'Naked Gun' Reboot Trailer Shares First Look at Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson Team Up
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The Police Squad is back with a whole bunch of brand new faces. Paramount just released its first fill trailer for its upcoming revival of "The Naked Gun", starring Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin, Jr. and it's exactly the kind of goofball humor fans of the previous films have come to expect. You can watch the trailer below.
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Along with Neeson, the new "Naked Gun" stars Pamela Anderson, presumably as Neeson's love interest. Along with a chuckle worthy scene involving a chair, the trailer gives fans a funny shot where a fairly innocent oven cleaning is mixed up for something much more intimate between the characters.
Liam Neeson in "The Naked Gun."
Liam Neeson in "The Naked Gun."
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Also starring in the comedy are Paul Walter Hauser, Kevin Durand, Danny Huston, Liza Koshy, Cody Runnels and CCH Pounder.
The film is directed by Akiva Schaffer from a script by Schaffer, Dan Gregor, and Doug Mand. Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins serve as producers.
"The Naked Gun" was originally conceived from the writing team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, who were often known as ZAZ. They were looking to bring another spoof to the big screen after the 1980 hit "Airplane!"
Initially Paramount instead greenlit their police parody idea not as a film, but as the series "Police Squad!" Unfortunately "Police Squad!" was canceled after only a handful of episodes.
Eventually ZAZ realized the missing element to their concept was romance. One they added that into the script, Paramount greenlit "The Naked Gun" for the big screen.
"The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!" hit theaters in 1988 and did well, making $152 million against a production budget of $12 million. The film spawned two sequels, both of which turned a profit at the box office.
Last month, Pamela Anderson told Entertainment Weekly she's hoping the reboot gets to do follow-ups just like the original.
"I'm hoping people love it," Anderson said. "We had so much fun making it. I think it's timely for a beloved comedy like this. I'm a fan of the originals. As Liam [Neeson] says, 'We could all use a good giggle.' I pray we do more."
Anderson also said she loved working with Neeson and developed a close friendship with him. "We had many dinners out with the cast," Anderson recalled. "I invited him and his assistant over for romantic dinners with me and my assistant so our relationship stayed 'professionally romantic' during filming."
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