NEW YORK ā Lt. Frank Drebin is back on the case.
Paramount Pictures is moving ahead with a long-gestating remake of āNaked Gun,ā the studio announced Wednesday. Liam Neeson will star as the bumbling police detective Debin in the role made famous by Leslie Nielsen.
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Akiva Schaffer ("Hot Rod," āPop Star: Never Stop Stoppingā) will direct the film, set for release in July 2025. The script is by Dan Gregor, Doug Man and Schaffer, who collaborated on 2022's āChip 'N Dale: Rescue Rangers.ā
The āNaked Gunā films, derived from the TV series āPolice Squad!", were high-water marks for slapstick comedy. They ran over six years: āThe Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squadā (1988), āThe Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fearā (1991) and āNaked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insultā (1994).
Nielsen died in 2010 at the age of 84. Before playing Lt. Drebin, Nielsen had been largely a dramatic actor.
āItās been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type,ā Nielsen once said, āand Iām finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.ā