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South Park creators take 'full responsibility' for delays with Kendrick Lamar collaboration
Yahoo • • general
Key Points:
- South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have taken full responsibility for delays in their Kendrick Lamar collaboration, the musical comedy titled Whitney Springs, apologizing to partners pgLang and Paramount.
- Originally set to premiere in July 2025, the film's release date was pushed to March 2026 before being removed from Paramount's schedule entirely.
- Whitney Springs, directed by Parker and produced alongside Lamar and Dave Free, centers on a young Black reenactor at a historical slave plantation museum clashing with a racist mayor played by Parker.
- Despite being highlighted in Paramount's 2024 CinemaCon with plans to start filming that summer, the project was absent from the 2025 CinemaCon presentation.
- Parker and Stone have not directed a feature film since 2004’s Team America: World Police, with South Park and other life circumstances cited as reasons for the delay.
