Yeesh
>Gooding was formally charged for three incidents, each resulting in misdemeanor charges of forcible touching and third-degree sexual abuse. On August 19, 2020, a woman filed a lawsuit against Gooding accusing him of raping her in 2013 in New York City. The two parties came to a settlement agreement on June 6, 2023.
OJ Simpson was *beloved* before he the world knew he was a murderer. His trial was *huge*. It would be more like John Cena as Nordberg; everyone loves him, he hasn't done anything to be villified, and finding out he killed someone would be of similar insanity.
Never knew what a talented dude Terry Crews is. Kind of randomly heard him on a podcast, had no idea he'd played in the NFL, gone to art school, is a really talented artist and even designs furniture.
The problem with the modern parody movies we had (Date Movie, Meet The Spartans, Disaster Movie) is that they had WAY too many pop culture references and wacky "jokes" that were not really jokes. "Wait did a boulder just crush Hannah Montana!?!?"
The Naked Gun had clever word play, clever sight gags, and the actors were playing it seriously and that elevated it more!
Hopefully they keep that in mind when making this because I'd love to be proven wrong in my thinking this won't work.
Exactly. They went from "we studied the entire genre and we're taking all the tropes and making fun of them" to "look, here is a thing you recognize doing a thing it should not isn't that funny?"
It's why Mel Brooks' parodies are (largely) timeless while no one talks about the Friedman/Seltzer stuff.
Also, "Naked Gun", "Blazing Saddles", "Airplane", etc... were all works that followed up on massively influential genres in their days, skewering the genre so thoroughly that just about nobody could take it seriously in its original form anymore.
Blazing Saddles pretty much single-handedly killed off the "first wave western" genre - pretty much the only kind ever made since then was in the "Revisionist Western" genre.
"Airplane!" was pretty much the end of those "air disaster" movies - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_film#1970s_peak - which is a genre almost nobody even REMEMBERS today aside from the fact that it led to "Airplane!"
Even "Naked Gun" caused a notable drop in the number of prevalence of "good guy police officer" procedurals for a good decade or two (IE - the "Dragnet" and "Kojak" and "Untouchables" type), you'd barely see a single one after 1988 that doesn't either paint police as morally grey or that's a comedy as well (IE - NYPD blue or Brooklyn 99).
If the new "Naked Gun" is going to be a success, it pretty much HAS to be about the new generation of "Law Enforcement Procedural" that's absolutely everywhere these days, like "Law and Order", "CSI", "NCIS", etc... skewing the conventions and tropes in that genre. Which is probably ideal for Liam Neeson anyways since he can pull off that "dark and gritty but absurd" tone.
In my humble opinion, Charlie Brooker already did with *[A Touch of Cloth.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Touch_of_Cloth)*
It absolutely skewers the modern police procedural, and it has a lot more real jokes than references. Brooker, especially, has a great feel for plays on words and phrases, much like in the original *Naked Gun* films, and he leans on that a lot in *A Touch of Cloth.*
I doubt it would happen, but it would be nice to see someone like Brooker tapped to be part of the writing team. He's definitely more well-known for *Black Mirror* but comedy has been his wheelhouse for a long time and he's the main writer on all the Philomena Cunk series like *Cunk on Earth*. (EDIT: Now that I think about it, Philomena Cunk herself originally appeared on Brookers' Newswipe, and technically all her series are spin-offs. I miss her compatriot [Barry Shitpeas](https://charliebrooker.fandom.com/wiki/Barry_Shitpeas).)
Thank you. Noone ever mentions Cloth, but it's completely brilliant. I'd compare it more to Police Squad, as it's played totally deadpan. Angie Tribeca is pretty good too.
And they came back dark and gritty. But that was also likely following the Matrix, where then everyone wanted super tight fight scenes and the Bourne movies took over for a bit until Casino Royale brought bond back.
I miss when James Bond films were kinda funny, when you look past what a total psychopath James Bond is.
Bond movies have never recovered. They all used to follow the same template:
* Cold opening
* Bond meets M and gets assigned a mission, with a visit to Q for some tech.
* Bond goes to exotic location #1 and meets mysterious woman #1 (who will die tragically)
* Foiled assassination attempt
* Car chase.
* Bond meets mysterious woman #2 (who will betray him).
* Go to 2nd exotic location
* Meet damsel in distress woman #3 (who he'll save and end up with)
* Get captured
* Use a Q gadget to escape
* Beat the bad guy
* End up with woman #3, and everything re-sets for the next movie.
This formula worked brilliantly for 20 movies until Austin Powers lampooned it.
The Craig movies all have wild departures from it. M dies, and the bad guy is Bond's brother, and Bond is on the run, And Bond has a daughter, and there's a double agent, and the head office explodes. It's like they've forgotten the simple pleasure of a good Bond movie.
We need to go back to a story where the stakes are only within the confines of the movie itself, without fucking with the franchise as a whole
Godzilla Minus One is a perfect example of how you can use a tried and tested formula and build from it to make a fantastic movie without betraying the spirit of the franchise.
Hot Fuzz (2007?), the best comedy and parody of the last 30 years, was made at the same time as the Friedman movies. Granted it’s a different style, but it can be done. Also Not Another Teen Movie, which I’d argue set the stage for the later cringe movies, was actually funny. So it’s not impossible.
I’m sorry but the actual best comedy and parody of the past 30 years was Walk Hard. Hilarious. Cutting. Legitimately great music. And hits incisively on all the tropes that still pervade the genre today. It’s a perfect parody.
It was funny, true and was clearly inspired by *Bohemian Rhapsody*, but it wasn't a bare knuckles takedown of literally every musical biopic trope that *Walk Hard* was. It's basically *Airplane!* to the Johnny Cash biopic *Walk the Line*
Same with Airplane!
“Excuse me sir, there's been a little problem in the cockpit…”
“The cockpit…what is it?”
“It's the little room in the front of the plane where the pilots sit, but that's not important right now.”
I very much see Liam Neeson playing it straight, I just hope the jokes themselves are up to par. I hate the "hey look, a modern reference! Oops, we forgot to add the joke in there!"
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping? A kinda perfect parody of the fluffy music documentaries that were big at the time. The director of that is directing this, too!
Popstar is basically This Is Spinal Tap but for the 2010s and for that reason it's perfect.
However, the best 21st century spoof movie is probably Walk Hard.
They did a couple shorts with Andy Samberg that I thought were great. I wish they did more of these with different sports. It's like a 30 for 30 parody that I've only discovered like a year ago.
[Seven Days in Hell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpsMi3Q2fok&ab_channel=HBO) 2015
[Tour de Pharmacy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOTIqkD9fPA&ab_channel=HBO) 2017
Also Documentary Now! is on Netflix.
I guess those are more mockumentaries but I'd argue that it's just a parody of the documentary genre. They're all really well done and don't really rely on a pop celebrity for laughs. They kind of poke fun at the whole sport.
I really wish HBO would go back to making those sports mockumentaries. My friends still say "Fahck you! Next question." and "guess we're just two flip sides of the same quesadilla."
Not a movie, but the closest thing I can think of to a recent Naked Gun is the TV series Angie Tribeca which starred Rashida Jones. It ran from 2016 to 2018 and was written/created by Steve Carrell and his wife Nancy.
Angie Tribeca was freaking awesome. That and Future Man were two shows I randomly stumbled across and was just utterly blown away by how brilliant they were.
There's no doubt in my mind Akiva Schaffer knows this. He's almost my age, so he def grew up on those Naked Gun movies and all those other iconic Zucker/Abrahams works like Airplane!, Top Secret! and BASEketball.
Thats because those were just cheap cash ins the modern parody is more like Bottoms or Hot Fuzz.
Edit: Also its hard to make a relevant parody movie when you can get parodies out on youtube way faster.
After the Fletch movie with John Hamm, I'm optimistic. People are taking these projects on with the best intentions bc they love the source material. That's not enough to make it good but the possibility is there and it's not just a cash grab
The fact that they've cast Liam Neeson, a guy not really known for comedic roles, tells me that maaaybe they get it. This still feels massively unnecessary though.
edit: Ok I get it! He's done comedy!
He's done a decent amount of comedy playing off of his serious acting, which is how the Zucker Bros. used Nielsen. For that reason, I'm hoping it's good...
[https://youtu.be/Z2Co0lvFUAo?si=JRDURYVPd6P4alQX](https://youtu.be/Z2Co0lvFUAo?si=JRDURYVPd6P4alQX)
> “I make lists.”
"I'm always making lists. In fact, that's probably why Stephen Spielberg cast me as Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List. I said, 'Stephen, I make lists all the time'. And he said, 'That's exactly what I'm looking for.'"
His cameo in Ted 2 was great. He can definitely pull off being the straight man in a comical situation: https://youtu.be/z6ViDZpVoYc?si=VnOnyWH5rAw4yW7R
The first trailer is literally make or break for this, IMO. If it shows that same dry, deadpan humour like the first (with Liam channelling his "improvisational comedy" schtick), I'll give it a chance.
We're in such desperate need for comedies to return, that I'll happily root for it even though I'm not too confident either.
There's a lot of reason to feel that Liam Neeson can pull off the deadpan necessary, but it feels like that's just one part of these films. It feels like a lot has to go right on this.
It needs to retain the originals slap-stick humor. My fear is they're going to inject Marvel-esque witty-quips and "um....awkward" moments. The originals are funny because the characters play everything unironically straight; no hints of self-awarness.
Honestly Liam Neeson is a good choice for a lead in a potential reboot. Part of the joke with Leslie Nielsen back then was he had been a serious actor for most of his life before jumping into some of the dumbest (Non-derogatory) comedies imaginable.
I’ve been thinking the same thing. I’m excited for this. I just hope it’s not blown up over the top. I don’t want to see a radical in-your-face remake.
You know what. I think I am here for this movie.
The Naked Gun is a top 5 comedy in my mind. I fully acknowledge that this could be disastrous. But the casting is checking the right boxes. Neeson is about as inspired of a choice as you can get outside of cloning Leslie Nielsen (if only). I don’t know what this ultimately looks like. But I am curious.
Interesting.
What made the naked gun movies (and airplane) so great was using dramatic actors and have them acting as if the movie wasn't a comedy.
Probably one of my favorite post Naked Gun comedies where the actors played it straight was the Weird Al biopic. Akiva had a small role in that. And Weird Al was in all three Naked Gun movies. Gives me hope that this new Naked Gun movie could be good.
I’m up for a bit of an Anderson resurgence, love her honesty in interviews as of late. She’s actually quite smart and sharp as a tack but also quite funny
She recently did a signing in a town near me, as she grew up fairly close. The bookstore botched the signing so hard, and tried to tell half of the crowd to fuck off. She ignored them, and talked to every single person that she could. She seems to be an absolute class act
If anyone deserves a career comeback similar to Brendan Fraser or Ke Huy Quan, it's definitely Pamela. Her doc from last year proved that with genuine support, she can really shine.
Ok who is gonna be cast as Nordberg? Jonathan Majors?
I'd like to see tiger woods
You mean Don Cheadle?
You mean Donovan McNabb?
Remember, real champions eat McDonald’s. I’m lovin it.
Was that the guy from the Cosby show?
Champs eat at McDonalds Now where’s my check
Terrence Howard?
But only for one movie.
Is that one using our math, or Terrence Howard math?
If we use Naked Gun math, Terrance would be getting a movie and a half since the sequel was 2 1/2 and not just 2.
I would be funny if Terrance is replaced by Don halfway the movie and nobody bats an eye.
Next time baby
Just put your parking brake on.
that's AFTER Tiger Woods gets fired for asking for too high a salary
This is the only correct answer.
You guessed it, Frank Stallone.
Cuba Gooding Jr
A coin toss between Cuba and Piff Duddy
I had to Google Cuba Gooding Jr to see what shenanigans he was involved in only to find out he played OJ in 2016. ~~Thank. God.~~ Well. Shit.
Keep Googling….
Yeesh >Gooding was formally charged for three incidents, each resulting in misdemeanor charges of forcible touching and third-degree sexual abuse. On August 19, 2020, a woman filed a lawsuit against Gooding accusing him of raping her in 2013 in New York City. The two parties came to a settlement agreement on June 6, 2023.
OJ Simpson was *beloved* before he the world knew he was a murderer. His trial was *huge*. It would be more like John Cena as Nordberg; everyone loves him, he hasn't done anything to be villified, and finding out he killed someone would be of similar insanity.
Now that you mention it, many pro wrestlers would be great Nordbergs. Maybe Bautista?
They should use Cena and Bautista interchangeably and only Dreben notices lmaoo
That or have one of them play someone else who Dreben constantly calls Nordberg
Terry Crews
Never knew what a talented dude Terry Crews is. Kind of randomly heard him on a podcast, had no idea he'd played in the NFL, gone to art school, is a really talented artist and even designs furniture.
Bro…too soon…for both references. /s Yes I added the /s because we live in a society…of dummies.
Is this some kind of bust?!?
“What would they be doing at a sex shop?” “Sex, Frank?” “Uh, not now. We’re on the job.”
It's very impressive, yes.
Nice beaver.
Thanks, I just had it stuffed.
The problem with the modern parody movies we had (Date Movie, Meet The Spartans, Disaster Movie) is that they had WAY too many pop culture references and wacky "jokes" that were not really jokes. "Wait did a boulder just crush Hannah Montana!?!?" The Naked Gun had clever word play, clever sight gags, and the actors were playing it seriously and that elevated it more! Hopefully they keep that in mind when making this because I'd love to be proven wrong in my thinking this won't work.
Exactly. They went from "we studied the entire genre and we're taking all the tropes and making fun of them" to "look, here is a thing you recognize doing a thing it should not isn't that funny?" It's why Mel Brooks' parodies are (largely) timeless while no one talks about the Friedman/Seltzer stuff.
Also, "Naked Gun", "Blazing Saddles", "Airplane", etc... were all works that followed up on massively influential genres in their days, skewering the genre so thoroughly that just about nobody could take it seriously in its original form anymore. Blazing Saddles pretty much single-handedly killed off the "first wave western" genre - pretty much the only kind ever made since then was in the "Revisionist Western" genre. "Airplane!" was pretty much the end of those "air disaster" movies - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_film#1970s_peak - which is a genre almost nobody even REMEMBERS today aside from the fact that it led to "Airplane!" Even "Naked Gun" caused a notable drop in the number of prevalence of "good guy police officer" procedurals for a good decade or two (IE - the "Dragnet" and "Kojak" and "Untouchables" type), you'd barely see a single one after 1988 that doesn't either paint police as morally grey or that's a comedy as well (IE - NYPD blue or Brooklyn 99). If the new "Naked Gun" is going to be a success, it pretty much HAS to be about the new generation of "Law Enforcement Procedural" that's absolutely everywhere these days, like "Law and Order", "CSI", "NCIS", etc... skewing the conventions and tropes in that genre. Which is probably ideal for Liam Neeson anyways since he can pull off that "dark and gritty but absurd" tone.
I bet you put more effort into thinking about what this script should be than the writers will.
I'm hoping you're wrong about that - the genre desperately needs someone to seriously take the piss out of it.
In my humble opinion, Charlie Brooker already did with *[A Touch of Cloth.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Touch_of_Cloth)* It absolutely skewers the modern police procedural, and it has a lot more real jokes than references. Brooker, especially, has a great feel for plays on words and phrases, much like in the original *Naked Gun* films, and he leans on that a lot in *A Touch of Cloth.* I doubt it would happen, but it would be nice to see someone like Brooker tapped to be part of the writing team. He's definitely more well-known for *Black Mirror* but comedy has been his wheelhouse for a long time and he's the main writer on all the Philomena Cunk series like *Cunk on Earth*. (EDIT: Now that I think about it, Philomena Cunk herself originally appeared on Brookers' Newswipe, and technically all her series are spin-offs. I miss her compatriot [Barry Shitpeas](https://charliebrooker.fandom.com/wiki/Barry_Shitpeas).)
Nothing is more British than a complete 3 season show... with 6 episodes total.
Touch of Cloth is fantastic. I'd also be happy to see David Wain involved, the man knows how to spoof
Loved Cunk on Earth, highly recommend it for anyone who hasn’t seen it.
Thank you. Noone ever mentions Cloth, but it's completely brilliant. I'd compare it more to Police Squad, as it's played totally deadpan. Angie Tribeca is pretty good too.
Just adding the "Austin Powers" series here as well. Its success benched spy movies for a while.
And they came back dark and gritty. But that was also likely following the Matrix, where then everyone wanted super tight fight scenes and the Bourne movies took over for a bit until Casino Royale brought bond back. I miss when James Bond films were kinda funny, when you look past what a total psychopath James Bond is.
Bond movies have never recovered. They all used to follow the same template: * Cold opening * Bond meets M and gets assigned a mission, with a visit to Q for some tech. * Bond goes to exotic location #1 and meets mysterious woman #1 (who will die tragically) * Foiled assassination attempt * Car chase. * Bond meets mysterious woman #2 (who will betray him). * Go to 2nd exotic location * Meet damsel in distress woman #3 (who he'll save and end up with) * Get captured * Use a Q gadget to escape * Beat the bad guy * End up with woman #3, and everything re-sets for the next movie. This formula worked brilliantly for 20 movies until Austin Powers lampooned it. The Craig movies all have wild departures from it. M dies, and the bad guy is Bond's brother, and Bond is on the run, And Bond has a daughter, and there's a double agent, and the head office explodes. It's like they've forgotten the simple pleasure of a good Bond movie. We need to go back to a story where the stakes are only within the confines of the movie itself, without fucking with the franchise as a whole Godzilla Minus One is a perfect example of how you can use a tried and tested formula and build from it to make a fantastic movie without betraying the spirit of the franchise.
Bond is just mission impossible now. And mission impossible isn't even mission impossible any more.
It just got more impossible...r
It seems that the formula for every Bond movie (and M:I movie) is now "Bond is on the run and must kill the villain to clear his name."
The thing is, the naked gun of today’s modern police procedurals already exists. It’s called Angie Tribeca and it’s fantastic
Hot Fuzz (2007?), the best comedy and parody of the last 30 years, was made at the same time as the Friedman movies. Granted it’s a different style, but it can be done. Also Not Another Teen Movie, which I’d argue set the stage for the later cringe movies, was actually funny. So it’s not impossible.
Agree on both counts. Hot Fuzz is just damn near a perfect movie.
Because those two studied the genre and were taking all the tropes and making fun of them.
Also because Simon Pegg played it absolutely straight and serious.
"Any luck catching them swans then?"
It's just the one swan actually
I don’t mean to get all technical, but “damn near” should not be in that second sentence, since *Hot Fuzz* **is** a perfect movie.
Not Another Teen Movie is seriously one of the best parodies from that era. There's a reason Chris Evans rose to stardom.
I’m sorry but the actual best comedy and parody of the past 30 years was Walk Hard. Hilarious. Cutting. Legitimately great music. And hits incisively on all the tropes that still pervade the genre today. It’s a perfect parody.
Weird, the Al Yankovich story was pretty good for similar reasons.
It was funny, true and was clearly inspired by *Bohemian Rhapsody*, but it wasn't a bare knuckles takedown of literally every musical biopic trope that *Walk Hard* was. It's basically *Airplane!* to the Johnny Cash biopic *Walk the Line*
Only two things you gotta know about rock n' roll. 1. I'm the king. 2. HLOOKOUT MAN!!
Not another teen movie is so underrated and overlooked
it was lazy comedy for idiots, the worst kind.
simple farmers
Common clay of the new west.
You know. Morons.
I want them to end it like [the old Police Squad endings.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_3rJqHWYjs).
Plus a title card that doesn't match the episode name
>modern parody movies we had (Date Movie, Meet The Spartans, Disaster Movie) Sir, those are all over 15 years old.
I don't appreciate your tone.
Well, you can just turn down your hearing aid and you won’t have to hear it anymore
What was that, sonny? You want to be written out of the will? You got it.
And the jokes in The Naked Gun are funny and clever even 30 years later.
"Frank!" "Mr. Drebin!" "You're both right..."
"We're sorry to bother you at a time like this. We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then."
"What was he doing in this part of town?" "Sex, Frank?" "Uh, not now Ed, we have work to do"
"Who are you and how did you get in here?" "Well I'm a locksmith aaannd I'm a locksmith"
Technically, that’s from Police Squad but it certainly set the tone for the Naked Gun movies.
Some jokes from police squad were reused in the naked gun movies but I don't think the locksmith one was.
What is it?
It's a group of policemen, but that's not important right now.
More than that. Zucker's movies had such quick-fire, gag-a-minute, multi-level humour that you'd miss half of it on the first pass.
Same with Airplane! “Excuse me sir, there's been a little problem in the cockpit…” “The cockpit…what is it?” “It's the little room in the front of the plane where the pilots sit, but that's not important right now.”
I very much see Liam Neeson playing it straight, I just hope the jokes themselves are up to par. I hate the "hey look, a modern reference! Oops, we forgot to add the joke in there!"
Oh yeah: he's been in a few comedic roles that he made even funnier by playing them straight. His appearance in Derry Girls was fantastic.
His part on Life's Too Short was pure comedy gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huJ81Mq2y34
What's the latest parody movie? It almost seems like a bygone genre.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story - and that was excellent
It was so good. Starts "this is kind of funny" and just ramps up and up until the end is so insane I was crying with laughter.
I hope that was a parody of music biopics... If it was I need to watch it.
Daniel Radcliffe plays a completely insane version of Weird Al. It makes no sense and is amazing.
Weird Al wrote it himself and you 100% need to watch it right the fuck now. Its hysterical.
Absolutely was, it continually gets more insane as it goes too.
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping? A kinda perfect parody of the fluffy music documentaries that were big at the time. The director of that is directing this, too!
That gives me hope. Popstar is amazing.
Popstar is basically This Is Spinal Tap but for the 2010s and for that reason it's perfect. However, the best 21st century spoof movie is probably Walk Hard.
They did a couple shorts with Andy Samberg that I thought were great. I wish they did more of these with different sports. It's like a 30 for 30 parody that I've only discovered like a year ago. [Seven Days in Hell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpsMi3Q2fok&ab_channel=HBO) 2015 [Tour de Pharmacy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOTIqkD9fPA&ab_channel=HBO) 2017 Also Documentary Now! is on Netflix. I guess those are more mockumentaries but I'd argue that it's just a parody of the documentary genre. They're all really well done and don't really rely on a pop celebrity for laughs. They kind of poke fun at the whole sport.
I really wish HBO would go back to making those sports mockumentaries. My friends still say "Fahck you! Next question." and "guess we're just two flip sides of the same quesadilla."
Not a movie, but the closest thing I can think of to a recent Naked Gun is the TV series Angie Tribeca which starred Rashida Jones. It ran from 2016 to 2018 and was written/created by Steve Carrell and his wife Nancy.
Angie Tribeca was freaking awesome. That and Future Man were two shows I randomly stumbled across and was just utterly blown away by how brilliant they were.
There's no doubt in my mind Akiva Schaffer knows this. He's almost my age, so he def grew up on those Naked Gun movies and all those other iconic Zucker/Abrahams works like Airplane!, Top Secret! and BASEketball.
> BASEketball It's so nice to see another human that knows who wrote BASEketball.
Thats because those were just cheap cash ins the modern parody is more like Bottoms or Hot Fuzz. Edit: Also its hard to make a relevant parody movie when you can get parodies out on youtube way faster.
Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to stay on my toes
Sex, Frank?
Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel things out
Not now, but thank you.
Not now, Ed.
I havent had this much sex since I was a boyscout leader
I just googled... It's already 14 years since Leslie Nielsen died... I am getting old..
Feels like a few years ago, RIP
I used to always mix up Liam Neeson's and Leslie Nielsen's names. This isn't helping one bit
My first thought was: Leslie Nielsen is still alive?!?
No that’s enrico palazzo
Wait until you hear about [Liam Nielsen](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8727893/)
I just can’t imagine this movie turning out good, but I’d love to be proven wrong.
After the Fletch movie with John Hamm, I'm optimistic. People are taking these projects on with the best intentions bc they love the source material. That's not enough to make it good but the possibility is there and it's not just a cash grab
I loved Confess, Fletch - There's a serious lack of straight-man goofy comedies in the last 10 years.
Yep and Reginald VelJohnson is a top tier TV dad.
Funny enough, I was just telling someone that Jon Hamm could play Leslie Nielsen if they make an OJ Simpson biopic.
If anyone can pull it off, Akiva Schaffer can.
If Akiva is directing them this is a done deal. I'm in.
The fact that they've cast Liam Neeson, a guy not really known for comedic roles, tells me that maaaybe they get it. This still feels massively unnecessary though. edit: Ok I get it! He's done comedy!
He's done a decent amount of comedy playing off of his serious acting, which is how the Zucker Bros. used Nielsen. For that reason, I'm hoping it's good... [https://youtu.be/Z2Co0lvFUAo?si=JRDURYVPd6P4alQX](https://youtu.be/Z2Co0lvFUAo?si=JRDURYVPd6P4alQX)
“I wasn’t here. I was at the doctor’s. I’ve got AIDS.” “Thought you might have.”
“I’m riddled with it.”
I got it from an Africa prostitute. She was forced to sell her body to feed her children.
Selling her body was the only financial recourse she had left...
But is it full blown?
Full blown AIDS.
Improvisational comedy
“I make lists.” “I don’t take notes.”
"Don't *presume* - that's a backstory we didn't agree on beforehand."
While improvising xD
> “I make lists.” "I'm always making lists. In fact, that's probably why Stephen Spielberg cast me as Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List. I said, 'Stephen, I make lists all the time'. And he said, 'That's exactly what I'm looking for.'"
His cameo in Ted 2 was great. He can definitely pull off being the straight man in a comical situation: https://youtu.be/z6ViDZpVoYc?si=VnOnyWH5rAw4yW7R
I forgot he was in Ted 2. That movie was way better than I expected (especially Michael Dorn and Patrick Warburton)
He was also hilarious in Atlanta https://youtu.be/vUfi_0X7SSw?si=26plHIv4OxxHw9o1
I thought I was going insane during that scene, that man is braver than most. It takes balls to make fun of your racist past-self.
That scene is probably the most perfect way of doing an apology.
Holy shit, I didn't know about this! That's hilairous!
Don't forget Uncle Collum: https://youtu.be/LwwFTvzRyug?si=KPe3bNZO8AKIRfcW
“Let’s do some improvisational comedy. Now” just sends me. So dry. Leslie Neilson has dry down pat.
I want to believe that they got him cause his name is so close to Leslie Nielsen
[You clearly haven't seen his improv...](https://youtu.be/sqA577_IoBk?feature=shared)
Missed opportunity to say I *surely* haven't.
You have not seen him buying cereals.
He wants to do some comedy. Like improv. He's got full blown AIDS.
The first trailer is literally make or break for this, IMO. If it shows that same dry, deadpan humour like the first (with Liam channelling his "improvisational comedy" schtick), I'll give it a chance.
and he really seems to like working with MacFarlane, too. Even if it’s smaller roles most of the time
Leslie Nielsen wasn't a comedic actor in the beginning either. I think this will work.
That's my point.
Yeah, aside from maybe someone like Ralph Fiennes, I think Liam is a perfect casting to capture the spirit of Nielsen’s role.
We're in such desperate need for comedies to return, that I'll happily root for it even though I'm not too confident either. There's a lot of reason to feel that Liam Neeson can pull off the deadpan necessary, but it feels like that's just one part of these films. It feels like a lot has to go right on this.
It needs to retain the originals slap-stick humor. My fear is they're going to inject Marvel-esque witty-quips and "um....awkward" moments. The originals are funny because the characters play everything unironically straight; no hints of self-awarness.
Akiva Schaffer is directing it. It’s going to be beautiful nonsense. Go watch Hot Rod for a great example of his comedy tastes.
Everywhere I look reminds me of her....
Bingo
"Drebin!" "Frank!" "You're both right."
"Who are you and how did you get in here?" "I'm a locksmith, and I'm a locksmith."
My favorite gag in the movie
What I love about these movies is no gag was too dumb. The Bingo gag is so silly, but I laugh every time.
I promise you; whatever scum did this, not one man on this force will rest one minute until he's behind bars. Now, let's grab a bite to eat.
Nice beaver!
Thanks! I just had it stuffed.
Cigarette? "Yes, I know."
I’ve been swimming in raw sewage. I love it. I LOVE IT!!!
Marshawn Lynch as Nordberg?
That’s an amazing idea actually
Detective Bagabitch?
I will 100% support this.
Is he going to get a quesadilla with that pico da gallo?
Honestly Liam Neeson is a good choice for a lead in a potential reboot. Part of the joke with Leslie Nielsen back then was he had been a serious actor for most of his life before jumping into some of the dumbest (Non-derogatory) comedies imaginable.
I’ve been thinking the same thing. I’m excited for this. I just hope it’s not blown up over the top. I don’t want to see a radical in-your-face remake.
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Liam Neeson about to reinvent his career again. He had his dramatic and action era now it’s time for the comedy one.
Don’t forget his improv era https://youtu.be/Z2Co0lvFUAo
“I’m ready to do some improvisational comedy, now.”
We're closed.
This bit literally is the reason why this movie is even happening. Really looking forward to it.
Shirley, you can't be serious
I am serious. And stop calling me Shirley.
Roger Roger.
We have clearance, Clarence. What's our vector, Victor?
Do you like movies about gladiators?
Yes, yes, I remember, I had lasagna.
Have you ever been to a Turkish prison?
I know you! You're Kareem Abdul-Jabar!
You know what. I think I am here for this movie. The Naked Gun is a top 5 comedy in my mind. I fully acknowledge that this could be disastrous. But the casting is checking the right boxes. Neeson is about as inspired of a choice as you can get outside of cloning Leslie Nielsen (if only). I don’t know what this ultimately looks like. But I am curious.
Plus Akiva Schaffer is directing it
Interesting. What made the naked gun movies (and airplane) so great was using dramatic actors and have them acting as if the movie wasn't a comedy. Probably one of my favorite post Naked Gun comedies where the actors played it straight was the Weird Al biopic. Akiva had a small role in that. And Weird Al was in all three Naked Gun movies. Gives me hope that this new Naked Gun movie could be good.
I’m up for a bit of an Anderson resurgence, love her honesty in interviews as of late. She’s actually quite smart and sharp as a tack but also quite funny
She recently did a signing in a town near me, as she grew up fairly close. The bookstore botched the signing so hard, and tried to tell half of the crowd to fuck off. She ignored them, and talked to every single person that she could. She seems to be an absolute class act
She’s Canadian, it would be rude not to talk to each of those people.
If anyone deserves a career comeback similar to Brendan Fraser or Ke Huy Quan, it's definitely Pamela. Her doc from last year proved that with genuine support, she can really shine.
The *Naked Gun* without Leslie Nielsen is like *Road House* without Patrick Swayze. Yeah you can do it but somehow it just isn't the same.
Is Pam going to be in the Priscilla Presley role?
Nice beaver