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Kendrick Lamar’s pgLang, Trey Parker/Matt Stone, and Vernon Chatman Are Teaming Up for Dark Race Relations Comedy

January 14, 2022
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(via Deadline)

The names of Kendrick Lamar, South Park’s Matt Stone and Trey Parker, or Vernon Chatman are enough to spark a great deal of interest of whatever imaginative project very likely to have a pointed perspective just on their own. Together, it’s a boundless curiosity as to what they’ll come up with.

What Lamar long with pgLang partner Dave Free, Stone and Parker, and Vernon Chatman are developing is something that very well might be in the vein of I’m Sorry To Bother You or an episode of Atlanta, which is pretty damn enticing.

A script by Chatman follows a black-and-white interracial couple that has a black man working as a slave reenactor and his white girlfriend discovering she’s descended from slave owners. Other than it’ll be released by Paramount and it’s the first feature project from the mysterious creative agency pgLang, there are no other details, but we bet your wheels are spinning to wonder just how wild and subversive this project could possibly get.

South Park x pgLang x Vernon Chatman (who boasts several major award wins and carries credits ranging from Wonder Showzen to Conan to The Shivering Truth) ought to be something to behold whenever it comes out. That’s just one more thing to look forward to while the Omicron flavor of COVID-19 continues to do its dance.

Prepare for an Animated Surreal Anthology Comedy from Vernon Chatman Coming Soon to Adult Swim

August 8, 2018
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Prepare for an Animated Surreal Anthology Comedy from Vernon Chatman Coming Soon to Adult Swim

Vernon Chatman, the mind behind Wonder Showzen and partially behind The Heart, She Holler is joining in the wave of anthology series with a dark comedic bent.

Vernon’s sensibilities and humor are already a little on the twisted side (in a good way) and doing a stop motion animation show will probably allow to get a little more dark and twisted with this new show The Shivering Truth (just ordered to series today at Adult Swim). 

With a title like that, you can only imagine that it’ll probably have the feel of some of Casper Kelly’s work at Adult Swim. We wouldn’t be surprised at all if Kelly has a hand in it somehow.

Adult Swim Orders a Pilot of Vernon Chatman’s “The Shivering Truth”, a Stop-Motion ‘Dark Surreal Anthology Comedy’

May 22, 2017
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Adult Swim Orders a Pilot of Vernon Chatman’s “The Shivering Truth”, a Stop-Motion ‘Dark Surreal Anthology Comedy’

Given Chatman’s resume of South Park, Louie, Wonder Showzen, and The Heart She Holler, and an eclectic mix of many facets of comedy, one has to wonder if this project is the culmination of all of Chatman’s previous work.

What we imagine, at this stage, is a stop motion animation, probably like Anomalisa, take on Edgar Allen Poe with the darkly comic twist of Damian Szifron’s Wild Tales.

If anything like that comes out of the pilot process into being a show on Adult Swim, we’re on board.

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