How do we not have a (proper) Dragonball Z movie yet?

Submitted by TheCaramelMan t3_1273glh in movies

With Hollywood always utilising existing and adapting popular IP’s, how do we not have a real DBZ film?

It’s a property with a huge following, vast story and iconic characters.

The less said about that dogshit trash Dragonball Evolution movie the better. But even with that shit adaptation, both The Last Airbender and Dungeons & Dragons still managed to get re-adaptations even with the sour tastes the original adaptations left with audiences.

Give us our DBZ movies damn it!!

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Upstairs-Paper-2079 t1_jeccvii wrote

I think it’s budget would have to be massive, and no production company is willing to gamble that considering how anime to live action tends to be.

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EntertainmentNo2044 t1_jecdfzf wrote

Several reasons. One the first "attempt" was so bad that I doubt Akira Toriyama will approve a live action DBZ movie anytime soon. Second, DBZ is a hard property to adapt. It's a sequel to a decidedly less popular series, and one that includes a lot of backstory and characters from that series. So you're essentially starting in the middle of an extremely long story.

Finally, the biggest reason is simply cost. A live action DBZ movie's CGI would put the budget around Avatar level.

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Blade_Trinity3 t1_jecidej wrote

I think it's already been done in the format it is best suited for.

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iambluest t1_jecl9ox wrote

No producer is going to produce a movie with 30 minutes of power up screaming.

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farmerarmor t1_jecm3k5 wrote

I don’t see how a “live action” cartoon could improve on the cartoon we already have.

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kazh t1_ject9x0 wrote

A competent show running crew has to get the ear of whoever can sign off on the project and those who can sign off on that have to have a good sense of who's competent.

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Xenu66 t1_jecxmuf wrote

There are a number of animated dragon ball movies and that's just the format it's best suited for

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dornwolf t1_jedhr4m wrote

Eh let’s just stick with the anime movies we get. Nothing Hollywood can do could to top that

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forestrangerloddy t1_jedofv0 wrote

Trying to adapt something with so much lore and action and everything that ran for so long would take a series of movies with a massive budget and if they just made one movie it would be impossible to fit the full story into it, and even if you just adapted one saga like Freiza, Androids/Cell or Buu it would make die hard fans mad that it wasent in order or things were skipped and changed. The Anime being so long at over 250 episodes just for Z gave the story everything it needed that your standard hollywood movie just cant do, and thats why evolution turned out like it did.

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Own_Board_8332 t1_jefgh4x wrote

The shameless DBZ movie killed any hope for a good dbz movie

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