20th Century Fox has set Justin Chatwin (The Invisible, War of the Worlds) to play Goku and James Marsters ("Smallville," "Angel," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") as the villain Piccolo in Dragon Ball Z.

In the big screen adaptation, Goku is a powerful warrior who protects the Earth from an endless stream of rogues bent on dominating the universe and controlling the mystical objects from which the film takes its name.

Actor/writer/director Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle) is producing. Final Destination helmer James Wong will direct from a script he wrote. Ben Ramsey wrote an earlier draft.

The story is based on Akira Toriyama's popular manga that has spawned graphic novels, a long-running TV series and more than 25 video games. The Jump Comics division of Tokyo-based Shueisha published the "Dragon Ball" manga.

With shooting scheduled to begin later this month, Fox will bow the sci-fi/adventure worldwide Aug. 15. Chatwin has already begun training with 87Eleven, the stunt performance company behind the action sequences in The Matrix, The Bourne Supremacy,Mr. & Mrs. Smith and 300.

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A Dragon ball Z live-action movie?!
I'm there.

Goku

isnt piccolo that green alien dude? he was a "good guy" the last time i saw this, 5 years ago.

Yeah but at first he wasn't a good guy.

So they're really going to do a Dragon Ball Z movie I heard about this months ago but I thought they were just rumors but I guess they're not.I loved Dragon Ball Z,it was one of the best anime's.My favorite saga was the Android/Cell Saga.I'm interested to see who will play Gohan,Krillin,and Vegeta.

lmfao i think they should have picked someone a little more buff for Goku

the movie will be filmed in Mexico (according to some newspapers here)

oh god, are they serious? This show's peak was like 5 years ago! - _ -

Wow!

Bad choice for the actor who's playing Goku's character! ****in' stupid of them.

Anyway, James Marsters? I like it. Or maybe I'm saying that cause he's playing Spike on Buffy. Lol.

Interesting, definitely a must-see!!

The dude that's playing Piccolo is the same actor who plays Milton Fine on Smallville.And I agree they should have gotten someone better to play Goku.Maybe they should have gotten Jackie Chan to play Goku and Jet-Li to play Vegeta.I was expecting Samuel L. Jackson,Lawrence Fishburne,or Wesley Snipes to play Piccolo.But there current choice isn't bad.

yeah the goku - actor is not correct............switch him please.. btw cant wait 4 the movie...... yeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeeaeaeaaeaeae

Thats what they said about Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, and look how amazing that turned out.
I don't think there is any human being that can match the size of goku and not to mention one that doubles as a good actor. They're probably going to go for a more realistic approach with this movie.

I just hope it doesn't flop like DOA did.

Who's playing Piccolo???

cant wait for this im obsessed with this anime for the longest time now!

What's DOA?

^ Dead Or Alive. I quite like DOA actually. It was pretty fun action movie. But absolutely weak plot.