“South Park” co-creator Trey Parker is reportedly set to direct a live-action comedy that hails from himself and partner Matt Stone along with producers and Dave Free and Grammy-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar.
According to Above the Line, the project was announced last January but had no director at the time.
The film still does not have a title, but Parker brings directing experience, having helmed several films – most notably 1999’s “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut” and 2004’s “Team America: World Police”.
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.
Vernon Chatman (“South Park”) is penning the project, which Paramount will distribute in cinemas. Filming was originally going to take place in the Spring, but “South Park” commitments got in the way.
Parker, Stone, Lamar and Free are all producing. The news comes as the twenty-sixth season of “South Park” is set to wrap on Comedy Central tonight, whilst further “South Park” movies are due for Paramount+ later this year.
Paramount has “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” opening this Friday and has “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” on the way on July 14th.
