Secrets of the Furious Five
| Secrets of the Furious Five | |
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| Directed by | Raman Hui |
| Written by | Paul McEvoy Todd Berger |
| Produced by | Karen Foster |
| Starring | Jack Black Dustin Hoffman David Cross Randall Duk Kim Jessica DiCicco Max Koch Tara Strong Jaycee Chan |
| Edited by | John Venzon |
| Music by | Henry Jackman Hans Zimmer John Powell |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Home Entertainment |
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Running time | 24 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $10 million |
Secrets of the Furious Five (also known as Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five) is a 2008 American animated short film produced by DreamWorks Animation that serves as a spin-off to the animated feature film, Kung Fu Panda (2008), and appears on a companion disc of the original film's deluxe DVD release. It was broadcast on NBC February 26, 2009, and became available as a separate DVD.
The film has a framing story of Po in computer animation telling the backstories of each member of the Furious Five, which are depicted in 2D cel animation.
The only actors from the film to reprise their roles in this short were Jack Black as Po, Dustin Hoffman as Master Shifu, David Cross as Crane, and Randall Duk Kim as Master Oogway. Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu, Jackie Chan and Seth Rogen do not reprise their roles, mainly because their related characters are depicted as their younger selves.
In this short, Monkey is voiced by Jaycee Chan, son of Jackie Chan. Jaycee Chan also voiced Crane in the Cantonese version of the original film. Production of the film was outsourced to Reel FX Creative Studios, which worked on CG animation, and to Film Roman, which worked on traditionally animated sequences.