"Every Day They Are Working on It": 'South Park's Matt Stone Gives an Update on His Kendrick Lamar Comedy

Trey ParkerandMatt Stoneare taking a break from the perpetually snowy environs ofSouth Parkfor their first live-action movie in decades. The duo are producing anas-yet untitled comedywith hip-hop superstarKendrick Lamarand music producerDave Free. Stone recently gave an update on the film in an interview withBloomberg. He said:

“We are working on a movie. We are doing a movie with Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free and their company. And we are working on it, and it will hopefully come out July 4th weekend, oppositeJurassic Parkwhich is pretty funny.

[Kendrick Lamar is] very involved. And Dave Free is very involved. Every day they are working on it.”

Details and casting for the Paramount film are being kept under wraps, but it will center around a Black man working as a slave re-enactor at a history museum who discovers that his ancestors were owned by the ancestors of his white girlfriend; the script will be written by longtimeSouth Parkwriter andThe Shivering TruthcreatorVernon Chatman.

What Have Trey Parker and Matt Stone Done Outside ‘South Park’?

Before rocketing to stardom withSouth Park, Parker and Stone first collaborated on the satirical Western comedyCannibal! The Musical. A few years later, they wrote, directed, and produced the superhero sex comedyOrgazmo. Following the meteoric success ofSouth Park, the duo starred in theDavid ZuckercomedyBASEketball, which was a critical and commercial flop. They also created the sitcomThat’s My Bush!, a wacky comedy set inGeorge W. Bush’s White House, which was canceled after a single season. The duo had more success withTeam America: World Police, a satirical look at the War on Terror through the lens of marionette-based shows likeThunderbirds; it was a critical and commercial hit.

However, the duo’s biggest non-South Parkhit came, surprisingly, on the Great White Way.The Book of Mormon, a comedy musical about two Mormon missionaries finding an unreceptive audience in rural Uganda, premiered on Broadway in 2011. It won nine Tony Awards, made stars of leadsAndrew RannellsandJosh Gad, and is still running, having played over 5,000 performances.

Lamar recently starred as himself inPiece by Piece,Pharrell Williams' Lego-based biopic; it premiered in theaters last year. Lamar recently collaborated with Parker and Stone on his video for “The Heart Part 5”; Parker and Stone’s AI company, Deep Voodoo, used deepfakes to transform Lamar into a number of celebrities, includingO.J. Simpson,Will Smith, andKanye West.

Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Kendrick Lamar, and Dave Free’s untitled comedy isset to be released on June 28, 2025. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.