South Park Creators Apologize for Kendrick Lamar Film Delay — SkimNews
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- Trey Parker and Matt Stone issued an official apology for the years-long delay of their Kendrick Lamar movie, taking "full responsibility" and crediting "'South Park' and life's circumstances" for the holdup
- The musical comedy, working-titled "Whitney Springs," is in production at Paramount under the Park County banner, with Lamar producing alongside Dave Free's pgLang company
- Early loglines describe the film as following a Black man working as a slave reenactor at a living history museum who discovers his white girlfriend's family once owned his ancestors
- The Ankler reported a variation: the film follows the reenactor clashing with a racist Midwestern mayor played by Parker, and Lamar has recorded several original songs for the project
- South Park Season 29 premieres Sept. 16, arriving after Seasons 27 and 28 shocked audiences by making Donald Trump a major antagonist following a two-year hiatus
- Parker and Stone recently renamed South Park to "South America" in an apparent jab at Trump for renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America
Why it matters: Paramount and pgLang have waited years on a prestige musical comedy that pairs Parker's provocative sensibility with Lamar's reach, and the public apology signals the project is finally back on track ahead of Season 29's Sept. 16 premiere. The shifting plot descriptions — from a family-secrets logline to The Ankler's mayor-rivalry version — suggest the screenplay has been rewritten multiple times during the delay.
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