Live-Action Dragon Ball Z Saga - /tv/ (#213009454) [Archived: 480 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/23/2025, 9:31:12 AM No.213009454
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After watching Superman, I realized that a big-budget, high-quality Dragon Ball Z movie is actually possible. The question is, will we get it in our lifetime? How would you approach it? How many movies would you make?

For me, I’d plan 9 films in total.
For the first trilogy, the film structure would look like this:
>Movie 1: Pilaf and King Piccolo with Kid Goku.
>Movie 2: Teen Goku vs. Piccolo Jr.
>Movie 3: Adult Goku vs. Vegeta.
After that, I’d move on to the big sagas—Frieza, Cell, and Buu—spanning the remaining 6 films.

The only major difference would be recasting the role of Goku at key points, which wouldn’t be a big deal since Lucas did it in the Star Wars prequels when there was a 10-year gap between Episode 1 and Episode 2.

What do you think? Would this approach work for a live-action Dragon Ball Z series?
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 9:35:42 AM No.213009517
>>213009454 (OP)
nice
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 9:37:35 AM No.213009541
>>213009454 (OP)
>optional prequel shit
Maybe if you want a fucking flop
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 9:46:25 AM No.213009667
>>213009541
You can't do dragon ball z if you don't do the dragon ball story first
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 9:48:25 AM No.213009696
>>213009454 (OP)
Goku is White, My dude.
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 9:49:49 AM No.213009719
>>213009696
Goku is asian anon
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 10:04:33 AM No.213009926
>>213009454 (OP)
>2 movies spent on the optional pedophilic prequel
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 10:08:25 AM No.213009988
>>213009926
>optional
Nope
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 10:10:32 AM No.213010027
>>213009719
nta, but he's right, Goku is white, his race even become blonde supermen with blue eyes.
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 10:12:25 AM No.213010064
>>213009454 (OP)
>Movie 1: Goku with his dick out molesting Bulma (stay true to source material)
>Movie 2: Teen Goku with his dick out molesting Chichi (stay true to source material)
>Movie 3: Adult Goku molesting Vegeta (inclusivity and gay representation)
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 10:51:22 AM No.213010557
Bruh
Bruh
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>>213009696
>Japanese manga loosely based on a Chinese myth
>he's white though
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 11:04:25 AM No.213010725
>>213009454 (OP)
Saiyan, Namek, and Freiza are the trilogy and it works perfectly that way. Starting the 2nd movie with Vegeta healing at Frieza's base and Goku healing at the hospital on Earth would be some absolute Rocky II type kino.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 11:05:43 AM No.213010741
The Saiyans will never look right as Asians, sorry not sorry.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 11:06:24 AM No.213010749
>>213009454 (OP)
>For the first trilogy--
>First two films have nothing to do with the third.
Cool "trilogy" I love the thematic linking here.
Words have meaning you fucking retard.
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 11:07:15 AM No.213010762
>>213010557
It's fiction sweety, he can be whatever the producers want him to be, pissbaby.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 11:07:30 AM No.213010767
>>213010749
>trilogy
>story evolves gradually with each film as Goku grows into a man with a family
You are retarded if you don't understand basic shit like this. Kys
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 11:07:44 AM No.213010774
>>213010027
They are a half-monkey slave race that turns into literal raging gorillas
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 11:10:13 AM No.213010807
>>213009454 (OP)
>Live action of a series reliant on fights that only work in an animated format

Are there really people retarded enough to ask for this?
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 11:15:32 AM No.213010886
>>213010767
Holy fucking gotten to.
The hard pivot of magic kung fu karate mystic shit to aliens and power levels would be a horrible way to end a "trilogy".
The fight with Piccolo Jr. is the conclusion of Goku's character arc.
All of Z is a sequel following his son. Making the Saiyan arc the conclusion of your trilogy is extremely retarded. It's a complete tone shift and has nothing to do with what comes before.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 11:21:47 AM No.213010987
>>213010774
Alright, you've convinced me, they're albino africans.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 11:35:42 AM No.213011148
>>213009454 (OP)
Why don't you just make it with AI, bro? LOL
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 11:38:23 AM No.213011177
>>213009454 (OP)
Kys
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 12:23:30 PM No.213011758
>>213011177
No
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 12:25:13 PM No.213011777
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>>213010557
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 1:16:53 PM No.213012422
>>213010807
I actually found a simple solution for retards asking for a db live action: think about dr slump getting a live action adaptation that properly adapts jokes and it's funny. If you can't translate drslump into real actors, then forget about db
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 1:17:56 PM No.213012431
>>213011777
Shut up nigger
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 1:18:13 PM No.213012435
>>213009454 (OP)
9 films of some retards powering up for hour after hour, no thanks
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 1:19:49 PM No.213012462
>>213011777
>just because they portray themselves more beautiful in anime and manga it doesn't mean they are asian! They are le white
Lol, they are asian anon
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 1:21:41 PM No.213012493
Why do Americans never properly translate Kami's name?
Some jokes in the anime make no sense if you don't call him God.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 1:24:38 PM No.213012543
don
don
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>>213011777 (checked)
>>213012462
Anime/manga characters are hapas
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 1:24:42 PM No.213012544
>>213009454 (OP)
I have the hairline to play Bejita
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 1:25:24 PM No.213012555
>>213012435
still more entertaining than star wars
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 1:38:12 PM No.213012736
>>213012543
No
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 1:44:21 PM No.213012848
>>213009454 (OP)
kys spic
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 2:47:45 PM No.213013801
Goku is Asian but only at base
when he goes SSJ he becomes Aryan