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South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have been talking up their first feature film since the bonkers 2004 puppet action spectacle Team America: World Police for a while now. So, why haven’t we seen their reportedly $100 million live-action follow-up to 1997’s bonkers sex comedy Orgazmo more than a year since its original release date came and went?
In a statement to The Ankler this week, the duo explained why the musical comedy about reparations from slavery referred to internally at Paramount as Whitney Springs keeps getting pushed off their to-do list.
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“We take full responsibility for the schedule delay of this movie,” Stone and Parker said in a statement to the site. “We apologize to our partners at pgLang and Paramount and we appreciate their patience. South Park and life’s circumstances have gotten in the way but we still believe in the project.”
According to The Ankler, back in 2021, a group of Paramount executives visited the offices of the duo’s Park County production company to read the script written by South Park veteran Vernon Chatman (Wonder Showzen). The plan at that point was for the movie to be directed by Parker and produced by Stone, Kendrick Lamar and his business partner, Dave Free. Paramount reportedly picked up the movie in January 2022, with then-Paramount Pictures boss Brian Robbins saying in 2024 that the script was “one of the funniest and most original” ones he’d ever read.
The film focused on a young Black reenactor at a historical slave plantation museum in the Midwest who yells at tourists and fights with the town’s racist mayor — played by Parker — was reportedly slated to go into production in the summer of 2024. Unnamed sources told the site that the film also features previously unreleased, original music from Lamar.
The original release date, July 4, 2025, was then pushed back to March 20 of this year and then, in November, removed from the studio’s release schedule. At press time, no additional information was available on a potential release date.
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