Kung Fu Panda 3
2016 film directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni
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- Tai Lung has appeared in a way in the three films, in Kung Fu Panda (2008) he is the main antagonist, in Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) he is briefly mentioned and appeared in a flashback and in Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) Po has a toy with the figure of Tai Lung and Kai has a Chi stone with the shape of him.
- Through the three films each villain represents a different challenge: Tai Lung is force, Lord Shen is mental and Kai is spiritual.
- Mr. Ping mentioned that he raised Po for 20 years before he told Po he was adopted, but in Kung Fu Panda 2 Shen was banished when Po was an infant and mentioned that he waited 30 years for the moment when he came back after being banished and in Secrets of the Scroll Po was a teenager 10 years ago.
- Initially the character designer Nicolas Marlet designed scarab jombies to serve as sidekicks to Kai, among them were some that had flame designs and ribbons like Chinese dancers.
- Wayne Knight who voiced one of the Pandas in the Panda Village had also been in the first Kung Fu Panda (2008) film as the voice of the Enemy Chief from Po's Dream at the Start of the Film that Kai had been inspired from.
- Four of Angelina Jolie Pitt's children, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, Pax Jolie-Pitt, Knox Jolie-Pitt and Zahara Jolie Pitt, are voice extras in the scene when Po talks to the pandas about a game plan.
- There's a Panda when Po and his parents are received by all the family that resembles Hodor from the Game of Thrones Series.
- Master Oogway is a turtle. Oogway sounds like the Chinese word for turtle, wu gui (woo gway).
- Actors David Cross (Crane) and J.K. Simmons (Kai) previously worked together for DreamWorks' 2010 film Megamind (2010). 6 years later, in Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016), this is their second collaboration.
- Kai was previously reported to be voiced by Mads Mikkelsen, who dropped from the film due to his character being rewritten.
- In order to get a feel for how pandas live, the filmmakers went directly to China's biggest panda preserve in Chengdu. While there, the filmmakers noted that pandas rolled to get places and incorporated that into the film.
- Master Porcupine's design came from concept art of a porcupine that was using his quills to practice acupuncture. This design was initially intended to be used in the first film.
- Four of the jombie masters can be seen as they appeared in life in Po's room: Master Porcupine was gray with orange robes, the Master Badger Twins were black with yellow robes, and Master Gorilla was shown to resemble Lord Shen's gorilla warriors from Kung Fu Panda 2.
- Initially the character designer Nico Marlet designed scarab jombies to serve as sidekicks to Kai, among them were some that had flame designs and ribbons like Chinese dancers.
- On Kai's chain belt with the chi amulets of masters that had died are a number of masters that he did not use: among them can be seen an elephant amulet, a frog amulet, a hippo amulet, and an amulet of Tai Lung himself, indicating that Tai Lung was banished to the Spirit Realm when Po used the Wuxi Finger Hold on him in the first film.
- Kai's original appearance would have had him with four arms, to resemble a character that was drawn in development for the first film, known as the "Four-Armed Yak Demon God on Fire" who initially would have served as a member of Tai Lung's gang.
- Kai's green eyes are in accordance with the Chinese legends of green eyes being synonymous with evil.
- This is the first Animated Film of 2016 to star J.K. Simmons. The other one being Zootopia (2016), which released just over a Month later,
- Po's Voice Actor from the Kung Fu Panda Video Games and the Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (2011) TV Series Mick Wingert voiced the Goose and Rabbit Farmers in this film.
- Kai's name was initially going to be Tian Sha, which means "ferocious (spirit) from heaven", and the characters separately mean "heaven" and "evil spirit" respectively. In the Chinese dub of the film, his name remains Tian Sha.
- The jombies were animated to skip some frames throughout their movements to be in direct contrast to the living masters, who are more fluid in movements.
- Jamie Campbell Bower was cast to voice Po's biological father but was replaced by actor Bryan Cranston. Neither of these Actors voiced Po's Father at the End of Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011), instead being voiced by Experienced Voice Actor Fred Tatasciore (who also voiced Shifu in the Kung Fu Panda Video Games and the Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (2011) TV Series).
- Actors David Cross (Crane) and J. K. Simmons (Kai) previously worked together for 2010's Megamind. 6 years later, in Kung Fu Panda 3, this is their second collaboration.
- Kai, the main villain, closely resembles the chief enemy in Po's dream, at the beginning of Kung Fu Panda (2008). Some other characters in the dream also resemble some of the Masters prisoners of Kai.