South Park is ready for an enormous comeback in 2025. Matt Stone, co-creator of the acclaimed grownup animated sequence, confirmed a South Park film particular will arrive early this yr by way of Paramount+ adopted by new episodes on Comedy Central.
2024 noticed Stone and co-creator Parker releasing an Ozempic-themed particular in Could, and that was it for South Park final yr. It was simply the second yr and not using a new season of South Park for the reason that long-running sequence’ premiered in 1997, as The Direct identified.
The slow-down in 2024 additionally prompted a cascade of searches for a 2025 South Park film on the massive display. Now, it seems the beloved sequence will stay on the small display this yr, with a “film particular” and extra new episodes.
Parker and Stone even have a live-action comedy movie within the works. Again in November 2024, Stone spoke with Bloomberg a couple of mission he and Parker are engaged on with hip-hop star Kendrick Lamar and affiliate Dave Free as a potential motive for the South Park hiatus.
“We’re engaged on a film. We’re doing a film with Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free and their firm. And we’re engaged on it, and it’ll hopefully come out July 4th weekend, reverse ‘Jurassic Park’ which is fairly humorous.
“[Kendrick Lamar is] very concerned. And Dave Free may be very concerned. Each day they’re engaged on it. However that’s what we’re doing, after which we’ll do ‘South Park.’ Starting of subsequent yr, we’re coming again with one episode, and a bunch extra within the second half of 2025. However we’re engaged on one thing.”
Whereas there was hypothesis that South Park being largely absent in 2024 might sign a looming finish to the beloved sequence, Stone dispelled these notions.
”We don’t have an finish in sight. And truly, and I’ll say, actually, it’s as a result of it’s nonetheless such an superior sandbox. You already know, we’re engaged on a film proper now, a live-action film, and after we get again to ‘South Park,’ it’s going to be like, ‘Oh, proper, right here we go.’ I can not wait to hang around with these characters once more, to be tacky about it, however we love doing ‘South Park.’”
At all times fast with a topical joke, Stone added, “I feel we’ll final lengthy sufficient to achieve the singularity and move it off to our AI.”
South Park Signed Some Critical Ink in 2021
There’s additionally the truth that Parker and Stone signed a large cope with ViacomCBS in 2021, guaranteeing new South Park episodes on Comedy Central by 2027. The deal additionally consists of 14 unique films which stream by Paramount+.
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The upcoming 2025 film particular will rely among the many 14 within the contract, with seven launched to this point. These titles embrace South Park: Put up COVID (November 21, 2021), South Park: Put up COVID – The Return of COVID (December 16, 2021), South Park: The Streaming Wars (June 1, 2022), South Park: The Streaming Wars Half 2 (July 13, 2022), South Park: Becoming a member of the Panderverse (October 27, 2023) South Park (Not Appropriate for Kids) (December 20, 2023), and South Park: The Finish of Weight problems (Could 24, 2024.)
With simply half of the film specials out, and Stone confirming new episodes on the way in which, the state of the South Park union appears sturdy.
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August 13, 1997
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Comedy Central