Kendrick Lamar: New Details Surface On Debut Movie With 'South Park' Creators

Kendrick Lamar‘s debut movie is reportedly titled Whitney Springs and will star Chloe East and Celeste Octavia.

New details on the eagerly anticipated project surfaced on Wednesday (March 5), revealing that the film is set to premiere on Paramount+ on July 11.

The live-action comedy is being produced by Kendrick and his longtime creative partner Dave Free, along with South Park creators Matt Parker and Trey Stone. The latter will also direct.

A poster circulating social media suggests that the Compton rapper (who has previous acting experience in 50 Cent‘s TV series Power) may also star in the movie, although that has yet to be confirmed.

New Kendrick Lamar comedy movie titled “Whitney Springs” out July 11th📍

On Paramount+

– “A black man interning as a slave re-enactor at a living history museum finds out that his white girlfriend’s ancestors once owned his.”

directed by Trey Parker the creator of ‘South Park’… pic.twitter.com/P3qrh4GN34

— SOUND | Victor Baez (@itsavibe) March 5, 2025

Whitney Springs follows a Black man interning as a slave re-enactor at a history museum who finds out that his white girlfriend’s ancestors once owned his.

East is best known for her role in last year’s horror film Heretic, while she also starred in Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans and the HBO Max show Generations.

Meanwhile, Octavia is a relatively unknown actress and model who has previously doubled for Madonna and starred in music videos for the likes of Oasis and Depeche Mode.

Last year, Kendrick Lamar was spotted in production on the film, shooting scenes in Pomona, California.

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Brian Robbins, CEO of Paramount Pictures, which owns the distribution rights to the movie, described it as “one of the funniest and most original scripts we’ve ever read and it’s certain to create some fireworks” at CinemaCon last year.

Kendrick has worked with Stone and Parker in the past for his “The Heart Part 5” music video in 2022.

The South Park duo worked on the deepfake technology present in the clip, which saw Kendrick morph into a number of famous figures such as Kobe Bryant, Will Smith and OJ Simpson.

In an interview with The New York Times Magazine, Stone revealed there were other deepfakes which did not make the cut: “You see Kendrick turned into 2Pac, Kendrick turned into Kanye, and I think we had Eminem.”