Paramount Drops trailer for the naked gun restart

Thirty years after the last film The naked gun Crime-spoof comedy franchise, we finally get a new episode, The naked gundescribed as a “legacy sequel”. And it is Liam Neeson who enters the rumbling shoes of Leslie Nielsen and plays the son of that character. Based on the official trailer, Neeson is in the task and he presents his propeller beam comedy -carbonades.

(Some spoilers for the first three films in the franchise below.)

The original Naked Gun: From the files of Police Squad! Debuted in 1988, in which Leslie Nielsen played in the lead role as Detective Frank Drebin, who tried to strengthen a murder attack on Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to the US. It turned out to be successful enough to launch two sequels. Naked Gun 2-1/2: The smell of fear (1991) Dein found against a malignant plan to kidnap a prominent nuclear scientist. Naked Gun 33-1/3: The last insult (1994) found that Drebin came out of retirement and undercover went to remove a crime syndicate to blow up the Academy Awards.

The franchise then lost rather steam, but by 2013, Paramount was planning a reboot starring Ed Helms in the lead as “Frank Drebin, no relationship”. David Zucker, who produced the prior Nude gun Films and directed the first two, refused to be involved, the feeling that it could only be “inferior” for his originals. He was briefly involved in the 2017 reissions, with Frank's son as a secret agent instead of a police officer. That film never happened. The project was revived again in 2021 by Seth Macfarlane (without the involvement of Zucker), and Neeson was cast as Frank Drebin Jr. – A police – Lieutenant in this incarnation.

In addition to Neeson, the film Paul Walter Hauser plays as Captain Ed Hocken, Jr. – Hauser will also appear as a mole man in the coming Fantastic Four: First Steps—And Pamela Anderson as a sultry femme fatale named Beth. The cast also includes Kevin Durand, Danny Huston, Liza Koshy, Cody Rhodes, CCH Pounder, Busta Rhymes and Eddy Yu.