Anyone planning to celebrate July 4 at the theater watching Kendrick Lamar’s untitled collaboration with “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone will have to make other plans.
The Wrap reports the Paramount comedy, which was slated to for a 2025 release, will now arrive on March 20, 2026, per an announcement from the studio.
Described by Paramount as an “original live-action comedy,” Lamar, Parker and Stone’s project is taken from a script by Vernon Chatman.
Producers for the feature include the Compton rhymeslayer and Dave Free via their company pgLang, while Stone and Parker serve as producers producing for Park County.
News of the yet-to-be titled movie goes back to last year’s CinemaCon, when Paramount film chief Brian Robbins called it “one of the funniest and most original scripts we’ve ever read.”
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The film marks Parker and Stone’s first big-screen work in more than two decades. The pair’s last feature was the 2004 puppet-filled laughter “Team America: World Police.” Prior to that came their Oscar-nominated hit, 1999’s “South Park” movie “Bigger, Longer & Uncut.”
As for Lamar, his movie resume consists of the 2025 Lego-fied Pharrell Williams documentary “Piece by Piece” as well as overseeing and contributing musically to the soundtrack for Marvel Studios’ 2018 blockbuster “Black Panther.”
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