Dragonball Live Action Movie has a "Green Light" RUN!!!

just ran through my email and found this early sent around 4:50ish AM on Thursday and I  quote from the lovable Hanyou himself on what im bout to post.

"*CENSORED* <you,him, it, whomever one wants to say> to hell"

'Dragonball' Movie Greenlit
Production Starts This Year


November 14, 2007
Twentieth Century Fox is moving ahead with the production of a live action Dragonball movie. Justin Chatwin (who played Tom Cruise's disaffected teenage son in War of the Worlds) is already in training with the stunt performance company 87Eleven (The Matrix, 300, The Bourne Supremacy) for the role of Goku, while James Marsters (Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer) will portray the villainous Piccolo. James Wong (a writer/exec on the X-Files) is directing with Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer) producing. Production is slated to begin later this year with the goal of an August 15th, 2008 release.

Akira Toriyama's Dragonball is Japan's most successful cultural export of all time -- it has generated more than $4 billion in merchandising sales. More than a decade after DBZ's first home video release in the U.S., FUNimation's Dragonball Z Season Sets are still among the top 5 anime releases of the year.

www.thedragonshorde.com

Well, here's my input.  I'm a pretty diehard DBZ fan, it was the first serial anime that I ever watched, and though it has it's downfalls no one can argue that its pretty damned epic when it comes right down to it.  I think I'm with the general consesus that this will either be amazing, or awful.  Both would be acceptable because sometimes things can be so bad their good simply for the amusement factor, and amazing is well...amazing right?

I think the technology exists for them to do it right as stated earlier, however, will they have the budget/vision to get the job done?  Personally I'm going to have issues with the fact that the voices won't be the same.  Of course, if you're a fan of the japanese subs then the voices won't matter much to you since everyone in the original sounds like a twelve year old girl anyways.  One of the only anime's in all of time that I have ever enjoyed the english dubs over the japanese originals.  The voices for the show were so good, to me at least, that hearing anyone else's voice (especially Piccolo) as any of the main characters is going to be strange.  Which means the rest of the movie is going to have to be fairly mind boggling for me to get behind it.

Either way, terrible or epic, I'll certainly go to see it.