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Best News I've Heard All Week -- "Team America" release date pushed forward!!

post #1 of 10
6/17/04 at 4:37pm
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Variety reports that Paramount Pictures has sky-high hopes that action spoof "Team America" by "South Park" honchos Trey Parker and Matt Stone can be ready for a pre-election release.
Though it hasn't been given an official opening date yet, "Team America" has generated positive buzz since it began shooting last month. The studio's best-case scenario for the film, starring marionettes and produced by Scott Rudin and Stone, would be an Oct. 22 release for the film, which would serve as an R-rated comic tonic to the barrage of election news this fall.
Story - written by "South Park" scribes Parker, Stone and Pam Brady -- centers on a prototypical action hero who's drafted to help Team America thwart the world's evil forces. Much of the cast will get splintered. Parker and Stone have been shooting the movie during a break from their Comedy Central series "South Park." Pic will cost roughly $20 million.
Two of America's funniest satirists strike again, and right in the heat of elections! We can only ponder if Matt and Trey are trying to pull a Michael Moore by releasing this film in October or if this decision is strictly related to business. Eitherway, I'm already counting down the days.
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post #2 of 10
6/17/04 at 4:41pm
Your post: 3:37pm
Our Update: 2:30pm

http://chud.com/news/june04/june17team.php3
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post #3 of 10
6/17/04 at 4:43pm
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Originally posted by devincf
It would be really weird if this same story had been on the main page for a couple of hours.
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post #4 of 10
6/17/04 at 4:58pm
Damn. A puppet version of Day After Tomorrow would have been sweet.
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post #5 of 10
6/17/04 at 5:00pm
Before today, I had no idea this flick was even being made. Because I suck. But I'm still really great, actually. Even though I suck.
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post #6 of 10
6/17/04 at 5:04pm
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Sorry guys.

I never meant to give you the impression that, by reposting this news on the message boards, I was trying somehow to undermine the site's reputation. My sole intention was to hear feedback from other people on this, cause I for one am extremely stoked that "Team America" will be coming out this year. This is indeed the best news I've heard in a long, long time.

Had I not seen this news posted on the main page, I swear that I would have sent it to you guys first instead of posting it down here. Please trust me on that.

So with this in mind, does anyone think that the decision to release this film on or around the 22nd of October is meant to influence public opinion on the elections? Do you think that "Team America" will be as much of a satire as "South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut" is? Or will this film simply be an exercise in "dumb comedy" like "Orgazmo"?
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post #7 of 10
6/17/04 at 5:14pm
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post #8 of 10
6/17/04 at 5:16pm
God dammit. Between all the high profile comic book movies coming out and low profile stuff like Man-Thing I thought this was about the Team America Marvel comic. They'd cameo in Captain American sometimes too.

I still have issue three of Team America, it had a huge preview for a new upcoming comic called GI Joe.
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post #9 of 10
6/17/04 at 10:15pm
This is my most anticipated film for the second half of the year.
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post #10 of 10
6/17/04 at 10:20pm
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