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Emmy Rossum Joins ‘Dragonball’
Posted by Michelle Graham (michelle@filmschoolrejects.com) on December 17, 2007
Emmy Rossum (The Day After Tomorrow, The Phantom of the Opera, Poseidon) is the latest actress to join the cast of James Wong’s Dragonball, a live action version of Dragonball Z. According to JoBlo, Rossum will play Bulma, a girl whose father’s Dragon Ball is stolen by the evil villain Piccolo. Piccolo, played by James Marsters (he of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame), is trying to capture all 7 Dragon Balls to conquer Earth, while Goku battles him to get to the Balls first and save the Earth.
Way (way) back, around when The Day After Tomorrow was released, there was this huge buzz around Rossum. She was the next “It girl”, the one to watch, Hollywood’s upcoming darling. Somehow, that hype all disappeared, funnily around the time she managed to make the fantastic role of Christine in The Phantom of the Opera into a wet dishcloth on stage (not including when she sang). If she’s hoping to hit back against the newer it girls, such as Even Rachel Wood and Ellen Page, she has one odd sense of what’s a break-out role. Dragonball is the big screen adaptation of the odd anime cartoon from Japan, Dragonball Z. I’ve never *quite* gotten that show, but frow what I gather, it involves flying fights, and throwing spheres of energy. Doesn’t quite sound like something to challenge the likes of Juno, Hard Candy and Across the Universe.
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One Comment
December 18th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
You don’t quite ‘get’ the show? You won’t need to. This movie’s probably gonna suck anyway. Goku, the main character of the show, is modeled after Jackie Chan. Dragonball is like a fantasy Kung Fu flick with cartoon characters. The story isn’t as important as the action. The action drives it. Maybe that’s why you don’t get ‘get’ the show because you’re not an impressionable kid with a big imagination and a thirst to see guys flying around kicking butt.