Editorials > Dragon Ball casting begins...with who!?

Well, this confirms that Fox's upcoming adaptation of Dragon Ball is picking and choosing little things from each version of the manga/anime staple for the big screen. But this is bordering on insane. 

The main cast has been confirmed at The Hollywood Reporter–we're still crossing our fingers for James Kyson Lee's Yamcha: Justin Chatwin, he of The Chumscrubber and The Invisible, will play Goku, the hapless martial artist who discovers he is an alien sent to destroy the Earth but wound up with amnesia and opts to protect his new home. The lead villain?

Why, none other than James Marsters, best known to thousands of screaming Buffy fangirls as "The Blonde Johnny Rotten Vampire." Or, Spike.  And who will he be?

Piccolo. The green-skinned alien who growls and can regenerate limbs, originally believed to be a demon in the first series. Here it seems he'll be part of the alien force, we assume, that is coming to finish Goku's job on Earth.

James Wong (Final Destination, The One) is confirmed as the director with Stephen Chow serving as a producer. 

The plot is currently anyone's guess, as the alien invasion plot comes from Dragon Ball Z and Piccolo attempting to rule the world goes all the way back to the first Dragon Ball. More than that, how is James Marsters supposed to attact his in-built Buffydom fanbase if he's slathered in green bodypaint?  Anyway, we can assume that the dragon balls are used in some way. And yes, we can't wait to snicker at the teaser trailers advertising:

DRAGON BALL

GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL.

Put your favorite Ball ideas below in the comments. 

edit: Ah, also the worldwide release date has already been set for August 15, 2008. A paltry writer's strike cannot stop this film's power level. It's clearly over 9000.