You’ll just drill down and you’ll like tweak a line or a word is different, and it can kind of drive you insane,” he explains. Because with a movie, you’ll work on the same story - the same one-and-a-half-hour story - for two years. “It’s so much more fun to go in every week or every couple of weeks and work on a new episode. One where he didn’t feel like he was just slightly tweaking the same material for an extended period of time. That, he said, presented a different kind of experience than working in film.
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He really is great at getting emotion, too, so sometimes I’m going to turn the lights down here, put a shaft of light right on his sad head.”įor Black, his return to the franchise was an exciting venture into new creative territory as his first TV animation stint in the Kung Fu Panda universe.
“He tells you when to go wide because he’s doing something with his body. It’s fun and it’s challenging,” Nigoghossian adds. “A typical actor says their lines and they give you the opportunity to do a little acting or something, but with Jack, you have to do 90 poses for one line. Hastings, who also served as the series’ voice director, says Black really responded to the show’s storytelling, “which is more mature than where a lot of this stuff has been,” and is more in line with what the first movie’s “really great emotional stories” were. “Then there are also people involved with the movies who are also working at Netflix, and so we had connections in that manner.” “The starter for it is the idea that Jack is probably not that busy right now because nobody was, except for animation,” he explains.
Hastings tells THR getting Black back was the result of the pandemic shutdown in Hollywood.
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The Dragon Knight might be the newest chapter in the franchise, but it’s also one full of familiar voices. The Netflix series marks the return of Jack Black as the voice of Po, after Mick Wingert took over the role for the prior TV shows. “But in the journey, of course, it’s about realizing that it’s not the title and it’s not what other people call you and that everything he thought made him the Dragon Warrior and the Dragon Master, he still has.” “Part of this was my desire to knock him down and to put him in a bit of a hole where he feels like he’s lost this important thing,” the Dragon Knight EP explains. In a story where Po loses a title he’s spent literal years with, The Dragon Knight puts him on a journey that tests his own understanding of himself, and sees him teamed up with and “challenged by somebody who doesn’t get him.” “Then also related to storytelling, we’re doing basically a single story through the first 11 episodes - a serialized thing which hasn’t been done with the Kung Fu Panda television stuff before.”
“Just within the realm of TV animation, the picture that we’re delivering and coming up with and designing looks fantastic,” Hasting shares. While it keeps many of the elements viewers loved about previous installments, Hastings notes that the show gets to go narratively and visually to places the franchise has never been.
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Voice of Po and star Jack Black notes that the EP “had a cool vision for what an epic journey this would be” - one that still manages to be full of “all the magic stuff that made the first movie so great: it’s Kung Fu, it’s comedy, it’s adventure and in the end, it’s got some cool messages for the kids.” 'Glass Onion' Trailer: 'Knives Out' Sequel Promises a Puzzling New MysteryĮxecutive producer Peter Hastings tells The Hollywood Reporter that the concept for the series began “with the idea of a road trip,” specifically a buddy road comedy that “naturally takes you all over in pursuit of their goal, which is to try and catch bad guys.”
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