Fans of The Naked Gun are about to have a good year with the release of the full trailer for the new movie.
Akiva Schaffer helms the reboot feature that Paramount releases in theaters Aug. 1. Liam Neeson stars as Lt. Frank Drebin Jr., the son of Police Squad legend Frank Drebin, played in the franchise’s previous projects by the late Leslie Nielsen. Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Kevin Durand, Danny Huston, Liza Koshy, Cody Runnels and CCH Pounder round out the cast.
The new Naked Gun sees Neeson leading Police Squad in their latest effort to save the world. A previously released teaser trailer references Nordberg, the role played in the original movies by O.J. Simpson.
Preview footage screened at CinemaCon included sexually suggestive scenes between Neeson as Drebin and Anderson’s character Beth. At a different point in the CinemaCon footage, the detective told Busta Rhymes’ character, “It says you’ve served 20 years for man’s laughter. Must have been quite the joke.”
Dan Gregor and Doug Mand penned the new movie’s script with Schaffer. The two screenwriters previously wrote the director’s Emmy-winning Disney+ feature Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers. Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins serve as producers for the new Naked Gun.
The forthcoming comedy is based on the Naked Gun films and the television series Police Squad! from Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker. The franchise first hit the big screen with 1988’s The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, which co-stars George Kennedy and Priscilla Presley and spawned two sequels.
