Brian Tyler Conducting Dragonball Evolution

the end sounds like spiderman

Sounds pretty good, but out of place for this particular movie (To be "fair" though this film does have very little relation to the original manga of anime). I absolutely love Bruce Faulconer's score for the american version of the anime (although his score wasn't really released until the ginyu saga). I think it totally set the tone and added so much more depth to our version of the anime. It'd be cool if they ever reboot this film and incorporate bruces score into a remix of sorts into future installments ah nostalgia. well here's to hoping.

source:http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/f/2009-02-19/23122383039.shtml

Stephen Chow was said to be dissatisfied with having no actual power as producer; Refuses to advertise "Dragonball"

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According to "Apple Daily", Hollywood live action movie "Dragonball Evolution" has already entered countdown for release. The movie had been anticipated by Asian moviegoers because it was based on a Japanese manga, produced by Stephen Chow, and starred by Chow Yun-Fat. However during the promotion in Taiwan and Korea no sign of Stephen Chow the producer was seen, only Yun-Fat was there to manage the scene. Some sources state that Stephen had repeatedly suggested revising the script, but they were all ignored, making him feel looked down upon and so refused to attend any promotion activities in protest.

The Fox sponsored, Stephen Chow produced, James Wong directed, Chow Yun-Fat and Justin Chatwin starred manga live action movie "Dragonball" will start screening next month, and Yun-Fat has already began his Asian promotion tour, but no sign of Stephen the producer was seen. Some US sources state that when the film began shooting, Stephen already had conflicts with the filmakers, so he was very unhappy with them.


Stephen is producer only in name and has no actually power, so he refused to do promotion

It was said that after Fox bought the rights to the Japanese manga "Dragonball", they had invited Stephen to be director, but he was busy with filming CJ7, so he only agreed to be producer, and Fox turned to James Wong to direct. At the start of filming, Stephen was really ethusiastic at the thought of cooperating with Yun-Fat, seen especially in his numerous suggestions to casting, scripting, make design and special effects during the planning. But these suggestions were all rejected by Fox executives, causing Stephen who enjoyed high prestige in the Hong Kong cinema industry to lose face. Since his first job as a Hollywood producer was only in name but has no actually power in decisions, Stephen decided no to attend any of the promotional activities for the movie in protest.


Stephen admitted that his suggestions had not been accepted, and did not have an actual role

A reported phoned Stephen to confirm, and he replied: "I am not able to attend the promotional activities because of the timing, and that promotion is not my job, so I already have other work scheduled". Regarding the rumours of him being producer without actual decision powers, Stephen said: "A movie has many types of producer, and I was the kind of advisory type of producer. Except for giving a few suggestions, I did not have an actual role". When asked if his suggestions were not accepted, he replied: "It's true they did not accept my decisions. Maybe they thought those weren't suitable, so they didn't use them. They have their own reasons for not accepting, but I won't mind, since it's the movie company who makes the decisions". When the matter of "Dragonball" author Toriyama Akira being dissatisfied that the movie isn't true to the original story, Stephen said: "Sorry, no comment".


Movie was criticized for lacking the original spirit

Ever since this movie adapted from the famous Japanese manga "Dragonball" began filming, it was criticized for lacking the original spirit, and even Toriyama Akira couldn't help to point out the movie did not look like his work at all.



The make did not fit the original

Kamesennin, the teacher of the main character Gokuu and played by Chow Yun-Fat, was bald, had a white beard, wears sunglasses, and looks strange in the original manga, but none of these traits were found on Yun-Fat.


Background was way off from the original

The original manga talks of Son Gokuu growing up in the mountains meeting the scientist girl Bulma, and then going off on the journey to seek the Dragonballs. But in the movie the Goku played by Justin Chatwin was a high school student who was told by his dying grandfather to gather the Dragonballs.


Artistic design had failed

The "Dragonball" manga and anime was loved by fans because of Toriyama Akira's colourful universe and interesting character designs, but the artistic design in the movie was dark and the camera leaned towards being grim, just like some regular Hollywood film.

NOOB-

Wow, well that certainly doesn't bode well. My expectations for this movie just dropped a bit.

I still think tho, that Chow is being a bit of a cry-baby lately.

ManOfIron, Tyler Bates did 300 not Brain Tyler.

you can hear tease of some score songs here http://www.colosseum.de/product_info.php/language/en/info/p2209_Dragonball-Evolution.html
its like 30 seconds of 5 songs.

Agree with several of your points, grif. Zimmer is very exciting. I have not heard this composer's music before this video. I felt like it was rather generic in some sections and wasn't original until about halfway through. Obviously, almost none of this will be fitting for the movie. Listening to Faulconer's compositions going along with DBZ for so many years makes this seem like it won't correlate with the movie's themes at all. I do believe that this score is fairly neat though. Some bright brass and cool string parts. Lacks any neat rhythms, but this may be a soundtrack I download. Maybe, I'll be listening for the music during DB:E than actually watching the music. I will confess to doing that during one of my later screenings of The Dark Knight.

wow intense score...it really makes me think of John Williams kinda that's pretty cool

hahaha woops lol got the names backwards! lol sorry... well good going for this new guy? lol god... total embarrassment! lol

Wow, that guy has an amazing orchestra as well. They are relatively small to get such a huge sound.

Excellent group of talent.