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Aug 9, 2022 · College buddies Trey Parker and Matt Stone needed a theme song for their upcoming TV show, an irreverent cartoon about four foul-mouthed young boys in a Colorado mountain town called South Park.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone met in film class at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1992. Stone was a math major, and Parker was a music major, but they shared a love for the band Primus and Monty Python. When they first met in undergrad, Trey Parker was already working on a film called Giant Beavers of Southern Sri Lanka. "It was sort of a Go...
Once Parker grew close to Stone, they came up with a seemingly better idea. The film department screened student films at the end of each semester, and the next set of screenings would be held right before Christmas. And so, the inspiration for a holiday-themed project was born. With just some construction paper, scissors, and glue, they created a ...
Parker and Stone premiered The Spirit of Christmas at their school in December 1992 before turning their attention to their debut movie, Cannibal! The Musical. All thoughts of the project might have been lost had it not been for Fox executive Brian Graden, who caught up with the pair at a screening of their new indie film. After viewing the studen...
Over 25 years later and South Park is still on the air. Nowadays, Trey acts mostly as the creative showrunner, whereas Matt has taken on a larger role in the business side of things. Thankfully, the pair also still voice most of the leads. Even today, the process of debuting each new episode is nothing short of grueling. Those wanting an inside vie...
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Aug 5, 2021 · South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have signed a $900 million deal with parent company ViacomCBS, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The outlet categorized it as “one of the richest...
Apr 11, 2024 · Matt Stone and Trey Parker are combining forces with rapper Kendrick Lamar for a live-action comedy feature from Paramount Pictures. During its presentation Thursday at CinemaCon in Las Vegas,...
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Oct 27, 2021 · Trey Parker and Matt Stone gave fans a glimpse of the upcoming pair of 'South Park' films dropping on Paramount+ this year.
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Jun 25, 2024 · Selected from hundreds of nominations, the Class of 2025 includes household names in animation: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators and executive producers of South Park.
Randolph Severn "Trey" Parker III (born October 19, 1969) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, and musician. [1] [2] He is best known for co-creating South Park (since 1997) and The Book of Mormon (2011) with his creative partner Matt Stone .
