Fu Panda 2. Stephen Kearin as Master Chicken. Pax Jolie-Pitt as Yoo. Knox Jolie-Pitt as Ku Ku. Kate Hudson as Mei Mei. Zahara Jolie-Pitt as Meng Meng. Shiloh Jolie-Pitt as Shuai Shuai. Ming Tsai as Ming. Mike Mitchell as Male Palace Goose, Smart Panda Villager. Kelly Cooney as Female Palace Goose. Mick Wingert as the Goose and Rabbit farmers. Wingert previously voiced Po in the Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness animated series, further reprising the role after Kung Fu Panda 3 in the direct spin-off animated series Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny. Production Development In 2010, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg announced that the Kung Fu Panda franchise was planned to have six movies, or "chapters," altogether. In July 2012, Kung Fu Panda 3 was officially confirmed by Bill Damaschke, DWA's chief creative officer. The film was made as a co-production between DreamWorks Animation and Oriental DreamWorks, a Shanghai-based animation studio, founded in 2012 as a partnership between DreamWorks Animation and Chinese companies. One third of the film was made in China, and the rest in the United States, at DWA. This was the first time that any major American animated feature film had been co-produced with a Chinese firm. The filmmakers worked closely with SAPPRFT to ensure the film's release in China. As a film with a co-production status in China, it allowed the production companies to circumvent the country's strict import quota and take a greater share of box-office revenue than imported films. To ensure the film's success in China, in addition to the English version, the Chinese version of the film was also fully animated, making them the only versions that have the characters' lips synchronized with their voices. Casting Kung Fu Panda 3 saw the crew from the second film reunite, including director Jennifer Yuh Nelson, producer Melissa Cobb, screenplay writers Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, and Guillermo del Toro as executive producer. Initially, Nelson was to direct the film alone, but by February 2015, Alessandro Carloni had joined her as a co-director. According to the report, Carloni, who had worked as an animation supervisor on the first film and a story artist on the second, joined Nelson after she requested strengthening "the director's bench" to ensure that the film is completed in a timely manner. On April 9, 2013, DreamWorks Animation announced that Rebel Wilson, Bryan Cranston, and Mads Mikkelsen had joined