Studio:
Paramount Pictures.
Production Company:
Unknown.
Project Phase: Greenlighted.
Who's Voices Are In It:
Trey Parker, Matthew Stone (Various Voices); Issac Hayes (Chef).
Who's Making It:
Trey Parker, Matthew Stone (Directors, Creators).
Premise: Nothing is certain at this time, except that Kenny gets killed.
Release Date: Unknown.
Comments: We're hoping that the current South Park-mania that is spreading about will not burn itself out before such a project could come to fruition.
Rumors: Unknown.
Scoop Feedback:
[Page draft kicked, along with the baby, by 'Widgett'.]
December 8, 1997... Our Director's Cut page first mentions the rumors of a South Park movie. Dallas-based scooper 'Bamm Bamm' heard on his favorite radio station 93.3 'The Zone' that a deal had just been worked out to turn the series into a feature. [Reported by 'Bamm Bamm'.]
December 9, 1997... Another scooper points us towards confirmation of a South Park film. In an interview with Parker and Stone they admit that they've been given a $1.5 million budget for the flick. Connect to the transcript of the interview on RSPN's 'History of South Park' South Zone. [Reported by 'arcaileus'.]
January 21, 1998... Variety magazine states that Trey Parker is up for the idea of a feature film based on their hit Comedy Central cartoon. They would want to go back to their roots, however, and have an R-rated movie more along the lines of The Spirit of Christmas, the "pilot" on which the series is based. Although the murmuring is only beginning for this project, word on the streets is that a budget has been set at $1.5 million. [Cheesy Poof-stained scoop provided by 'Widgett'.] January 22, 1998... While appearing on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matthew Stone confirmed they'll be working on a feature. ['MikeA1129', 'Hauser', 'The Notorious C.M.P', were watching TV.]
April 5, 1998... During an interview they gave while in Aspen, Trey Parker and Matt Stone confirmed they wanted to do a South Park movie using cardboard cut-outs, just like they did when they made their original short The Spirit of Christmas.
"Because it's actually -- what we're really excited about with the movie is that we're going to do it all on construction paper," Trey Parker said. "Because what's cool, like all this stuff, we only had the money to go right back to video. So we shot it on film -- and Matt and I have seen 'Spirit of Christmas' projected, the 35-mm prints, and it's gorgeous. I mean, it's like the detail of the construction paper is really cool.
"So when we went to Paramount, we said we've got to do this on construction paper." July 23, 1998... We've just been scooped that the film's premise follows our four main elementary dudes being sent to military school because they torched Mr. Hat (that'd be Mr. Garrison's hand puppet, for those unhip to all things SP.) We tried gleaning some confirmation from the SP publicist who then told us Matt and Trey are so busy trying to finish new episodes of the series that she didn't know even what next week's episode would be about. Oh, to be a fly on the construction paper... ['Satrne' is a client of Tom's Rhinoplasty.]
July 26, 1998... In an interview on The Movie Show (a Canadian Entertainment Tonight-like
show) Trey Parker and Matt Stone were discussing their upcoming film BASEketball. When the questioning changed
to what was in their futures, the duo revealed that their South Park feature will feature Canada prominently!
Speculation on our part: aren't Terence and Philip Canadian?
Here's something that we just can't imagine as being for real. While watching MTV on Friday
this scooper swears he heard an announcement that the Spice Girls would be writing songs for the South Park
movie. Quickly -- we need to know if this is legit or not; the fate of Mankind may hang in the balance! ['Sparky',
you better not be pulling our leg...]
July 28, 1998... Well the reports of the Spice Girls appearing on a South Park album are indeed
accurate -- however, it's for an album inspired by the television series and not for the forthcoming movie
(which'll probably have it's own soundtrack.) Other rumored acts include Madonna, Green Day, Blur, All Saints and George Clooney (!?) will also appear on the SP
album, due to hit record stores this October. MTV news was all over this story, reporting of it this past
weekend. [Followed up on by 'Snowman', Lars, John Henderson, 'Smedman53', 'Jedi B', 'adamthinks', 'GF2020', 'dmodadog', 'vt1998' and anonymous
had their MTV.]
Finally, the script has been delivered to the studio. In an interview that was picked up by many newspapers across North America, the South Park
creators confirm that the movie's script has been handed to Paramount Pictures VIP Sherry Lansing. Trey Parker was quoted as saying "Sherry Lansing is reading
it right now and probably bleeding her eyeballs. I would love, love, love to see her face. I think they thought we'd put in a few naughty words. But its like downright
R-rated;it's pretty bad."
The movie opens with Saddam Hussein about to be sentenced to death in the electric chair. After speaking his final words ("How about get me the (expletive) out of
this chair!" Matt Stone said) Saddam is dispatched in a way that creates much blood and gore. Stone re-iternated that the movie will definitely be made of
stronger stuff than the television series. [' jcapaul' and 'Answerkid1' are some of the friendly faces you'll see everywhere.]
And yesterday Isaac Hayes showed up on 'Mancow's Morning Madhouse', a radio program on Q101-FM in Chicago, Mancow Muller asked Hayes about the
South Park movie, and Hayes mentioned that "We'll start work on it in about two weeks for a Christmas release." Hayes' statement would
contradict all the reports of a Spring '99 target date. When Mancow asked if the film will have an 'R' rating, Hayes responded by saying, "I haven't seen the script yet,
but knowing Trey and Matt, it probably will be rated 'R'" [A big thank you goes out to 'BluesBro05' in Chi-town for delivering it in a big way!]
September 3, 1998... CA writer extrodinaire 'Widgett' caught up with Trey Parker at DragonCon and asked him
the latest news about the South Park feature. Parker told our man that the film's been "a bitch" so far. It's being done by a
different crew from the SP series, even being worked on in a different building. The script was turned in two weeks ago to Paramount, and copies of the script are on
red paper so as to prevent copying. Parker told 'Widgett' that they want to protect what the film is about and not talk about the premise so that people won't second
guess what they're doing. [Dude!! The Internet killed 'Widgett'! You information superhighway bastard!]
December 10, 1998... A teaser trailer for the South Park feature is running in front of
Star Trek: Insurrection (which opens this weekend). The trailer starts out showing a desk with computer
equipment strewn all over it, with a voiceover explaining how Paramount is developing their next animated feature
that will re-invent civilization as we know it. The high tech equipment morphs into a huge Cartman covering the
majority of the movie screen commenting upon how freakin' gi-normous he is in his widescreen glory. SOUTH PARK 1999 UNCUT flashes across the
screen.
We've heard reports that the teaser is receiving enthusiastic audience response...on the scale of 1 to 10
(with the response for The Phantom Menance trailer ranking an 10), South Park is drawing a
7. [Reports sent in by 'The Freakazoid' and Campbell,
!!!
Related Sites:
Comedy Central's South Park --
The station's official webpage for all things South Park.
www.beef-cake.com -- Maintained by Taison Tan, this
site hosts three levels of all things South Park. You can download sound files, a FAQ, episode
transcripts and guides and translate what Kenny is mumbling in every episode.