'Moriarty' over at AICN scored a visit to the set of "Team America" this week, the super-marionation puppet movie satire of Hollywood action films and world terrorism that the "South Park" creators Matt Stone & Trey Parker are currently working on in a warehouse in LA's Culver City. The in-depth article explores the history of the project and how it got started, and reveals some great new specific scene details that'll have you laughing. Here's a sample of some of the great stuff we can expect to see:
"Its hard to do justice to the impact it has when you walk in on a 1/3 scale reproduction of the Panama Canal, complete with working boats and a town on both sides, filled with people going about their daily lives, never suspecting that theyre about to be destroyed by a Weapon Of Mass Destruction. Make that puppets, though, instead of people. Lots and lots of puppets. At times, there are as many as 40 puppeteers working from specially rigged scaffolds suspended above the miniature sets, as well as more puppeteers working the facial controls via remote control...
Then there's the films main bad guy, Kim Jong Il, the power-mad dictator...various sections of Kim Jong Ils palace were still standing, but I didnt get to see his bedroom where he evidently belts out his melancholy musical number, "I'm Ronery". This may not be a full-blown musical a la SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT, but Treys written several songs including the theme Team America! Fuck Yeah! and an Aerosmith-style power ballad that plays during the puppet sex scene. Yep. A graphic puppet sex scene".
For the full report, click here.
Thanks to 'Harder Than Wood'.
