Emmy Rossum spoke to MTV about her role as Bulma in the upcoming Dragonball movie. According to Rossum, fans should be pleasantly surprised with the way the property has been translated by James Wong into a live-action project.

“When I signed on to the project, I was a big fan of the anime and knew [Bulma] as the iconic blue, bobbed character and wanted to stay true to that — but we also wanted to make it realistic,” explained Rossum. “So in keeping with the director and what the studio really wanted, we adapted her look to be a little more realistic and human, and little bit more believable for contemporary day. She’s pretty bad-ass, but still quirky and fun, and kind of ridiculous in the way she is in the anime.”

That doesn’t mean the legions of “Dragonball” faithful aren’t far from her mind, though. Rossum said her first encounter with “Dragonball” was the Saturday morning cartoon, only to realize that “it’s really so much more than that — from the comic to [the cartoon] to the whole franchise and brand, so many people feel such a closeness to these characters.”

“So, it’s a little bit stressful to play a character that so many people hold close to their hearts,” she admitted, “but you just hope you do it justice and they like it.”

I’m still waiting on the first trailer to be released, which will be soon apparently. Then Dragonball fans can judge for themselves whether they expect to be pleasantly surprised.

Three new promo photos have surfaced online for James Wong’s Dragonball. Click to enlarge!

Dragonball will be out in April 2009 and stars stars Justin Chatwin, James Marsters, Jamie Chung, Emmy Rossum, Eriko Tamura, Joon Park, Chow Yun-Fat, Texas Battle, Randall Duk Kim and Ernie Hudson.

Hoy Cinema got a new hi-res image from Dragonball. It was so hi-res that it took up half of my computer space. However, my pet parrot Steve talked me through the whole resizing process and all is well again. The image shows Justin Chatwin casually holding a Dragon Ball while Emmy Rossum has a ‘my hair looks ridiculous’ face.

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DBtheMovie have posted more magazine scans of characters from the upcoming Dragonball movie. The scans show Justin Chatwin as Goku, Emmy Rossum as Bulma, Chow Yun-Fat as Master Roshi, Joon Park as Yamcha and Jamie Chung as Chi-Chi and come from the July 7th issue of Japan’s Roadshow magazine.

So far images like these are all we have seen, and I am not too impressed, but they aren’t exactly bad either. I’ll wait until I see a trailer before I judge, I just hope it doesn’t end up looking too cheesy.

Up until this point all we have seen of the upcoming Dragonball movie are a couple of set images. We have also had the lovely Emmy Rossum updating her Myspace Blog telling us how amazing everything is on set, but that’s not enough for us. We want things to look at, and today is that day!

/Film got their hands on two teaser posters for the movie, however I will only be posting one because the other is in Japanese, and they are both the same visually. Check it out below!