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Friday, May 14, 2010 at 9:50PM Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless 'Kung-Fu Panda'
Of all people, Charlie Kaufman has been working on the script for Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom. 
Yeah, Kaufman, best known as the out-of-the-mainstream genius who crafted Being John Malkovich, Adaptation., and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind has just completed a couple weeks' worth of work polishing the screenplay, according to The Hollywood Reporter. What an odd pairing.
The first Panda was not only a big hit for DreamWorks, it was also a quality animated movie, and clearly, the expectations will be high for the follow-up, which comes out next summer. Even still, this is either the exact right move or the exact wrong move, because Kaufman's tendencies aren't usually of the family-friendly talking animal variety.
With that amount of work, it's probably not a red ink job on the entire script; I would think Kaufman was brought in either for a couple key scenes - remember how the beginning of Kung Fu Panda used a different animation style? - or to focus on one or two characters to bring their development or dialogue to a different place. I know I wouldn't hire Charlie Kaufman and give him a limited amount of time if I were looking at the project as a whole.
Still, it's the sort of thing nobody would normally expect and it gives us even more reason to keep this one bookmarked for next summer.



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