“South Park” creators
Why the deepfake film about Trump didn’t come about
Donald Trump probably wouldn’t have liked the deepfake film.
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The “South Park” makers had planned a film about Donald Trump with deep fake technology – but then the pandemic came.
The “South Park” makers Matt Stone (51) and Trey Parker (52) had planned a complete deepfake film with Donald Trump (76) in the involuntary leading role – however, the pandemic thwarted the idea at the last minute . The two revealed that in one Interview with the “Los Angeles Times”. Deepfakes are fake media content designed to appear realistic.
“Not many people know that we were just a day away from starting production on our first film since Team America: World Police. We wanted to start shooting the day the pandemic brought everything to a halt . Months and months of preparing for this film and then it was like, ‘No, it’s over’.”
The film is now “on hold” so to speak, but needs to be completely rethought, Parker explained. He was very topical and his time is now over. “We would have to completely rethink it to do it now.”
That’s what Deep Fake: The Movie was about
The two also gave some details: with the comedian Peter Serafinowicz (50) and their deepfake company Deep Voodoo, they worked on a concept called “Deep Fake: The Movie”. “It was about this guy who looked exactly like Trump because we deepfaked Trump’s face on him. It was a pretty funny story because of course it ends up with Trump getting naked through the mangle and all sorts of things, that’s why it was it’s so funny and timely.”
Matt Stone and Trey Parker are with their deepfake video “Sassy Justice” gone viral during the pandemic. In the 14 minutes of the film, a reporter named Fred Sassy, who looks exactly like Donald Trump, reports on the dangers of deepfake. The video now has over 2.5 million views.