Prepare to attend for that new Kendrick Lamar challenge.
No, not music. We’re speaking about his deliberate film with Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of “South Park.”
It had already been introduced that the movie’s launch date had been pushed again from July 4, 2025 to March 20, 2026, on condition that Lamar was busy together with his “Grand Nationwide Tour” that includes collaborator and co-headliner singer SZA. Stone and Parker additionally had “South Park” commitments.
However buried in a current story from The Hollywood Reporter about Paramount beneath the possession of the Ellison household was information that “In current days, Paramount revealed that it received’t be prepared for that date, as phrase broke elsewhere that Lamar might go on tour.” It was just lately reported that Lamar might head out on tour once more in 2026.
Now that we all know why individuals are speaking once more concerning the challenge, right here is extra of what we all know:
In response to THR, the movie is internally generally known as “Whitney Springs.”
It’s described as a “live-action, music-infused comedy skewering racism” which facilities “on a younger Black man who takes a job performing as a slave at a well-liked plantation attraction, and who grows shortly cautious about your complete state of affairs.”
The Pulitzer Prize winning-rapper is well-known for addressing racism in his work and performances.
Lamar used his 2025 Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present efficiency to symbolically name the US out with actor Samuel L. Jackson wearing an Uncle Sam ensemble providing what Billboard referred to as “Greek chorus-like commentary on the racial state of the nation.”
Parker and Stone know so much about that kind of creativity.
The pair have been utilizing the present season to criticize President Trump and his administration since the buzzy first episode premiered in July.
Vernon Chatman, whose different credit embrace “The Chris Rock Present” and “The Shivering Fact,” reportedly wrote the script. Lamar and Dave Free through their firm PGLang produced alongside Stone and Parker with their Park County manufacturing firm.
A lot isn’t identified, together with the precise title of the movie.
However, apparently, it’s humorous.
THR reported that at CinemaCon in 2024 then Paramount co-chief government officer Brian Robbins mentioned the film was “one of many funniest and most unique scripts we’ve ever learn.”
CNN has reached out to reps for Paramount, Lamar, Stone and Parker for remark.
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