By | Published August 14, 2008

Leaked action footage from 20th Century Fox’s upcoming DRAGONBALL movie has appeared on Youtube. Someone in a crowd of extras portraying spectators managed to get what looks like a cell phone camera recording of Chi Chi (Jamie Chung) and Mai (Eriko Tamura) fighting in an arena.

Note: Footage contains a possible spoiler by depicting the outcome of the fight.


Chi Chi (Jamie Chung) vs. Mai (Eriko Tamura) in leaked set footage from DRAGONBALL.

Keep in mind that what we’re seeing is raw footage and certainly not the perspective director James Wong had in mind. That said, the venue, costumes and fight moves look a little mundane.

Let’s face it, this franchise – originally a manga series and then animated – was never meant for live-action entertainment. In my mind, the only filmmaker capable of possibly handling the extreme action, plotting and hair is Lam Ngai-kai, director of mondo martial arts actioners STORY OF RICKY and PEACOCK KING. Instead we have James Wong who’s biggest directing gig to date is THE ONE, arguably the worst Jet Li movie since Tsui Hark’s flop THE MASTER.

Finally, someone caught up with Jamie Chung at this year’s Comic Con and got her to talk about DRAGONBALL and her role in ABC Family’s upcoming action miniseries SAMURAI GIRL.


While being interviewed at Comic Con ’08, Jamie Chung discusses her roles in DRAGONBALL and SAMURAI GIRL.

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  • Zenix

    I hope this movie will be good!!!!

  • Veiwer

    “Let’s face it, this franchise – originally a manga series and then animated – was never meant for live-action entertainment”

    Thank you, thats what ive been saying all this time.

    This film will flop, mark my words.

  • http://www.terrania.us Robotech_Master

    I hope that the failure of this movie (assuming it fails, I’m willing to be surprised) will not have bad consequences for the Airbender adaptation.

    (And I reiterate, Mark, you really need to find the time to obtain and watch Avatar: The Last Airbender. It will surprise you.)

  • Tyler Harris

    This looks like the worst piece of shit. WTF is up with the poster!!! This is going to be a huge trainwreck.

  • gqxsensazn

    One thing about the Dragonball movie…it has hot girls.

    Emmy Rossum, Jaime Chung, and Eriko Tamura.

    Other then that, the movie will be an abysmal failure. I’m a huge DB fan but am totally against this.

  • Peter

    This is a job for…the mule ;)

  • Peter

    hahahaha,

    my english is definitely awful!

  • Brian

    Looks like Goku? Give me a break.

  • jemerson

    oi eu sou do brasil q acho q o dragon ball sera demais muito bom sou um grande fã e estou muito ancioso abraços a todos

  • Tobey

    Well somebody tell that f**ken idiot of an interviewer that the movie is based on Dragonball, NOT Dragonball Z.