At Cinemacon on Wednesday, Dreamworks Animation revealed that Mike Mitchell (The Lego Film 2: The Second Half, Trolls, Shrek Without end After) will direct and Stephanie Ma Stine (She-Ra and the Princesses of Energy, story artist on Tips on how to Practice Your Dragon: The Hidden World) will co-direct Kung Fu Panda 4.
The brand new characteristic, scheduled to hit theaters on March 8, 2024, would be the first theatrical KFP film in eight years and can, it feels like, choose up the place Netflix’s latest animated sequence Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight left off.
What we all know thus far:
- Mitchell is returning to the KFP franchise having produced Kung Fu Panda 3 and labored as a narrative advisor on the primary movie. Ma Stine, who directed episodes of Dreamworks’ She-Ra and the Princesses of Energy, is making her characteristic directorial debut.
- Jack Black, who just lately returned to voice Po within the Netflix sequence Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight, can be again for the brand new movie. Different casting particulars haven’t been introduced but, however primarily based on the movie’s synopsis – orated by Black from the Cinemacon stage – it feels like a whole lot of acquainted voices may very well be again.
- Black defined to the Cinemacon viewers that within the new movie, Po is getting ready to take over because the religious chief of the Valley of Peace, however that he might want to title a successor for the function of Dragon Knight that he at the moment occupies. Through the movie, Po may even start coaching a brand new warrior and go toe-to-toe with a villain known as the Chameleon who has the ability to summon figures from the previous.
- Veteran Dreamworks producer Rebecca Huntley (The Unhealthy Guys, Abominable) will produce. She joined the corporate in 2009 and managed the animation division on Tips on how to Practice Your Dragon earlier than changing into a manufacturing government on movies together with Turbo, The Croods, and Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Needed.
- At Cinemacon, Dreamworks additionally featured new footage from its upcoming 2023 movies Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken and Trolls Band Collectively.
Pictured at prime: Kung Fu Panda 3
