Kendrick Lamar is making a movie with South Park co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, and new particulars have now emerged, though a possible launch date stays elusive.
Deadline first introduced the movie final January, which can see Kendrick coming into the film trade by co-producing an upcoming live-action comedy movie for Paramount Photos alongside Stone, Parker and his inventive companion and former supervisor Dave Free.
Based on Above The Line, the untitled movie – which can deal with a younger Black man interning as a slave reenactor at a dwelling historical past museum who discovers his white girlfriend’s ancestors as soon as owned his – will now be directed by Parker. Parker and Stone may even produce the movie underneath their Park County banner, whereas Free and the Grammy-award-winning rapper will produce through pgLang.
The untitled Paramount movie will function pgLang’s first, and can hopefully start taking pictures someday this yr. Filming was supposed to start final spring however the South Park creators’ schedules reportedly received in the way in which.
“On behalf of Paramount Photos and the broader ViacomCBS household, we sit up for ushering within the first theatrical collaboration from these inventive visionaries, and galvanizing audiences worldwide round a strong storytelling expertise,” stated Paramount Photos’ President & CEO, Brian Robbins, in a press release again in January.
Emmy-award-winning author Vernon Chatman will likely be dealing with the script. Other than South Park and his well-known Grownup Swim initiatives, Chatman has additionally labored with Killer Mike and Snoop Dogg on Set off Warning With Killer Mike and Doggie Fizzle Televizzle, respectively. He was additionally a author for The Chris Rock Present.
This received’t be the primary time the South Park creators have teamed up with Okay. Dot and Dave Free. In a prolonged sit-down with The New York Occasions Journal in December, it was revealed that the famed TV duo owned an organization specializing in deep faux expertise and that they lent their tech to the pgLang pair for Kendrick’s “The Coronary heart Pt. 5” visible.
“You see Kendrick became 2Pac, Kendrick became Kanye, and I feel we had Eminem,” Stone advised the outlet over Zoom. He advised Kendrick and Dave that they might be among the many first to make use of the expertise for one in every of their movies, and reportedly the pair exclaimed, ‘What if we did the Jussie Smollett!”
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Eminem didn’t make the ultimate reduce, and Kung Fu Kenny as an alternative relied on deep fakes of Kanye West, Nipsey Hussle, Will Smith, Kobe Bryant, OJ Simpson and Jussie Smollett. The video obtained a Grammy nomination for greatest music video on the 2023 awards.
In the meantime, Kendrick Lamar is one of the names introduced on the lineup for this yr’s Exterior Lands Competition.
The music and humanities pageant will happen from August 11-13 on the Golden Gate Park in San Fransisco. Tickets can be found through the pageant’s web site.