SUBMITTED BY Typhon24

June 25, 2003 —

Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of 'South Park', have come back to Paramount Pictures for their next flick, 'Team America'. "We will be sophisticated and employ all modern technology," producer Scott Rudin told Variety. "We have gone well beyond the paper cutouts used in the last movie. Here, the entire cast will be made of wood!"

Written by "Park" scribes Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Pam Brady and directed by Parker, R-rated puppet comedy Team America is a send-up of what they feel is an increasingly brainless action genre. "I hate all these new Hollywood films that are CGI-driven," says Stone. "Trey and I loved that 'Thunderbirds' series because of the artistry of the marionettes...Our cast will be deliberately made of wood, but that will only be taking to the extreme what is evident in many Hollywood movies right now."

The inspiration for the cast is the British series Thunderbirds, the inspiration for a Universal-Working Title film now in production. The plot will involve the prototypical action hero, who's drafted to help Team America thwart the world's evil forces. The movie idea was the byproduct of an even more daring movie idea the team came up with. The duo will shoot the movie when they take a break from the next cycle of the South Park series. The film will cost in the vicinity of the "Park" film, which cost $20 million and grossed $60 million.

"What we wanted was to do a send-up of these super important huge action movies that Jerry Bruckheimer makes," Stone said. "It started when we got snuck a script of 'The Day After Tomorrow,' that Roland Emmerich movie about how global warming causes an ice age in two days. It's the kind of script where you know it's going to make hundreds of millions of dollars, which makes it the greatest dumb script ever. We planned to secretly shoot that movie with puppets, word for word, and release it on the same day. We thought that would have been hilarious but our lawyer convinced us we wouldn't get it released."