Finding themselves in a once-in-a-lifetime journey, Goku, Bulma, and martial artist master Muten Roshi must find the Dragon Balls before the evil emperor Pilaf finds them and uses them to take over the world. However, the boy's life would change when a young girl named Bulma sudenly comes in search of the seven Dragon Balls, which, when gathered together, can invoke the wish-granting dragon Shenron. A sequel, titled Dragon Ball: Krillin's Adventure, would be released on 2028 to similar critical and commercial success.įar away in the mountians of Mount Paozu, a young monkey-tailed boy named Goku is taking care of the dearest posetion of his late grandfather, the fourth-star Dragon Ball, all while believing that it has his grandfather's soul. The film would become the first entry in a live-action cinematic universe based on both Dragon Ball and the Dr. The film would also earn Academy Award and British Academy Film Awards nominations for its visual effects. The film would be released on February 16, 2025, and would became a critical and commercial success, grossing 977 million dollars over a budget of 177 millions, and being praised for its direction, screenplay, emotional depth, faithfulness to the source material, humor, performances (particularly Seethi, Bennet, Chan, and Gottfried's), visual effects, and music, with many critics praising it as an improvement over Evolution, and some even calling it one of the best films based on an anime/manga. The film's visual effects team would create new systems in order to create visual effects that resembled the original anime's designs. In order to avoid developing a film similar to Evolution, which was highly criticized for its unfaithfulness to the franchise, the production team would develop the film similar to Disney's live-action remakes of animated films, while the team would adapt specifically the franchise's first saga in order to make sure audiences unfamiliar with the original manga would understand the film's events. Plans for a live-action adaptation of Dragon Ball would be announced at the D23 2021, along with the hirings of James Gunn as director, co-producer, and co-screenwriter, Tom McCarthy, Steven Spielberg, and Michael Arndt as co-screenwriters, and Spielberg, Kevin Feige, and Akira Toriyama as producers, while the cast and additional screenwriters joining during the next 4 years. The film's score would be composed by Henry Jackman and Mark Mancina, while Phil Collins would write and perform new songs for the filmĭisney obtained the film rights of the Dragon Ball franchise after acquiring 20th Century Fox, who previously produced the critically panned live-action film Dragonball Evolution. The film would star Neel Sethi, Chloe Bennet, Jackie Chan, Simu Liu, Ming-Na Wen, and the voices of Dana Snyder, Bradley Cooper, Paul Rudd, Mark Hamill, Clancy Brown, Josh Gad, Christopher Sabat, and Chris Cason, with the last two reprising their roles from the original anime's Funimation dub as Shenron and Shu, respectively, while Jeffrey Wright would narrate the film. Jordan, Kevin Feige, Steven Spielberg, and the franchise's creator Akira Toriyama, while the film's screenplay would be written by Justin Marks, Gunn, Chrsitina Hudson, and Pete Docter, from an story by Gunn, Hudson, Marks, Docter, Spielberg, Tom McCarthy, Michael Arndt, and Phil Lord & Christopher Miller. Gunn would also produce the film alongside Michael B. It would be a live-action adaptation of the Japanese franchise of the same name, and the second official live-action adaptation of the franchise after Fox's Dragonball Evolution. Slump: Arale's First Live-action Movieĭragon Ball would be a 2025 American-Japanese road buddy fantasy action comedy-drama film directed by James Gunn and produced by Walt Disney Pictures, Toei Company, Outlier Society Productions, Amblin Entertainment, and Troll Court Entertainment.