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South Park fans, after two years, the delay is nearly over. Not only is the Comedy Central hit returning in early 2022, but enthusiasts can also expect two new films at Paramount+. And creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone explained their ViacomCBS $900 million megadeal to The Hollywood Reporter while teasing the upcoming episodes, and future specials.
“It’s the boys dealing with a post-COVID world. They’re just trying to get back to normal,” Parker said. “So, it is like our show. We’re just trying to get back to normal.”
The duo inked their new deal in August, which is set to run through 2027. It’ll include 14 Paramount+ projects, along with a renewal for the show through Season 30. The projects, both creators clarified, are not feature films.
“With Viacom, we realized we could make them as long or as short as we needed,” Parker says of the upcoming projects. “And they then went and called them movies. They are the ones who said we are giving them 14 movies in seven years. All I can say is for me, personally, I am 52 years old, I have made three movies in my life. So you do the math.”
As for how long the show will go on, Stone says the duo is ready to take on whatever opportunities come their way. “We have been waiting to get canceled for 30 years,” Stone says. “It changes who is involved with it. But we have been dealing with this shit the whole time we have been making the show. And we can’t complain. Things have been going fine for us. It gives us fodder and gives us something to talk about.”
And what might those new seasons of South Park bring? The duo teased future storylines, both adding that the mood of the country tends to shape the show.
“We’re at where a lot of people are at, which is the future kind of sucks,” Stone said. “We would like to get back to where each week we can do something totally different. We tried to experiment with serialization. That had mixed results. And the past five or six years have been dominated by Trump, being political and the tonal change of society. And then the pandemic. We don’t want everything to be about the pandemic, but that is what is going on.”
