I just repeats what I reads.
Borys Kit at Heat Vision reports that Charlie recently spent a couple of weeks polishing the script for...
... Kung Fu Panda 2.
Believe me, I know how that sounds. No sources are cited, and I can't find it mentioned anywhere else, but Borys is from Hollywood Reporter,which lends credibility. But still.
[Charlie] is coming off of less than two weeks worth of work on DreamWorks Animation's "Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom," the sequel to the fun 2008 movie that had the voice talent of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie and Dustin Hoffman.
His work on "Kaboom" falls under the polish category, and animated movies tend to be worked on by multiple writers, so it's not fair to say this will be a Kaufman cartoon. But it will be interesting to see, when the movie is released in 2011, how much of the Kaufman stamp it will bear. (Source)
Ordinarily this would sound like complete BS to me. But the Hollywood Reporter thing... Talk about news out of left-field. Is this awesome or awful or just plain surprising?
Anyway. A while ago, Charlie did say he enjoyed the first Panda.
Thanks to Nathaniel and Alby!
Update: I don't have much faith in the IMDB's forums as a news source, but last month a member posted this message, which sounds kinda legit to me. I guess. (Emphasis added):
Today Charlie Kaufman was in Bologna, Italy, to receive the prize "Lancia - Celebration of Lives". He said he's working on a new script, "Tentative", about which he didn't revealed much. Does anyone know something?
And, about Kung Fu Panda 2: he said he worked on this script only about 2 weeks, stating that was like "writing a single episode for a tv series".
Sorry about my bad english. (Source)
I doubt Charlie's writing anything called "Tentative," though. Seems too simple for a CK title. Maybe something's been lost in translation. Like, "I'm tentatively working on a new script." Maybe.
