China: The Panda Adventure "China: The Panda Adventure" mixes drama with spectacle and is in 2-D, rather than 3-D, like such Imax outings as "Wings of Courage, " and thus marks an effort to expand Imax's reach in the storytelling area. Imax is hoping the film will work in commercial big screen venues as well as the museum locations that favor science and travelogue films. Robert M. Young ("Dominick and Eugene") will direct from a script by Jeanne Rosenberg, who co-wrote "The Black Stallion." "China: The Panda Adventure" will shoot for nine weeks in China, starting on a backlot in Shanghai, then moving to rural Sichuan Province, to shoot with actual giant pandas in their natural habitat. One frustration was finding locations in crowded Shanghai that can accommodate Imax's size. "There's no place in the city with the scope of an Imax screen where you can shoot" and maintain the ‘30s period, said producer Charis Horton. That necessitated the work on a backlot. The panda Harkness brought out of China in 1936, Su-Lin, became a celebrity animal at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo, but died in 1938. The filmmakers have given Harkness an antagonist, a white hunter who is killing pandas. John Wilcox of American Adventure Productions is Executive Producer of "China: The Panda Adventure". Reuters/Variety
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