South Park Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone Reportedly Enlist the Services of a 'Bulldog Negotiator' as Row Over Reported $3 Billion Deal Threatens Season 27 Release Date

The planned South Park Season 27 premiere is reportedly successful uncertainty arsenic bid creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Paramount Global, and incoming workplace proprietor Skydance combat implicit a woody said to beryllium worthy a whopping $3 billion.

Earlier this month, Parker and Stone expressed their vexation astatine Paramount’s determination to hold the premiere of Season 27 for 2 weeks successful a societal media station that wouldn’t person been retired of spot successful the amusement itself.

“This merger is simply a s**tshow and it’s f**king up South Park,” the brace said successful a associated statement. “We are astatine the workplace moving connected caller episodes and we anticipation the fans get to spot them somehow.”

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Season 26 debuted implicit 2 years agone successful March 2023 with lone six episodes, with different 3 one-off episodes coming retired betwixt October of that twelvemonth and March 2024.

Now, according to an in-depth study by The Hollywood Reporter, the ongoing quality revolves astir a caller 10-year, $3 cardinal wide woody for Parker and Stone “that would much than triple the valuation of the existent woody that expires successful 2027.”

So what happens next? Apparently it’s “increasingly likely” the quality ends up successful court, arsenic Parker and Stone person enlisted the services of 1 Bryan Freedman, “a salient lawyer and bulldog negotiator known for assertive ineligible maneuvering.” The menace present is simply a suit accusing Skydance of interfering successful declaration negotiations.

Skydance reportedly insists it has support rights connected contracts (it's inactive seeking the go-ahead for its merger with Paramount). Apparently the magnitude of the projected caller woody is excessively agelong for Skydance, which wants to stay agile.

Season 27 is meant to motorboat connected July 23, but that present feels up successful the air. South Park streaming deals expired connected June 30, which successful crook caused the home woody with Warner Bros. Discovery to widen to support the amusement connected HBO Max. However, South Park was pulled from Paramount+’s internationally past week.

Check retired The Hollywood Reporter’s nonfiction for each the details.

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