‘South Park’ Creators Team Up With Kendrick Lamar for New Comedy With Wild Premise

Over the years, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Kendrick Lamar have become accomplished figures in their respective fields. Parker and Stone achieved global recognition for their long-running animated series South Park and created the Tony-winning hit musical The Book of Mormon. Lamar, meanwhile, has earned accolades from the Grammys to the Emmys and is regarded by many to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. 

Seeing these names together, then, might come as a surprise, but perhaps that’s the point. During Paramount’s presentation at CinemaCon on April 11, the studio announced the release date for Parker and Stone’s new film. It will find them teaming up with Lamar and his creative partner Dave Free on a new live-action comedy that’s set to premiere in theaters on July 4, 2025. The movie is written by Vernon Chatman, who joined South Park as a writer over two decades ago and has been a producer for the series for years. 

When the project was first announced in 2022, a description teased its plot. “The past and present [come] to a head when a young black man who is interning as a slave reenactor at a living history museum discovers that his white girlfriend’s ancestors once owned his,” it read at the time.

Not much else is known about the project, but Paramount CEO Brian Robbins ensured it’ll be worth the wait. “This script is one of the funniest and most original scripts we’ve ever read and it’s certain to create some fireworks,” he teased, per Variety. 

It’s not the first time Lamar has found himself in the movie world, as he famously curated the soundtrack album for Black Panther in 2018. Parker and Stone, meanwhile, are no stranger to making movies. In 1999, they released the feature film South Park: Bigger Longer, and Uncut; their second feature-length film, Team America: World Police, debuted in 2004. 

Lamar is known for keeping a low profile in his daily life, so if he appears in the movie, it’s likely we won’t know until much closer to the release date.