Rebooting the lead role of “The Naked Gun” Liam Neeson It created a lot of excitement online, but one of the directors of the original film is not a fan.
“It’s painful, but it’s just not something I did,” David Zucker told Fox News Digital.
“But you know, I don’t want to bash what they’re doing, but I want to do it. But that’s not what I did, it’s not our style. It’s odd to see that.”
Zucker directed the original 1988 comedy, “The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!” It stars Leslie Nielsen and co-written by his brothers Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Pat Propheto.
The director of the original “Naked Gun” said he’s casting Liam Neeson in the remake/sequel. (Kate Green/Getty Images)
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Zucker Brothers and Abrahams, known for the acronym for Zaz, is also the mastermind of comedy. Behind the “Airplane!” “Top Secret!” “Police Squad” TV series.
The director admitted he didn’t want to see a “Naked Gun” reboot with Neeson and compared it to when “Airplane II” came out, but it didn’t involve Zaz.
“Jim Abraham said he was asked when he was doing Q and A, “Why have you never seen ‘Airplane II’?” And Jim said, “If your daughter becomes a prostitute, will you go and see her work?”
“The ‘naked gun’ and ‘airplane’, these are our babies. And we imagined it and spent a lot of time doing it. And when I was removed from the remake, it was a bit of a surprise to me. ”
David Zucker, right, brothers Jerry Zucker and left, Jim Abraham were comedy legends behind “Airplane!” And then there’s a “naked gun.” (Corvis via Stefan Card Dinar/Getty Images)
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Zucker continued, “I thought I’d do it. We wrote the script, and all of a sudden Seth Macfarlane came along with Liam Neeson, and it was Big Studio, Big Agency, Big Producer.”
“Family Guy” creator MacFarlane is the producer of the reboot, directed by Akiba Shaffer, a Lonely Island alumnus starring Neeson, Pamela Anderson and Paul Walterhauser.
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If he was involved, Zucker says he wouldn’t cast Neeson.
“Cannot be exchanged Leslie Nielsen. That’s what it is,” he said.
Zucker said, “You can’t replace Leslie Nielsen with a naked gun.” (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
“They’re very sincere and they want to do something that they thought they were going to do, and they want to do ‘naked guns’,” Zucker said. And these are not bad people, they adore, they love “naked guns”, “top secrets”! ,”plane!” Seth MacFarlane I’ve been offering homage to “Family Guy” and it’s a great thing. ”
“He called me and for ten minutes he told me how much he loved my films. But when I first heard he was going to do it, I helped him by wearing a hat in my hand. He didn’t want to see me.
Zucker says he spoke with MacFarlane about the film but was removed from the scripting process. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
According to Zucker, he and co-author of the original “Naked Fun” wrote “The Naked Gun 4 version.”
“We learned that there are rules. We wrote a book called ‘Surely You Can’t Be Be Theering’. It’s a true story of “Airplane!” “And we put in 15 rules for comedy. But what we’re doing is very specific and just being a fan doesn’t mean you can do it. ”
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“Remember the ads for kids in the 60s? They say, ‘Don’t kids try this at home?” That’s what I say, it’s too late, this is coming out. ”
The reboot trailer introduces Neeson as Frank Drevin Jr., the son of the original franchise’s Nielsen character, making the film both a reboot and a sequel.
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Zucker says that he and the professor’s script, along with Mike McManus, would have taken a “fresh approach” and that he and the professor “were not even a cop film.”
“It was a ‘naked gun’, but it’s a spoofing “Mission Impossible” “Bone’s Identity” and Bond, and Bond with the son of a young man Drevin. It must have been Andy Samberg. We had a fresh approach with the young cast. Don’t try to swap Leslie Nielsen. No matter how good he is, it’s just an old man. ”
In the remake of “The Naked Gun,” Neeson plays Frank Drevin Jr., the son of the Nielsen character in the original franchise. (Photos of Paramount)
Representatives from Neeson and Macfarlane did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
The peculiarity of Zucker and his team in comedy styling led to the discovery of young people Val Kilmermade her feature film debut as Nick Rivers, a pop star like Elvis from “Top Secret!”
“Jerry, Jim and I were casting ‘Top Secret!’ And this was mid-1983 and we couldn’t find the Nick Rivers we wanted,” he recalled. “So, finally, casting director Susie Jacobson has this actor in this play called “Slab Boys” in New York, so we jumped on the plane and watched the play from Broadway along with Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon and Val Kilmer.
He added, “I mean, I don’t remember much about the play, but I thought he thought it was. [was a] A very charismatic and handsome man. I’m going on a date with him, but you know, that’s a different story. ”
Val Kilmer made his film debut with Thez’s parody, Top Secret! (Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection)
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Zaz had an audition for Kilmer and they thought he was great, and the young actor made the version of Elvis’ song “Turn Me Rowe,” which sold them.
“The way he did it was interesting,” Zucker said. “He just blew us away.”
Zucker remembers that Kilmer was “a little uncomfortable” in the first few weeks of filming, and later realizes that part of the problem came down to the character.
“Val is this Juilliard-trained actor and we were doing the stupidest movies. He had to star in a cow with boots. It was crazy,” he said.
Zucker revealed that Kilmer was “a little offensive” with the incredibly stupid character he played in “Top Secret!” But there was no malice between them. (Paramount photo courtesy of the Everett Collection)
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Kilmers My girlfriend at the time, Cher, I also wasn’t very confident about the film.
“Shelle comes out of the set and she’s such a lovely woman, but she keeps saying this is a monumentally stupid movie. It flops at the box office, meaning you don’t mind that she was right.
Zucker said Cher is critical of “Top Secret!” But “She was right.” (Barry King/Wire Image)
The film wasn’t a big box office gross, but it became a beloved cult classic and there was no bad blood between Kilmer and the team.
“I don’t go to Hollywood parties, but I come across him every year or two, and we always say hello.
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He added that he heard about Kilmer saying, “Top Secret!” during the Q&A session. In their favorite film, Kilmer said, “Not my favorite.”
Although “Top Secret!” was not the first film in Thez, Zucker feels that the team has learned some lessons from the experience.
He recalls Abrahams, who several years later thought Kilmer’s discomfort with the character was “our fault.”
“We were wrong Lessons from “Airplane!” This is because you were filling the 80-minute movie with jokes, so you got it,” Zucker explained.
Zucker said he has learned many important lessons in filmmaking over the years, including creating his own comedy rules. (TCM’s Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images)
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“What we learned, and this is one of the things you learn. I mean, I’m old enough to learn something – you need to create a character. You have to have a character with an arc in your main lead, so he has to have a problem, he has to learn something in Act 2 and he has to solve it in Act 3,” the 77-year-old said.
He explained it in “Airplane!” There was Reid’s plot and character arc, Robert Hayes, but it was parodyed from the existing plot of the film Zero Hour, and there were no identical templates and rules to follow “Top Secret!”.
“Every film was a great experience, but most of the time we learned lessons from doing the wrong thing and were able to put them in rules where people who “naked guns” don’t know the rules. But I think they are good people anyway. ”
