Earlier this 12 months, Trey Parker and Matt Stone signed a mega-deal with Paramount that meant not only a multiple-season renewal for South Park however fourteen specials unique to their streaming service Paramount+. In accordance with new data launched at the moment, the primary one might be referred to as South Park: Submit-COVID and can premiere on the service in late November.
Keep in mind when these had been referred to as films? That’s what Paramount initially claimed they had been, however Matt and Trey have publicly corrected this. In an interview with THR they mentioned “[Paramount] went and referred to as them films. They’re those who mentioned we’re giving them 14 films in seven years. All I can say is for me, personally, I’m 52 years previous, I’ve made three films in my life. So that you do the maths.”
With every particular being simply an hour lengthy, the duo are reluctant to name them films, although that’s concerning the size of Dumbo or a kind of early 2000s Disney direct-to-VHS films. Stone says the specials might be “large, however not fairly film scale.”
And certainly, the plot of the primary particular doesn’t sound like a grandiose movie-worthy story, however extra like a mean episode of the present. They had been reluctant to disclose an excessive amount of, however their fundamental abstract was that South Park: Submit-COVID was merely Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny making an attempt to regulate again to regular life after the chaos of the final two years. Provided that this collection tends to be extremely “within the now” and COVID may be very a lot not gone but, we’re undecided the place that is actually going.
What we’re really questioning is…the place is the present? It’s that point of the 12 months. On an extraordinary schedule, we’d be no less than three episodes deep into a brand new season of South Park by now. Issues like NFTs and silly title adjustments to Fb Corp are operating round on the market fully unmocked.
The precise cause why hasn’t been revealed, however the premiere of the particular South Park season has been moved to an early 2022 launch date. Earlier than that, the primary South Park Paramount+ particular will seem November 25.
