Jack Black Returns As Kung Fu Panda In New Netflix Animated Show
Jack Black will be returning as the voice of one of his most iconic roles in the new Netflix animated series Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight. The Kung Fu Panda franchise began when DreamWorks Animation released the original film in 2008. It followed Po (Black), an enthusiastic but clumsy panda who has a dream of learning kung fu. At first he isn't accepted by the elite group the Furious Five, who are all trained by Master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman), but his inimitable style proves instrumental in defending their village from the evil Tai Lung (Ian McShane) and Po becomes an unlikely hero.
Kung Fu Panda became an enormous box office success, earning the #6 slot in the top 10 domestic films of the year, right behind Pixar's Wall-E. Naturally, the film garnered two sequels, which arrived in 2011 and 2016 respectively. In addition to several short films and video games, Kung Fu Panda expanded into two animated series, Nickelodeon's Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, which ran from 2011 to 2016, and Prime Video's Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny, which ran from 2018 to 2019. While both series featured Po as the protagonist, both shows featured voice actor Mick Wingert in the role rather than Jack Black.
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Today, Netflix announced that Jack Black would be returning to the role of Po in a brand new animated series. This will mark the first time he has played Po since 2016, in Kung Fu Panda 3 and the short film Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll. The series does not yet have an official release date, but Netflix did share a selection of first-look images showing Po on his new adventures, along with the new weasel characters Veruca (Della Saba) and Klaus (Chris
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