A new live-action comedy is heading our way next summer from the minds that brought us South Park and one of music’s most influential artists.
Matt Stone and Trey Parker are producing an upcoming Paramount Pictures project with Kendrick Lamar, which is set to kick off production this summer, per The Hollywood Reporter. According to the outlet, details of the film were revealed at CinemaCon on Thursday (April 11) with an announcement from Paramount CEO Brian Robbins.
“This script is one of the funniest, craziest and most original scripts we’ve ever read and it’s certain to create some fireworks when it hits theaters on July 4th, 2025,” he teased.
The project is being produced by Stone and Parker’s Park County and Lamar and Dave Free’s PG Lang, per THR.
News of the film, which is written by Vernon Chatman, was first revealed in 2022. It’s set to “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,” per Variety.
Stone and Parker’s iconic animated comedy debuted on Comedy Central in 1997, and has aired over 300 episodes over 26 seasons so far. The show’s most recent special, South Park: Joining The Panderverse, hit Paramount+ in December 2023.
As for Lamar, his most recent album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, earned him Best Rap Album at the 2023 Grammys. He has garnered 17 Grammys and 50 nominations, and even earned a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 THR. His 2017 album DAMN. scored him the award, per The New York Times.
South Park is streaming on Max and Paramount+.
