'Naked Gun' reboot set for 2025, with Liam Neeson to star

FILE - Actor Liam Neeson appears at the premiere of the film "Hunt For The Wilderpeople" in London. Paramount Pictures is moving ahead with a long-gestating remake of Naked Gun, the studio announced Wednesday. Liam Neeson will star as the bumbling police detective Debin in the role made famous by Leslie Nielsen. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP, file) (Vianney Le Caer, Invision)

NEW YORK ā€“ Lt. Frank Drebin is back on the case.

Paramount Pictures is moving ahead with a long-gestating remake of ā€œNaked 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," ā€œPop 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 ā€œChip 'N Dale: Rescue Rangers.ā€

The ā€œNaked Gunā€ films, derived from the TV series ā€œPolice Squad!", were high-water marks for slapstick comedy. They ran over six years: ā€œThe Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squadā€ (1988), ā€œThe Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fearā€ (1991) and ā€œNaked 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.

ā€œItā€™s been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type,ā€ Nielsen once said, ā€œand Iā€™m finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.ā€


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