/ Kim Jong-il / Hans Blix / Matt Damon / Tim Robbins / Sean Penn / Michael Moore / Helen Hunt / Peter Jennings / Susan Sarandon / Drunk in Bar / Liv Tyler / Janeane Garofalo Matt Stone as Chris Roth / George Clooney / Danny Glover / Ethan Hawke / Martin Sheen Kristen Miller as Lisa Jones Masasa Moyo as Sarah Wong Daran Norris as Spottswoode Phil Hendrie as I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. / Chechen terrorist Maurice LaMarche as Alec Baldwin Chelsea Marguerite as a French mother Jeremy Shada as Jean Francois Fred Tatasciore as Samuel L. Jackson Greg Ballora, Scott Land, and Tony Urbano as Lead puppeteers The film also features a man dressed as a giant statue of Kim Il-sung, two black cats who pose as panthers, two nurse sharks, and a cockroach, with the difference in size with the marionettes played for humorous effect. A poster of the Barbi Twins was featured on the billboard in Times Square, making the Twins the only non-marionette humans in the film. Production Development The film's origins involve Parker and Stone watching Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Thunderbirds on television while bored. Parker found that the series was unable to hold his interest as a child because "the dialogue was so expository and slow, and it took itself really seriously". The duo inquired about the rights to the series and found out that Universal Studios was doing a Thunderbirds film directed by Jonathan Frakes. "We said, 'What? Jonathan Frakes is directing puppets?' and then we found out it was a live-action version, and we were disappointed," said Parker. News broke of the duo signing on to create the film on October 17, 2002, with Stone revealing that it would be a homage to Anderson. The news was confirmed in June 2003, with Variety quoting Stone as saying "What we wanted was to do a send-up of these super important huge action movies that Jerry Bruckheimer makes." Before production began, Team America was championed at Paramount Pictures by Scott Rudin, who had been the executive producer for Parker and Stone's previous film, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. After the "hassle" of producing the South Park film, Parker and Stone had vowed never to create another movie. Other studio executives were initially unenthusiastic about the project: the studio was in favor of the film's lack of political correctness, but were confused by the use