South Park Creators Talk Book Of Mormon Film: 'It's Something We Want To Do'

Since its very first show on the Broadway stage in 2011, Tony-award winning play The Book Of Mormon has sold out shows around the world and talk of bringing the production to the big screen has been speculated for some time. 

In a rare podcast interview with IGN, the creators of the show and popular animated TV program South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, expressed that they would love to work on a feature film adaptation of the stage play in the future. 

"It’s something we want to do," Stone said. 

"We don’t have any specific plans but yeah, we’d love to do it at some point."

Parker said the fact that the show has received worldwide acclaim and is currently being performed around the US and in England, (as well as the recent announcement that it would also be heading to Australia in 2017) makes him want to do it all over again. 

"It’s going on in three different places in three hours and like, now there’s a bunch of people in it that we’ve never met before," he said of the ever-changing cast. 

"Just being able to kind of get a definitive version back together sounds like a good thing...Everything about it sounds fun, we just haven’t really talked about it that much yet."

And while the comedy duo's next venture will see them working on a sequel to their highly acclaimed South Park video game released last year, entitled South Park: The Fractured but Whole, Parker and Stone touched on the iconic TV show that is celebrating 18 years since its first episode. 

"It’s pretty crazy – every season, about three shows in we’re like ‘OK, this should be our last season’…and then we go away for a couple of months and we’re like, ‘It was pretty good, let’s do it again,'" Parker said, adding, "We’re just whiney babies."

They are set to commence production on the 19th season shortly and while they have agreed to complete season 20 by next year, the future of South Park is still up in there. 

Chatting about a potential final episode, Parker laughed: "I think it’s gonna end with a fizzle for sure."  

"Some dud and we’re gonna go ‘Fuck this, man’ and walk away."

Making light of the constant controversies surrounding the show since it's inception, Parker said: "We’ve been waiting to get cancelled for 18 fucking years!"