Monday
30Mar2009
'Dragonball' Stars Already Talking Sequels
Monday, March 30, 2009 at 10:27PM
There's getting ahead of yourself and then there's saying you'd like to do five to seven
Dragonball movies. Cast members
Justin Chatwin and
James Marsters, who play Goku and Piccolo in the upcoming Dragonball Evolution, are already talking about sequels even though the rest of the world is talking about it possibly being the worst movie of the year.
"I know what they have in store for the second one and it's really cool! It's more in the vein of the Dragonball saga... it goes into other places, there's other characters, other fighters and there's a lot of action that is just really awesome."I really don't think the amount of material available is at issue. If you know anything about Dragonball, you know how expansive it is, maybe even too much so. The problem might be that it's just not cut out to be a movie, or at least to be the movie they've made. The film has done well overseas ($21 million in two weeks), but the true measure of success for American productions is almost always the domestic market. And, to their credit, audiences in the U.S. have mostly avoided bad movies this year. Street Fighter was a bomb and Pink Panther 2 made less than half the amount of its predecessor. So, to me, that's the major hurdle Dragonball has to clear. If it's bad, I doubt it will generate crowds for very long, and if that's the case, will Fox stay committed to a project that could have that many sequels?
Reader Comments (1)
It's like they [Chatwin, Marsters, Fox] spit in your face, then try to rub it in your eyes afterward.