Jack Black's Po Goes from Dragon Warrior to Spiritual Leader inKung Fu Panda 4Trailer

Mar. 15, 2025

Po will soon be back on the big screen.

The first trailerforKung Fu Panda 4debuted Wednesday, seeingJack Black’s heroic mammal set off on a new adventure.

The sequel finds the panda “tapped to become the Spiritual Leader of the Valley of Peace,” which “poses a couple of obvious problems,” per a synopsis.

“First, Po knows as much about spiritual leadership as he does about the paleo diet, and second, he needs to quickly find and train a new Dragon Warrior before he can assume his new lofty position,” the synopsis continues.

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Kung Fu Panda 4.Universal Pictures/Youtube

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The firstKung Fu Pandafilm became a hit in 2008. Asecond film premieredin 2011 andKung Fu Panda 3was released in 2016.

Two animated series have also spun off of the films, including Nickelodeon’sKung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness(2011-2016), Prime Video’sKung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny(2018-2019) andKung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight, which premiered onNetflixin 2022 and released its third season this past September. The latter series was the only one of the three in which Black, 54, reprised his voice role as Po.

Blackteased the traileron Instagram Tuesday, FaceTiming Davis, 58, and Awkwafina, 35, to welcome them to the cast.

The trailer forKung Fu Pandacomes after a successful year for Black in the animated-film world, asThe Super Mario Bros. Movie—in whichhe voiced villain Bowser, and performedthe hit song “Peaches”— made more than $1.36 billion worldwide.

As for the project Black is most proud of in his own career so far,he told PEOPLE in April, “in a weird way, it might beTenacious D in the Pick of Destiny, because that’s the only movie that I wrote.”

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Kung Fu Panda 4is in theaters March 8.

source: people.com