Dreamworks Announces Kung Fu Panda 4 for 2024 Release

Of Dreamworks’ numerous franchises all through the a long time, Kung Fu Panda has develop into one among their greatest hits. After 2016’s Kung Fu Panda 3, the collection has primarily lived on by way of numerous CG spinoff exhibits and specials. (The most up-to-date of which, The Dragon Knight, premiered final month on Netflix.) But not content material with simply releasing TV spinoffs of their movie franchises, Dreamworks has gone and introduced that the franchise is making its return to theaters in two years.

Kung Fu Panda 4 is certainly in manufacturing, and at the moment slated for a March 8, 2024. The CG martial arts franchise focuses on Jack Black’s Po, an excitable panda who turns into a martial arts grasp and reunites along with his long-lost household. Across the primary three movies, the trilogy has earned $1.8 billion on the field workplace. Over the years, Dreamworks has been cagey up to now on if the franchise would proceed with extra movies. In 2010, earlier than the discharge of 2011’s Kung Fu Panda 2, then-CEO of Dreamworks Animation Jeffrey Katzenberg mentioned the franchise had been mapped for 2 trilogies: a “Student” trilogy, and a “Master” trilogy.

But in 2016, Panda 3 administrators Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni each mentioned the strategy for the movies was to take them one by one. “We don’t want the films to feel open-ended,” mentioned Carloni. “We want it to feel like a complete journey.” When requested once more in 2018 by Metro, Nelson reiterated that she seen the collection as a single trilogy. however hoped that if future movies did exist, Po would stay the main target. “The pull is Po,” she mentioned. “Po is the world. So I am sure something will happen at some point, but it’s just that I don’t know what.”

While no different data on the movie was given, similar to a director or forged, {that a} new movie is popping out comparatively quickly is motive sufficient to get excited.

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