Wednesday November 19, 2008 12:31 am
South Park’s Last Hurrah: A Big Screen Sequel

When Trey Parker and Matt Stone decide to pull the plug on South Park, they won’t quietly fade from the scene with a single half-hour TV stint. These two comedy masters will say good-bye in a way the fans can appreciate (and spend a lot more money on): with another big-screen version of the show.
Don’t worry, avid Park fans, the show isn’t scheduling to end itself anytime soon. Parker and Stone are signed on with Comedy Central until 2011, at which time they may or may not decide to renew their contract.
“We talked about maybe some day doing a movie to sort of end it all, and that seems like the best idea,” said Parker to the press recently. “That’s been a big thought, to do the last show as a movie.”
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“We came up with this pretty good idea for a movie, and then of course what happened was, we got in the middle of a South Park run, and were completely out of ideas,” he explained. “And we were like, well, we’ve got the use the movie idea. And that became Imaginationland.”
Imaginationland was actually a three-episode bloc which mocked the War on Terror in true South Park style. This group of episodes, later served up as a mini-movie to DVD buyers, won an Emmy for the comedy duo.
But Parker and Stone have done many other projects outside South Park, including Team America: World Police (truly, one of the more hysterical movies ever made). What about non-Park film projects? “We started going down the movie route,” Parker explained. “Basically, Team America just killed the movie spirit in us.”
The extensive production involved with creating the Parker/Stone puppet world was draining to the duo. “It was just a much bigger beast than we ever could have imagined,” Parker explained.
For now, fans still have South Park…for a while, anyway. “We always said, when we feel like we don’t want to write the show anymore, ourselves, then it’s time to end the show,” Parker explained the decision-making process.
The animated success has held a spot on Comedy Central for the last decade and wracked up impressive DVD sales over the years, which seems to show that fans are far from finished with Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
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- animated, comedy central, imaginationland, matt stone, movies, south park, team america: world police, trey parker
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