"The Sankei Shimbun paper has posted the first poster from the Dragonball live-action film that features a main character on Friday. The poster portrays Canadian actor Justin Chatwin (War of the Worlds, The Invisible, Lost television series), who stars as Son Goku, in his familiar orange gi martial arts uniform complete with the kanji for kame ("turtle" for his mentor Master Roshi or Kame Sennin) on the back."

"Just as in the previous teaser poster, the new poster's Japanese text reads when translated: "The legend comes to life." The new poster also adds the following text: "Opens worldwide at maximum speed on March 13, 2009."

"Twentieth Century Fox signed director James Wong (Final Destination, X-Files television series, The One) to adapt Akira Toriyama's shonen fighting manga. Viz Media publishes the original manga in North America, while Funimation distributes the anime version."

Source: 1st Live-Action Dragonball Poster with Son Goku Posted - Anime News Network



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I will say, the poster isn't that bad. Goku's costume looks a lot better than I expected.

Fricken hell! It's the right symbol too!

That actually looks better than the one on the anime, but who the hell did Justin play in Lost!?

Edit: A nobody, just appeared in one ep.

Hmmm...maybe I got a bad impression from the screenshots i've seen before. This looks half-decent, while the pics I saw before looked like all they did was walk into the studio, take pics for 2 minutes, then left.

It's good that they've got the same sort of outfit for him. He's going to have to seriously buff up as the story progresses though. Right now it's fine because he's portraying the Teen version but I don't think a lanky adult Goku is going to cut it.