Dragonball Evolution: James Marsters and Justin Chatwin want sequels

THERE'S been a lot of negativity levelled at upcoming movie Dragonball Evolution. I've seen the trailer and thought it looked like great fantasy fun but Fox's adaptation of the manga, anime and video game franchise seems to have irritated hardcore fans.

I'm not a hardcore fan by any means, so I'm just judging what I see in the trailer and then what little I know of the source material. And I can't really imagine this could be made into some hyper-realistic, darkly gritty epic like The Dark Knight.

Despite fans claiming Fox has dropped the dragonball, so to speak, the stars of the film are hoping people like it enough to warrant further instalments.

James Marsters, who plays evil Lord Piccolo, said: "I hope [the movie does well] because my character only really gets interesting in the second film, I mean, he's interesting now but his journey is really developed in the script for the second movie.

Speaking to IGN, Marsters (pictured left as Lord Piccolo) said: "I've been signed to three movies, but I would like to make seven of them.

"You could just pretty much paint by numbers using the wealth of source material to easily get the seven films. There's that much there."

Co-star Justin Chatwin, who plays Goku, said: "There's a whole generation of kids waiting to be introduced to Dragonball, so this first movie is really important for that.

"I mean the main plot is the battle between Piccolo and Goku, but this first film still serves to introduce the characters and where they're from and what their deals are. And so to cover that ground really takes up most of the first movie."

He continued: "I know what they have in store for the second one and it's really cool! It's more in the vein of the Dragonball saga... it goes into other places, there's other characters, other fighters and there's a lot of action that is just really awesome.

"It actually goes more into Dragon Ball Z land and it's just really exciting. It goes into the whole legend of Dragonball. I cant really say more than that, but it made me think this is a cool franchise to be a part off because there's so much we haven't shown yet."

The film has already opened in Asia. It's released in the Uk on April 8 and in the US on April 10.

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