
Kendrick Lamar Will Produce An Upcoming Comedy Directed by ‘South Park’ Co-Creator Trey Parker


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pgLang co-founders Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free are bringing their multidimensional visions to the display. A currently-untitled film they’re set to supply will be directed by South Park co-creator Trey Parker, with Vernon Chatman because the scriptwriter.
Based on Above the Line, “Chatman’s script finds the previous and current coming to a head when a younger Black man who’s interning as a slave reenactor at a residing historical past museum discovers that his white girlfriend’s ancestors as soon as owned his.”
Per a press launch, manufacturing for the movie begins this spring through Paramount Photos. The movie can be accessible to stream on Paramount+. “On behalf of Paramount Photos and the broader ViacomCBS household, we stay up for ushering within the first theatrical collaboration from these inventive visionaries, and galvanizing audiences worldwide round a robust storytelling expertise,” Brian Robbins, president & CEO, Paramount Photos, stated in an announcement final January.
Though the upcoming characteristic marks the full-length pgLang directorial debut, Lamar final collaborated with Parker and Stone’s manufacturing firm, Park County, for “The Coronary heart Half 5” deepfake visual. The music, which preceded Lamar’s fifth studio album Mr. Morale & the Large Steppers, received within the Greatest Rap Music and Greatest Rap Efficiency classes on the 2023 Grammy Awards in February.
Lamar’s final brush with appearing was short film “We Cry Collectively,” co-starring actress Taylour Paige.
“The loopy half about this joint is that it began with the movie first and the music — placing it on the precise album — got here after,” Lamar stated throughout a non-public screening with Free and actress Tessa Thompson in November. “The thought was all the time to seize this writing, not no music, [but] the writing and the movie and the feel and the cinematography of it with a purpose to get the total expertise out.”