Jack Black re-teams with KUNG FU PANDA writers

by Matt Holmes

Jack Black will re-team with the writers of his animated hit KUNG FU PANDA for an untitled live-action comedy at Universal which is described as a comedic version of THE BOURNE IDENTITY. The studio picked it up for seven figures. Black will play an American who finds himself washed up on the shores of Cuba with no memory of who he is or how he got there, but rather bizarrely in this guy's case, he deduces that he must be a superspy. Though you would just need to look at him to figure out that can't be right! Berger, the co-writer of PANDA defends his decision to go for a comedic version to The Hollywood Reporter...

"On the other hand," Berger said, "if he did turn out to be a superspy, this wouldn't be a 'comedic Bourne Identity,' but just 'The Bourne Identity,' and apparently Universal has already made that movie, several times." "For our next live-action project, we knew we wanted to work with either a panda or Jack. Luckily, Endeavor repped Jack," Aibel said. "We also figured that if we could write for Jack as a panda, we could write for him as a human."
KUNG FU PANDA is one of the highest grossing films of the year with $620 million worldwide from a $130 million budget.

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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.