New Jack Black Animated Film on the Horizon
Jack Black Enters the Animated World of Cryptozoology
The Kung-Fu Panda will strike again. At least, his voice actor will.
According to Variety, Chris Meledandri, who heads Universal’s Illumination Entertainment, a family-film branch of the studio, has acquired a pitch for an animated film to showcase Jack Black as the lead. The pitch “is centered in the world of cryptozoology, which is the search for legendary creatures whose existence has never actually been confirmed, like the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot.”
Black pitched the script himself, along with writer Jason Micallef (who has served as an electrician of all things on films such as Death to Smoochy and Requiem for a Dream). Black will be producing the film as well, and it is assumed that Micallef will take on writing duties.
All is not lost for the panda, either: a sequel to Kung-Fu Panda is on the way, with Black attached.
