Did ‘The Ringer’ rip-off ‘South Park’?
When I first saw the trailer for the new Johnny Knoxville comedy, The Ringer, which opens today, I thought to myself, “That’s just like that episode of ‘South Park.’”
Apparently that’s just what Ricky Blitt, the movie’s screenwriter, was afraid of. In a recent issue of Entertainment Weekly, Blitt claims he pitched the idea to “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s company several years before the “South Park” episode, “Up the Down Steroid,” aired.
Why wait until The Ringer’s release to set the record straight? “I don’t want to be known as the hack that ripped these guys off,” Blitt said.
Stone says that’s ridiculous: “I don’t have a problem with him letting people know that he didn’t rip it off. But just don’t accuse us the other way.”
‘Ringer’ of Truth [EW.com]
