INTERVIEW YOUR SAY
Retro Editor Paul Monopoli has been very busy!
Interview After my interview with Johnny I had a bit of time to chill and relax. Then along came Buffy star James Marsters. Being a Dragon Ball fan, I just had to ask him about his recent apology for Dragon Ball Evolution, as well being Spike on TV and in video games. Paul: So, join me now at Supanova 2017, it’s Spike the Vampire, James Marsters. How’re you doing? James: I’m really good man. Paul: Pleasure to meet you. James: Thanks man. Paul: Now, a few months ago, I noticed that… it might have been a year ago now, you actually made a formal apology for Dragon Ball Evolutions. James: Yes, because the film sucked and we all know this. Paul: I haven’t seen it… James: Well in that case it was really good. If you haven’t seen it it was fab. No, it was a bad movie. I’m a Dragon Ball fan and it actually helped me raise my son. It led to a lot of good conversations about manhood, because the lead character in Dragon Ball Z is a guy named Goku who is peaceful and humble, goofy and does not want to get in a fight, but if you attack
his family he will burn you alive, and that’s a great man as far as I’m concerned. I think that we’re protectors and then there’s another character, especially in the early Dragon Ball, called Vegeta who is an overgrown boy in a mans body, and he’s short for the metaphor and he’s constantly causing chaos so he can prove his manhood, not understanding that he is a man and he can just relax and be peaceful. So it was a great conversation starter about all that when my son was just coming into his young teens. So I signed on to the film without a script and that told me it was a $130 million picture and Stephen Chow was producing. Stephen wrote and directed Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer which was perfect. He’s a perfect person for Dragon Ball because, especially Kung Fu Hustle was goofy, scary and mystical and had all the elements that you would need. And I got down to the deserts of Durango Mexico and found out that it was a $30 million picture and Stephen Chow was nowhere to be seen. He was just on paper to fool us all down. Paul: Ohhhhhh… James: And Chow Yun Fat and I were just cursing out in the sand, like ‘I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS’. And so yeah. Paul: I believe there was a news report about you getting in touch with