Paramount has toyed with making a brand new Bare Gun film for a few years. Liam Neeson was the one man courageous sufficient to truly do it.
Within the movie he performs Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. (already a really humorous identify), the son of the unique Drebin, performed by Leslie Nielsen in three hilarious Bare Gun movies from the Nineties. Primarily based on the primary trailer for the brand new reboot/sequel, the brand new crew has maintained the identical tone of the earlier movies, spoofing cop films and foolish Hollywood cliches on the whole. And that O.J. Simpson joke … wow. That it is advisable to see for your self. (Should you’re not aware of the unique films, Simpson appeared in all three of them as Drevin’s accomplice, Nordberg.)
You possibly can watch the trailer beneath:
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The poster for the movie additionally pays homage to the primary Bare Gun trilogy on the whole and nearly precisely copies the pose that Leslie Niesen had in one of many posters for The Bare Gun 2 1/2: The Odor of Worry.
The brand new Bare Gun was directed by Akiva Schaffer, one-third of the Lonely Island, and maybe most significantly on this context, the director of the current Chip ’n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers film, which was itself mainly a spoof of legacyquel tradition. He’s the best man to do one thing like this. And Neeson is one other good alternative; a man who can do comedy (see his vocal work in The LEGO Film) and has made so many lethal severe motion films during the last 15 years, that he has a persona he could make enjoyable of on this context.
Right here is the brand new Bare Gun‘s official synopsis:
Just one man has the actual set of expertise… to steer Police Squad and save the world! Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. (Liam Neeson) follows in his father’s footsteps in THE NAKED GUN, directed by Akiva Schaffer (Saturday Night time Dwell, Popstar: By no means Cease By no means Stopping) and from producer Seth MacFarlane (Ted, Household Man). Becoming a member of the case are forged Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, CCH Pounder, Kevin Durand, Cody Rhodes, Liza Koshy, Eddie Yu, with Danny Huston.
The Bare Gun is scheduled to open in theaters on August 1 of this yr.
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