With Matt and Trey’s new deal, that’s all about to change.
“We’ve never done another one because the show has been so satisfying,” says Stone. “We like the way we’ve been able to do the show. We’re like a punk band -- a little rough around the edges and get out fast. Now we’re older, and the idea of what streaming movies can be is pretty promising.”
If all goes to plan, you can expect to see two new South Park movies this year on the streamer -- and two more each year through 20-freaking-27. Well, maybe not movie-movies. Sounds like they’re just going to be their own thing.
“With Viacom, we realized we could make them as long or as short as we needed,” Parker says about whatever the new projects are going to be. “And they then went and called them movies. They are the ones who said we are giving them 14 movies in seven years. All I can say is for me, personally, I am 52 years old, I have made three movies in my life. So you do the math.”
But if they’re not movies exactly, they’re also not extra-long episodes.
“You come up with an idea and realize it’s longer than 22 minutes,” says Stone. “There are South Park episodes that are high concept enough where if you wanted to make a movie you could. We wanna scratch both itches. We feel like we can.”
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The first of the movies, er, South Park things dropped on Paramount + last November--South Park: Post-Covid.
“It’s the boys dealing with a post-COVID world. They’re just trying to get back to normal,” Parker says. “So, it is like our show. We’re just trying to get back to normal.”
Which character will you probably not see in either the movie-things or new episodes? Donald Trump.
“He’s hard to make fun of,” says Stone. “Every comedian was having the same problem. I am so happy he is not around for comedy’s sake. He’s such a provocateur. That’s what a comedian does. He sort of stole our tools. We’re all sitting there going, “What do we do?” He’s such a buffoon. He’s a comedy killer.”
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