Dragon Ball Evolution caused damage that until now has been irreparable for fans of the work of Akira Toriyama. And although the reality is that there are much worse adaptations, the expectation that this film generated made the fall much worse.
What we did not see coming is that the same protagonist of the film, Justin Chatwin, Goku's interpreter, has accepted it in the message of condolences for Akira Toriyama.
According to a review by Anime Trends, Justin posted a message on social media in which he said goodbye to Akira Toriyama, after learning that he had died on March 1.
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“Rest in peace brother, I'm sorry we messed up that adaptation so much,” Chatwin said.
In the now distant 2009, Big Screen Productions, 20th Century Fox, directed by James Wong, produced by Stephen Chow and scripted by Ben Ramsey, came up with the idea of releasing Dragon Ball Evolution, the only regrettable film, into theaters. live action Dragon Ball made in Hollywood. Disowned, hated and detested by fans.
Justin Chatwin's performance as a strange Goku and also that of James Marsters as Piccolo, the villain of that film. Curiously, the Californian actor said that he always knew that the film would be a failure.
Marsters acknowledged that from the first day there were problems in the filming of the film: “They told me it was a 120 million movie with Stephen Chow producing, and Stephen Chow is the director of Kung Fusion and Shaolin Soccer, simply incredible movies. “They are fun, violent, scary… Everything you would need for Dragon Ball to work.”
From a personal point of view, he added: “Dragon Ball Z was important to me as a fatherso I was very interested when they gave me the role (of Piccolo).”
The worst was yet to come: “And suddenly I arrived in Durango, Mexico, and it is a 30 million movie in which Stephen Chow is only on paper to trick us and take us to the desert. They don't even want to pay for the double to be characterized as me, so they never used it”.
“They only dedicated themselves to putting cables on me. I still have a battered collarbone from filming, it was very unpleasant. But I still wanted my son to at least like my role,” said the actor.