Trey Parker and Matt Stone have been busy with South Park since the 90s and have little time for other projects. A new live-action comedy from the duo is finally due out in 2025
The well-rehearsed comedy duo, consisting of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, are working on a new film project that, for once, involves neither animation nor puppet theater. It’s about time, because since Team America in 2004, the two grand viziers of off-color humor have only managed to make more South Park and their musical hit The Book of Mormon.
The new project will not be completely without musical interludes, as Parker and Stone have brought rapper and Grammy award-winner Kendrick Lamar on board as their partner in comedy-crime. Mmmkay.
A Get Out musical from the makers of South Park?
The film project was announced during CinemaCon 2024 by Paramount Pictures and Lamar’s production company pgLang. According to Entertainment Weekly, it will center on a young African-American man who works as an intern at a history museum, where he acts as an enslaved man in the slavery exhibit. Past and present collide when he realizes that his white girlfriend’s ancestors had enslaved his ancestors.
(Trey Parker and Matt Stone in the movie The Jocks (1998)
It’s probably no coincidence that the film is due to be released in US cinemas on July 4, 2025, America’s Independence Day. The politically charged premise sounds as if it is related to the horror satire Get Out and has a lot to say about race and racism in the USA. The only question is whether Parker and Stone have the necessary sensitivity for the subject, or whether their parodic chainsaw approach still works for them.
