_kid: Beats me…maybe Fox got them?
edit: I’ll be offline most of today because I haven’t slept in 24 hours. I know this site will be bashed while I’m asleep but I just want to thank the loyal readers and I wouldn’t believe anything you read about the site. Some people just don’t like me.
wow i read the all of the posts here n there is alot of racism on hurr. lol wheres the love ppl!? c’mon we are all fans here lets be mature about this. now we all now this movie is gunna be great!
haha
and yes we should talk more bout the promoting and all that jazz fox is goin to do for this movie. you kno for every movie like spiderman, xmen, and hulk. they have action figures from the movies. what do u guys think about this movie having action figures?
Personally id like to see that stuff..
OH PLEASE DONT FINISH THIS MOVIE IT IS GOING TO SUCK BIG TIME!!!! HOW CAN YOU DO THAT?? GOKUS HAIR LOOKS STUPID!!!! YOU ARE GOING TO DESTROY DB!! B A S T A R D S!!!!!
Ken Skaii
Completely agree with your suggestions ;]
Can’t wait for the film ;]
Well about Goku being skinny in DB, His size kinda varied. In this http://youtube.com/watch?v=GbEVNjowXWY
(disreguard the music, youtube is filled with nothing but crap AMV’s rather than actual clips) You see that at times Goku is pretty scrawny, but than they show him actually kinda buff as he powered up and crap. Don’t know how they’ll handle that in the movie, but they’ll probably won’t be any shirtless fighting scenes so I’m guessing he won’t really need to be that buff at least now anyways.
So the buffness is going to have to wait til later on. I’m still kinda skeptical on how they’re gonna do the aura around them without it looking wierd. Justin does have that goofy dumb look though. I was one of those people who thought Goku should be an asian guy, and Justin was way too skinny, and all that jazz, but now it looks slightly promising.
Darkhorizons mention the Dragonball pic on the Young shonen jump issue. They also sourced Dbthemovie.com
Thanks Garth Franklin, You rock!!!!
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news08/080516n.php
This is the best Dragonball site eva!
Keep the hype coming Adam
You’re right Adam JP is just a big floppy donkey dick.
soz i dont know how to quote.
Hey Adam. You’re probably resting right now, but I just want to thank you for working hard by keeping us up to date with all the great movie news. Don’t let JP get to you, he’s just jealous. This is the best dragonball site around!
Does anyone know when the United States version will get here?
I just love this clip of piccolo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHKUPUGZgOE&feature=related
@Super_Saiyin_Thomas: He can be.
@http://www.myspace.com/coreywilson10: Thank you!
@SSJ Spartan: Thanks
@stonecipher: Not soon I don’t think.
@Adam: Oh! so no more podcasts with JP? To me that’s really good news, it looks like some of us will have to be taking his spot
And I’m sure we’d do a better job than him…
Please guys, no tongue clicking
I love the people that claim that if you think anything good about the movie, you’re not a “tr00 fan”. Which is completely stupid. Most of those kids probably thought Dragonball AF was real, or consider GT to be canon.
I’m a supporter of this movie, not to say that it will definitely be good. I just HOPE it turns out well. I can deal with an adaption, maybe because I’m not an anime fanboy PURIST. And this is coming from a fan who owns the entire collection of original japanese figures and complete volumes of manga and Daizenshuu. Get off your high horse kids, open your mind and at least attempt to support the movie like any rational fan.
did anyone see the movie The Covenant? i only bring it up cause that movie had a couple scenes that had a little similarity to what a dragonball fight could look like (but the dragonball scenes looking about 100x’s better of course) they were flying and throwing blasts at each other in there, now im not trying to say that it had awesome effects or anything but considering the estimated 20 million dollar budget it had, they didnt look all that bad.. some of the flying looked like they were hanging from cables and the blasts looked like water balls from a super soaker 5000 or something but think about it, this movie had a bunch of no name actors and the story was about male witches… insert dragonball characters and dragonball story and add 80 more million to the budget and this movie starts to look pretty damn good or at least very promising, so for everyone saiyan.. sorry, i mean saying how this is gonna suck and be so terrible… what are you thinking? the first xmens budget was about 80 million, you kinda see what im saying here? how about giving a movie with a 100 million dollar budget a chance before you start bashing it, if it sucks in a year then by all means, bash away, but do you think they just threw all that money away, i mean, i hope they didnt, it better have been put to damn good use!
I saw the “Covenant”! My uncle is the one who told me about it. He thought since I like Dragonball I would like the Covenant. Boy was he wrong!! Anyways, I watch the “Convenant” and man that movie was bad. I admit I was kind of into it in the begining, but then they would mess the groove up and do something cheesy. The more I watch the movie the more I began to do this
It was totally lame and cheesy!! It was predictable and didn’t get me excited in any way. I wanted to turn it off as soon as I saw the final fight scene in the barn. It felt like they were rushing the movie and trying to hard to make it cool. The special effects was ok, but it was all over the place. They didn’t use the special effects very well!! They had a good concept, but they rushed it. If you guys want to check it out go here….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka6OtbPPE-c
Variety Narnia sequel friday results
“Caspian’s” loot marked the third best opening day for Disney in May behind last year’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” ($42.9 million) and 2003’s “Finding Nemo” ($20.2 million).
The only new wide release of the weekend, “Caspian” will easily take the weekend crown, and its B.O. will only gain momentum from Saturday and Sunday family matinees.
“Prince Caspian” stole kids away from Warner Bros.’ “Speed Racer,” which came in fourth for the day, declining a steep 68% from opening Friday to $1.98 million from 3,606 for an eight-day cume of $24.1 million.
Placing No. 2 on Friday was Par’s B.O. hit “Iron Man,” which came close to flying past the $200 million mark at the domestic B.O. The Paramount-Marvel superhero pic grossed $8.6 million for the day from 4,154 sites, a 42% decline, for a cume of $199.9 million in the midst of its third frame.”
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117985990.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
Whoever “Pff” is on JP’s site, please stop. There is always going to be people who don’t like you, and I would like to move on. I’ve been sick in bed and all I need is to start a flame war.
well thats exactly the points i was trying to make, thats what you get for 20 million and a story about male witches. i cant say it was a complete pile of crap though, maybe a piece of crap, but there are so many worse movies out there. your uncle saw the similarities though with some scenes and effects and thats all i was trying to say… now imagine Dragonball with 5x’s the budget and much better characters and story, makes The Covenant look like a bigger piece of crap dont it
that picture looks real good, i hope the script is as good. i cant believe how many people hate this movie already though! i bet that will change when the trailer hits, its definatly a dragonball he is holding, i dont reckon goku will use any energy blasts untill he uses the kamehameha
im not just trying to base the success of movies on the size of the budgets though, cause we all know sometimes you get Speed Racer, but the bigger the budget the more promise and potential for the movie
I totally agree with you jake!! Lets just hope they don’t spend $50,000,000 on a screw driver and $60,000,000 on a tooth brush. Let’s have faith that they will spend it all on the graphics!!
I want to see some flying like Iron man. I want to see at least 5 energy blasts. Most of all I want to see…. (Emperor Adam is going to hate me for this)
Oozaruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
all im saying is they better have his tail at one point or as corey would put it Oozaruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
finally listened to podcast 4 and it had a lot of good stuff in there, i like what adam says about how not only does the movie have a 100 million$ budget but that they also have 12 months or so of post production to spend that budget… thought that was an excellent point, good stuff guys.
@I’m a banana: Yeah, besides Goku is inhuman anyway. So if they display Goku’s irrational strength, than this movie is good.