South Park creators to take on new live action comedy

Matt Stone and Trey Parker
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South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are teaming up to tackle a characteristically eyebrow-raising project. 

Since its inception in the 90s, thereā€™s been few places that Trey Parker and Matt Stoneā€™s TV show South Park has been unwilling to go. Whilst the duo have also worked on couple of movies together in that time, South Park has always remained as a controversy-generating piece of television, with its tendency (not to mention impressive production capacity) to satirise contemporary events almost as they happen, lending the show a continued freshness that its other animated rivals such as The Simpsons lost many years ago.

When Parker and Stone have turned their attention elsewhere, theyā€™ve usually enjoyed successā€¦ and controversy has often followed. From their hit musical, The Book Of Mormon (which is being adapted into a film) to 2004ā€™s ā€˜puppet sexā€™-laden Team America: World Police, wherever the duo go creatively, eyeballs, opinions and occasional outrage duly follow.

The pairā€™s next film project is sure to continue that tradition of ruffling a few feathers with the news that they are working with Grammy-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar to create a comedy where ā€˜the story will depict the past and present coming to a head when a young Black man interning as a slave re-enactor at a living history museum discovers that the ancestors of his white girlfriend once owned his own ancestors.ā€™

The film doesnā€™t have a title yet and was reportedly supposed to shoot this spring until the duoā€™s commitment to South Park got in the way. With the latest season having just wrapped up, weā€™d imagine it will be full steam ahead on this project meaning casting news will surely follow soon. Paramount, the duoā€™s longtime South Park partners are backing the project. Weā€™ll let you know more as we hear it.

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