Having spoofed Gerry Anderson’s ‘Supermarionation’ with Team America: World Police, South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker reportedly plan to venture into Godzilla territory. According to Daily Variety, the duo is teaming with Nickelodeon Movies to produce Giant Monsters Attack Japan!, which will combine live actors and rubber-suit monster action, a genre known as Kaiju in Japan. Production is slated to begin in 2007 during a hiatus from South Park, which kicks off its 10th Season this Wednesday.
While Stone and Parker wrote, directed and produced their previous features, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut and the aforementioned Team America, their Paramount-based production shingle, Important Pictures, is now seeking projects from other writers and will tap other directors. Giant Monsters Attack Japan! is written by J.F. Lawton, who scripted the Julia Roberts favorite Pretty Woman, the Steven Segall hit Under Siege and the recently released DOA: Dead or Alive, based on the video game series from Tecmo and directed by Hong Kong action auteur Corey Yuen. Giant Monsters will be directed by Parker with Stone producing.
Currently on Stone’s and Parker’s production plate is a live-action high-school comedy titled All-American, which Parker will direct and Stone will produce from a script by Jeff Roda. Both films will mark a departure for Stone and Parker, who are best known for their R-Rated, take-no-prisoners social satire. With Nickelodeon’s involvement, the new projects will obviously aim for the PG crowd.
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