Late in the first Trump administration, Parker and Stone were developing a Donald Trump deepfake movie. Their plan: to graft his face onto another actor’s body and have him progressively lose his marbles, and then eventually his clothing. But the duo couldn’t get a studio to match the quality of the tech they needed. “A couple of effects houses in LA just kind of gave us the runaround. This has happened before in our career, where we go, ‘okay, well, we’ve got to go figure it out ourselves,'” Stone says.

So nobody could make convincing enough deep fakes of the 80 year old president, so we said fuck it and made our own!

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But no, really, that’s what fucking happened lol