COMIC BRIEF ARTICLE
Wednesday, January 21st, 1998
South Park Creators Head for Big Screen
Trey & Matt star with Yasmine & Jenny.
TV Guide
It's a tough job, starring in a film with Yasmine Bleeth and Jenny McCarthy, but South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are apparently up to the task. They'll soon appear on the big screen in BASEketball, a comedy made by the Zucker brothers of Airplane! and Naked Gun fame. What's it about? "It totally parallels our lives," Parker told us. "I can see why they cast us now because it's about these sort of slacker-losers who create this game in their driveway that's a cross between basketball and baseball. It becomes, like, the biggest sport in the country, and all of a sudden we're huge sports stars. We have to deal with the fame and everything, and we get these beautiful women."
The animators are also kicking around ideas for a South Park movie. If a flick does get off the ground, expect it to push the envelope when it comes to the already outrageous antics of Cartman & Co. (Wednesdays, 10 p.m./ET, Comedy Central). "The only way we'll do it is if they let us do an R-rated movie," says Parker, noting that the Beavis and Butt-head film felt like little more than an extended MTV episode.Despite an ever-expanding empire of movie deals, soundtracks and even the ability to offer a voice-over part to "the chick from Species" (Natasha Henstridge, whom Parker and Stone admit they sought out to provide a vixenish voice in an upcoming episode), the South Park auteurs are keeping a watchful eye over their creations. "I really look at these boys as my children. I really do," says Parker. "And we're really protective of them. You know, we've had calls from Pepsi. We've been offered huge money for them to go on and say, 'Drink Coke.' We're not going to do it, because we couldn't." — Sk