The film will depict the past and present coming to a head, when a young Black man who is interning as a slave reenactor at a living history museum discovers that his white girlfriend's ancestors once owned his.
Parker and Stone developed the deepfakes used in the music video for Lamar's promotional single "The Heart Part 5" (2022) through their artificial intelligence startup studio Deep Voodoo.
Chatman penned the screenplay, which Brian Robbins, president and chief executive officer of Paramount Pictures, called "one of the funniest and original scripts" he has ever read.
[6][7] Principal photography was initially scheduled to commence in the spring of 2022,[1] but was pushed back due to Parker and Stone's prior commitments to South Park.
[4] In an accompanying statement, Robbins wrote that the film studio and the wider ViacomCBS family were "look[ing] forward to ushering in the first theatrical collaboration from these creative visionaries, and galvanizing audiences worldwide around a powerful storytelling experience.