Remember when ‘South Park’ creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker said that they wouldn’t be featuring Donald Trump as President on the television show as he already did a good enough job of satirising himself?

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Well, it turns like they might not have featured Trump in ‘South Park’ but that hasn’t stopped them making a feature length movie about his antics. Parker revealed to The Los Angeles Times that the movie was all easy to go but had to be shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic – here’s what he had to say:

Not a lot of people know that we were a day away from starting production on the first feature movie we had done since Team America: World Police.

We were going to start shooting on the day that the pandemic shut everything down. It was months and months of getting ready for that movie, to just being like, ‘Nope, it’s over.’

I went to the office to start packing up my things because I was just kind of in shock.

There was a few weeks of just depression, and then I just got happy ’cause I’m like, ‘I’m just gonna hang out with my daughter and watch Harry Potter and build Legos.

And then Matt said, ‘Let’s go remote.

We spent our time working on the new series of ‘South Park’ for Paramount.

The Trump movie hasn’t been terminated, it’s just on hold at the moment.

Seems kinda weird that they wouldn’t just start shooting it at the first chance they could get considering all the prepatory work has already been done a long time ago, but I suppose there are some unforeseen circumstances that I haven’t considered or something? Anyway, it does sound like that movie would be an absolute hoot so I hope they manage to get to make it – seems like a real waste of time if they don’t.

For more of the same, check out when Vince Vaughn got cancelled for shaking hands with Trump. Bummer.