Rapper Kendrick Lamar To Team Up With South Park Creators for New Film
Pulitzer Prize and Grammy-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar is now set to team up with Emmy and Tony-winning South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker (who won their Tony for The Book of Mormon) for an upcoming live-action project. This past week, Paramount Pictures had announced that they would team with Stone, Parker, and Lamar on an as-yet-untitled comedy project that would deal with racial issues through Parker and Stone’s lens.
Kendrick Lamar to team up with Emmy and Tony-winning South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker
As per the series’ official synopsis, the film will “depict the past and present coming to a head when a young Black man who is interning as a slave re-enactor at a living history museum discovers that his white girlfriend’s ancestors once owned his.”
“On behalf of Paramount Pictures and the wider ViacomCBS family, we look forward to ushering in the first theatrical collaboration from these creative visionaries, and galvanizing audiences worldwide around a powerful storytelling experience,” Paramount CEO Brian Robbins stated recently in a press release.
The screenplay of the movie comes from former Late Night With Conan O’Brien and The Chris Rock Show staffer Vernon Chatham, and the production is slated to begin in the spring of this year.
We do not know whether the movie will get a theatrical release, or if the plan is to release the film on Paramount+. Generally speaking, the best-performing new films on Paramount+ have mostly been family films like Paw Patrol: The Movie and Clifford the Big Red Dog.
Kendrick Lamar was recently nominated for an Academy Award for “All the Stars,” the track that he contributed to the Black Panther film soundtrack.
Very recently, Matt Stone and Trey Parker signed a deal with ViacomCBS’ MTV Entertainment Studios for a massive $900 million. This very deal will keep South Park’s new episodes all the way to Season 30 (as it is currently on its 25th season), and has included 14 South Park movies and six new seasons.
“Comedy Central has been our home for 25 years and we’re really happy that they’ve made a commitment to us for the next 75 years,” Parker and Stone said at the time. “When we came to ViacomCBS with a different way to produce the show during the pandemic, Chris (McCarthy), Nina (Diaz), Keyes (Hill-Edgar) and Tanya (Giles) were immediately supportive and enabled us to try something new that turned out to be really well received. We can’t wait to get back to doing traditional South Park episodes but now we can also try out new formats. It’s great to have partners who will always take a chance with us.”
