Dragonball Movie's Piccolo Revealed, Final Nail Driven Into Coffin
Posted at 10:06 AM Sep 03, 2008
I'm not going to spoil James Marsters as Piccolo's appearance for whatever of you poor, deluded souls still have some semblance of hope for the live-action Dragonball movie, but suffice to say, the above movie poster is a potent clue. Hit the jump for the big surprise.
Ha! The surprise is that Piccolo really does look just like Powder, the albino/Robert Sean Leonard Sean Patrick Flannery smash hit of 19-something -or-other. I'm not at all concerned about the lack of head tentacles, actually, but I was trying to figure out if Piccolo actually had a slight green tint to him, and then I realized the fact I was debating it means that someone has failed spectacularly. Again—DB fans want the regular characters with their regular looks. I don't think a bone-white Piccolo is going to appeal to a broader audience than a green one. So why the fuck bother changing this stuff?
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Well, I think he looks pretty awesome -- less like Powder and more like the Remans from Star Trek: Nemesis. Not that the Remans were awesome in any way, really.
And I'm sure I'm pissing off DB fans everywhere, but I always thought the turban looked stupid.
Posted 09/03/2008 at 07:35:07 AMSean Patrick Flannery, not Robert Sean Leonard.
Posted 09/03/2008 at 07:40:42 AMA crappy cartoon with a geek following made into terrible film.
Happens all the time.
Posted 09/03/2008 at 07:42:14 AMI wish I cared about the source material enough for these things to bother me, because boy, are people pissed!
Still looks like a fun time to me so far. I anxiously await a trailer.
Posted 09/03/2008 at 08:13:12 AMTrain wrecks are so fun to watch. I don't see what the problem with a green tint would be, but it does seem everything in Dragonball is a problem for them.
Posted 09/03/2008 at 08:22:19 AMHmm...it could be this is just to show the sculpt, and he'll be turned green afterwards. But what have they done to the head o.O? James Marsters has those crazy cheekbones that only really needed a skullcap and some antennae (and pointy ears) not the giant prosthetic-wrinkly thing he's got on there.
On a barely-related note, the first pic looks to me like what would happen if Dr. Frank N. Furter and Freeza had a baby. :p
Posted 09/03/2008 at 09:17:33 AMI asked Marsters how he prepared for the Piccolo role, and he said he'd actually already watched all of the episodes with his son, who is a huge fan. I reserve full judgment until the official trailer comes out--no telling what they'll do in post--but surely he would have noticed the "not green" thing.
Posted 09/03/2008 at 10:44:24 AMUgh... So not sexy, Mr. Piccolo.
Posted 09/03/2008 at 11:00:04 AMActually I think these are stills from the trailer.
Posted 09/03/2008 at 11:28:24 AMBad as they show the movie will be, at least now there is more ground that this flick will suck and that the whole world should boycott it like Japan
Well with the way they've been treating comic book movies recently, maybe they'll just reboot it if the first one sucks so bad. Dragonball looks as if it's going to be much like the Super Mario Bros. movie with no attention paid to the source material except for the names.
Posted 09/03/2008 at 12:22:27 PMI'm not sure why they didn't just make him green. It's not like that's any more weird than him looking like Gerard Way. The movie might be good, but what good is Dragonball Z without all the weird stuff? That's what made it cool in the first place!
Posted 09/03/2008 at 02:15:11 PMOh man rage.
Posted 09/03/2008 at 02:24:43 PMwonder if hes white due to all the green screen CG that''ll surely accompany the film?
either way. FAIL
Posted 09/03/2008 at 02:35:51 PMIm glad Billy Corgan can still get work.
Posted 09/03/2008 at 02:48:24 PMIs it too much to ask for a green Piccolo? :lol:
Posted 09/03/2008 at 04:33:30 PMIs it too much to ask for a green Piccolo? :lol:
Posted 09/03/2008 at 04:33:41 PMIf he was green, he'd look like Jim Carrey as The Mask.
Is that what you want? Is it?!
Posted 09/03/2008 at 05:07:56 PMfuck this movie.
Posted 09/03/2008 at 07:49:59 PMNot quite Piccolo to me. Reminds me of Spike though.
Posted 09/03/2008 at 09:59:52 PMKain, gone bald.
This is absolutely nothing similar to Piccolo. Well, except for the bald head.
Posted 09/04/2008 at 10:58:51 PMThis movie still might be cool in its own right. I don't know why they made all these changes, but they seem to at least have a plan. I don't like seeing my childhood smashed to pieces, but this could be like X-Men and really surprise everyone by how the characters are still the same, they just look different.
Posted 09/05/2008 at 01:21:27 AMA Better Cast:
Piccolo: Jimmy Jean-Louis
Posted 09/05/2008 at 03:01:36 PMGohan: Brandon Soo Hoo
Trunks: Ken Leung
Master Roshi: Nick Nolte
Vegeta: Zachary Quinto
What the- he looks like Freezer minus the clown makeup!
We feel cheated! We want our money back!
..Or at least we want our sanity back! Yeah, that's it!
Posted 10/31/2008 at 11:06:00 PM