In 2002 Akira Toriyama told the Hollywood Reporter a bit on writing Dragon Ball and also Hollywood adaptations of comics/manga.

“I have always drawn my manga with the desire to create something unique to comics, something that can only be expressed in the form of comics. I felt that if I didn’t do so, the reason for the existence of my comics will become weak. But recent movies have surprised us by entering such territory that used to belong only to comics with wonderful technology and wisdom.”

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Old IGN reports stated several interesting and promising rumors for the live action Dragon Ball movie. These were all reported back in 2003 and will now be included in this new edition of our classic news articles.

The first report was that the film was initially planned to be four movies. Not only that but each movie was supposed to be over 3 hours long (something I originally expected to be done when it came to a live action DB movie) Here’s an excerpt from IGN.

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Back in 2002, when 20th Century FOX announced that a live action Dragon Ball Z movie would soon be in production, a lot of fan material meant to promote the film surfaced on the internet. Many of this material usually used the quote “All They Need is Seven” in one way or another. The poster shown to the right is where that originated, and that certain piece even showed up in an article at IGN saying it could actually possibly be the work of FOX. They question whether or not they are already promoting the DBZ movie.

Here is an excerpt from IGN…

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This is the second edition of our classic news articles. This portion gets into how FUNimation was originally set to work with 20th Century FOX on Dragonball Evolution.

The Vice President of FUNimation has been talking about his plans for the Dragon Ball Z live-action film that is currently being developed at Fox.  VP and producer Daniel Cocanougher says, “FUNimation is very excited to be working with Fox in their production of a live-action Dragon Ball Z feature film. Fox plans to place this movie on a fast-track production schedule, and may have a movie released as early as Fall 2003 or Summer 2004.”

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