Matt Stone and Trey Parker plan Scientology musical- Page 3

Posted: 4/29/13 at 9:37pm

Aren't all the Scientology character names and dogma protected by Hubbard's copyrights?

If not, I'm hoping either Nathan Lane or Danny Burstein plays Xenu, dictator of the Galactic Confederacy!

Xenu: Warrior Prince

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 4/29/13 at 10:02pm

Well, Book of Mormon also featured topics that they explored a lot on South Park and it was still good.

I'm not sure if anything can beat their Tom Cruise version of the "Trapped in the Closet" saga, though.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 4/29/13 at 11:52pm

Mel Brooks adapts his movies to full-length musicals. Trey Parker and Matt Stone are creating entirely new works. They're hardly comparable situations. People will probably see it out of curiosity, in a way that they didn't feel the need for with Young Frankenstein- airing on TCM, AMC and Reelz every weekend.

[ChairinMain]

Posted: 4/30/13 at 1:38am

So I think everyone's freaking out over something that may not even be happening. Anything that credits its info to "A Source" I take with a grain of salt. And this seems like a very obvious story: "OH Noes! Matt and Trey are doing Scientology again, like in that episode that was really famous, and it's a musical, like that musical they did, and Tom Cruise is pissed, like he was when they did the episode, and it's gonna be drama!"

Yeah, this seems...well, not farfetched, but I don't believe it's real. Matt and Trey love poking fun at mormons all the time, but they really only poked Scientology once (maybe twice if you count "Chef Returns") and have left it alone for the last few years.

[JohnyBroadway]

Posted: 4/30/13 at 1:51am

At least it's not a BOM sequel.

[Meyerschultz]

Posted: 4/30/13 at 2:13am

This whole thread is founded on a link to a questionable "article" on contactmusic.com. The "story" doesn't seem to exist anywhere else on the Internet, and one would reasonably think that word of two high profile TV writers, who created one of the biggest Broadway hits of the last decade, would be news that would catch on. The "article" has no indication of being anything but a load of bunk. Has contactmusic.com ever broken a story? Why does a story about Trey and Matt writing a musical about Scientology spend no time exploring that and instead focuses on Tom Cruise's supposed reaction to the idea of them writing such a musical? How'd he even hear about it when it doesn't even exist anywhere as news? The only earlier reference I found to this supposed musical is on a site that claims it was mentioned in the Star which of course is famous for its journalistic integrity. And why does the article finish off in a fashion completely unrelated to its opening hook? Because it's bull. It's totally possible that Matt and Trey are writing a musical about Scientology, but my money is on this story being some cobbled together fabrication based on multiple levels of hearsay from unreliable "sources." There isn't even a byline. I don't think this is worth anyone's time.

[rorschach37]

Posted: 4/30/13 at 12:50pm

Can we start throwing out potential titles?

How about "Xenudu"? x)