Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American animated martial arts comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation. The first installment in the Kung Fu Panda franchise, it was directed by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne, and written by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger. Starring Jack Black, the film, set in a version of ancient China populated by anthropomorphic animals, centers on a bumbling giant panda named Po, a kung fu enthusiast living in the Valley of Peace. When the savage snow leopard Tai Lung is foretold to escape imprisonment and attack the Valley, Po is unwittingly named the "Dragon Warrior", a prophesied hero worthy of reading a scroll that has been intended to grant its reader limitless power.