Live-Action Dragonball Z Movie Being Filmed in Montreal?

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The 20th Century Fox studio is expected to shoot three big-budget movies in Montreal over the next year; each has a budget of at least $100 million. The films are the Night at the Museum sequel Another Night, Independence Day director Roland Emmerich's remake of the sci-fi flick Fantastic Voyage and a big-screen adaptation of the Japanese manga Dragonball Z.

Dragonball Z is adapted from the manga created by Akira Toriyama; the work was also turned into a Japanese anime series that played all over the world. It tells the story of an alien sent to destroy Earth, who has a change of heart and decides to join the humans in their fight against various aliens and bad guys.

There are no details yet as to when these three shoots will begin, but they are expected to wrap production by next July.
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There's been talk of a live-action DBZ film coming from Fox since DBZ was still on Cartoon Network's Toonami. But this is the first mention I've heard in a while (last I heard, they were still working on the script). Though, according to Superherohype.com, this information isn't confirmed (though confirmation should be coming soon), so the original report might turn out to not be 100% accurate.

Not a fan of the anime or manga myself, but if it does get made, it should be interesting to see how well it does, and what it means for American-made live-action adaptions of other anime and manga (since there's been talk of an Evangelion movie for as long as there's been talk of a DBZ movie, and there's still talk of a new Street Fighter movie).
 
Anime that could work as an American movie: Ghost in the Shell, Death Note (as a spin-off), Speed Racer, Astroboy... basically anything that isn't special effects heavy or with a large cast of main character people..

Eva drifts on maybe, but I'm pretty skeptical of a Dragonball comic... it just makes me think of the street fighter movie.
 
As I said on Toon Zone...there's about a million ways this movie could suck and only a few ways it wouldn't. It would need a budget that rivals Spider-Man 3 to not look like crap, for one thing.

For another thing, making the characters look believable will be extremely difficult. Giving everyone crazy hair and orange gi works in the manga and anime, but it would look absolutely ridiculous when put on a live actor. I don't see them pulling an X-Men and giving everyone leather, either.

I'll repeat...there's about a million ways this movie could suck, and only a few ways it could actually be watchable.
 
I started kiling myself laughing when I read the thread's title...

I'm not a Dragonball fan, but this is gonna make a good laugh.
 
There...was already a live action Dragonball?

Must be ridiculously hilarious...
 
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