We almost got another ‘South Park’ movie…

Kind of bittersweet revelation.

Entertainment Weekly ran an interview with the producers of South Park whereby Matt Stone and Trey Parker talked about a lot of things. Turns out, South Park: Fractured But Whole wasn’t even a consideration at one point as a game, and instead, we were close to a second South Park movie.

You’re saying a lot of people came to this series through the last game. Are video games a major part of your vision of South Park?

PARKER: It’s not something we can ignore. We’re gamers, and gaming is such a big part of South Park. That’s why we treat this seriously. We treat this like a movie. We could have done a movie, instead of this, but we chose to do it as a game instead.

When you say, “We could have”…

PARKER: I don’t know if we would’ve made a superhero movie, necessarily. Just time-wise, if we were going to do another big thing, we could’ve said, “Let’s make that other big thing a South Park movie.”

Fuck…I mean. No…Fuck. I kinda would have liked to have seen a new South Park movie given that it’s been almost 20 years since we got the first one. That said, I am looking forward to the game given that it’s coming later this year. But man…could you imagine?

Oh yea, and that whole bit about South Park potentially being just a video game? The show has new seasons coming until 2019, so if that were to happen, it’d be a while.