Liam Neeson for Paramount’s “Naked Gun” remake. Neeson is in talks to lead the film, Variety confirms. “Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers” director and Lonely Island member Akiva Schaffer will direct and executive produce the movie.
Schaffer wrote the script with “Chip ‘n Dale” scribes Dan Gregor and Doug Mand. MacFarlane and Erica Huggins are producing via their company Fuzzy Door.Earlier this year, Neeson sparked chatter online after telling “People (The TV Show)” that McFarlane and Paramount had been pursuing him to resurrect the “Naked Gun” films. “It’ll either finish my career or bring it in another direction.
I honestly don’t know,” Neeson told “People (The TV Show)”. Paramount’s original “Naked Gun” trilogy starred Leslie Nielsen as Franklin “Frank” Drebin, a good-hearted yet gullible detective at the center of a police procedural parody.
The 1988 movie “The Naked Gun: From the Files of a Police Squad” was a critical and commercial smash, earning positive reviews and $140 million at the box office to match.
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