Actress Emmy "The Phantom of the Opera" Rossum has joined the cast of 20th Century Fox's live-action adaptation of sci-fi Japanese comic "Dragon Ball Z". Other members of the cast include Eriko "Heroes" Tamura, Joon Park, Justin Chatwin, James Marsters and Jamie Chung.
Focusing on a monkey-tailed alien in search of seven 'dragon balls", "Dragon Ball" and "Dragon Ball Z" were collected into the single 42-volume series "Tankobon" after the manga was serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump", 1984 to 1995.
In 2004, the manga was re-released in the 34 volume collection "Kanzenban".