My dream: A Sealab 2021 movie!!

[superman complex]

The other night I had a big confusing, multilayered, inane dream like I usually have and in one part I was in a movie theater which had Sealab 2021: The Movie. Of course waking up was the hardest part, I suddenly realized what my waking life was missing.

And now I ask you in this world where Star Trek, The X-Files, Powerpuff Girls, Batman: TAS, Transformers, Doug, Rugrats, Pokémon and Fat Albert can get there own theatrical spin-offs why not Sealab?

And no I don't mean giving a bigger budget and making new animation, in my dream it was the same limited cut and paste animation. That's the vision! Anybody with me?

Once Powerpuff Girls The Movie makes way for Samurai Jack's movie we'll can buy an ad in Playbill or whatever magazine those industry people read. What do ya say?!

[Kataclysm5]

They have trouble making a 15 min episode let alone a movie. When the hell did Doug get his own movie?!?

[VashTheStampede]

Yes there was a Doug movie and I am glad to say I am one of the many whom did not see it. In relation to the Sealab movie, 15 minute shorts benefit the show but 2 hours or even 1 would ruin it. But then again their is going to be a DBZ live action movie :confused:

[randomguy]

I can't see a Sealab movie, although it might be amusing if they DID keep the crappy animation and release it to arthouse theaters. What I'd really like to see is a Home Movies movie. My suggestion for a title: "Can Home Movies Do This?!"

[PPRyan]

Originally posted by VashTheStampede
But then again their is going to be a DBZ live action movie :confused:

Woah now. Are you serious about a live action DBZ movie? I know there's an old dragonball movie (or a movie based loosely on the manga), but is there actually going to be a new live action movie made? If so, where did you find out about it from?

Oh yea, when did Fat Albert ever have a spin-off movie?
:D

[superman complex]

The Fat Albert this was half a joke. It was anncounced that the live action rights to Fat Albert have been obtained and are being worked on. It was the last cartoon to movie I could think of.

As for DBZ, there's all this speculation that they'll actually make this DBZ live acyion movie. Here's the FACT: 20th Century Fox has purchased the rights to produce a live action DBZ movie. This comes directly from the official press release from Fox.

However here also is a FACT: Fox might actually not make the movie. In Hollywood having the rights to produce something don't mean squat. There are thousands by millions of "right" and "options" float through Hollywood at this very minute that will never see the light of day. I guess it's possible that the DBZ movie will come to light but I honestly don't believe it.

There was an Ask John article at Animenation talking about this same subject. Here: http://www.animenation.net/news/aj-index.php3?id=463

[superman complex]

Originally posted by Kataclysm5
They have trouble making a 15 min episode let alone a movie.

Ya know, that's what Terry Gilliam said about South Park, but boy was he proven wrong. Of course Sealab isn't South Park. Or is that South Park isn't Sealab. Well they both start with an "S", so... whatever.

[VashTheStampede]

But also if you go to www.cinecon.com there is a story about the DBZ movie being fasttracked by Fox.

[superman complex]

multi-picture franchise like Star Wars

This is the most awful thing! I'm not a born pessimist but I'm telling you right now I'll never believe this film will be good even when I see it. To hope that it will have sequels is a long shot, but claim it will be a franchise like Star Wars! Yes, I understand they’re comparing it to Star Wars only in the context of it having many sequels, but it’s still the most ludicrous thing I’ve ever heard. I’d be like saying it was going to be a multi-picture franchise like The Godfather. There’s just no comparasion.

[Beat]

In the end there will be no DBZ movie, it will probably crash and burn like the proposed Superman movie with Nicholas Cage.

[Kataclysm5]

I think Haley Joe Osmond should play Gohan, i smell an Oscar.

[Jake]

There already is a live action DBZ movie.

[superman complex]

Yes, many of us are aware of the Hing Kong Cinema live action "adaptation" of the early Dragon ball manga. If you haven’t check out some info on it: http://www.badmovies.org/movies/dragonball/index.html

"Adaptation" was, however, encased in quotation marks because there's a funny thing about that movie. It's not a direct adaptation of DB, it's a big, fat, blatant rip-off. That's actually what it is. The HK movie industry has a funny why of taking well known franchises like Street Fighter or Dragon Ball, changing the names and releasing a movie that was easy to come up with and cost no royalties. The original Chinese version of that movie was something like Dragonpearls. The US DVD was only named Dragon Ball so as to cash it on DBZ popularity.

This new DBZ movie we are talking about is a optioned and payed for Hollywood USA produced DBZ movie with all the legal rights. Not the cheesy, unofficial HK rip-off.

[VashTheStampede]

This new DBZ movie we are talking about is a optioned and payed for Hollywood USA produced DBZ movie with all the legal rights.

But with the same great quality as the HonG Kong version, I hope :rolleyes:

[randomguy]

I love the HK one. It's hilarious. 20th Century Fox could do than worse than to take the campy angle.

[Ajax]

Yeah sure buddy keep dreaming



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[noclist]

I would love a Sealab movie, crappy animation and all. I'd rather see a Home Moves movie though. Yes, crappy animation and all.