Naked Gun remake

macslash

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/dec/13/naked-gun-ed-helms-reboot

do not want this to happen.

TheMilkyPirate

Your not the only one, A comedy classic that shouldn't be touched.

ebbsy

What a crazy idea, but in a bad way. Only somebody like Leslie could have pulled off that kind of humour.

Some things are best left alone.

Soft Falling Rain

One of those "in name only" situations. It's hard to separate Nielson from what Naked Gun was (I mean at least with the likes of The Terminator and Arnie, there's an entire universe to explore).

Seriously. Ed Helms? The guy cannot hold a torch to Nielson.

Balaclava1991

The Naked Gun and its sequels are comedy classics on par with the best of Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Harold Lloyd and the Three Stooges.

The movies aren't even the best incarnations of Frank Drebin.

The original Police Squad! is even funnier than the movies were.

krudler

Hollywood no, stop, just stop.

The funniest thing about the Naked Gun was Nielsen's straight laced delivery, the more he wasn't trying to be funny the funnier it was.

ArPharazon

And people tend to say 33 1/3 is a bad sequel. Its not, its better than most comedies by a country mile!

Professey Chin

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

....NO NO NO NO!

IvaBigWun

^^^^

Balaclava1991

The spoof series Police Squad! was inspired by M Squad starring Lee Marvin as Frank Ballinger.

willmunny1990

Madness, bound to be a flop IMO.

No actor could pull this off the way Nielsen did, slapstick is very hard to get right without looking stupid, Nielsen made this film and as Krudler said the more Nielson tried not to be funny, the funnier he actually was which made it brilliant.

This will get murdered.

Phoenix Park

Quentin Hapsburg: We'll be at the reception. Make sure nothing happens to him while I'm gone. Then, {turns to Frank}, I want the pleasure of killing you myself!


Frank Drebin: The pleasure is all mine.

Quentin Hapsburg:

krudler

"Yeah, you know, a white guy. A moustache. About six-foot-three."
"Awfully big moustache."

OwaynOTT

... but as soon as he regains consciousness, we'll see if he can still play the guitar.

pixelburp

Frank: It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.
Jane: Goodyear?
Frank: No, the worst.

This is really stupid news, if completely unsurprising. Like everyone else, I don't think there's any chance this can succeed; aside from the obvious fact that nobody could fill the shoes left by the late, great Leslie Nielsen, as far as I can see there are no genuinely great farce-comedy script writers out there anyway. Farce has become ... well, a farce; the domain of the likes of Jason Friedberg or Aaron Seltzer who have dragged a once great sub-genre into the dirt. A naked gun remake can only fail.

JP Liz V1

Just no please

Did Hollywood not see the failure that was Steve Martin as Clouseau :rolleyes:

Roar

Like a midget at a urinal, I would have to stay on my toes...

Mickeroo

This makes no sense. It's like trying to re-make a marx brothers film or a monty python movie.

humanji

Mickeroo wrote: »

This makes no sense. It's like trying to re-make a marx brothers film or a monty python movie.

Quiet you idiot! You'll give them ideas!

Balaclava1991

How can they hope to equal genius like this?

ScummyMan

Surely you can't be serious!

IvaBigWun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhyCL-ELRxg

PerrinV2

Roar wrote: »

Like a midget at a urinal, I would have to stay on my toes...

Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel things out..

Den_M

Man.UnitedLad wrote: »

Surely you can't be serious!

Unfortunately they're deadly serious.







And don't call me Shirley.

Roar

"Cigarette?"

"Yes, I know"

Balaclava1991

Quentin Hapsburg: You do speak French, don't you?
Lt. Frank Drebin: Unfortunately no, but I do kiss that way.

pixelburp

Frank Drebin: Now, Jane, what can you tell us about the man you saw last night?
Jane: He's Caucasian.
Ed: Caucasian?
Jane: Yeah, you know, a white guy. A moustache. About six-foot-three.
Frank Drebin: Awfully big moustache.

MisterAnarchy

Writers Thomas Lennon and R Ben Garant - who also wrote the upcoming Baywatch for Paramount - will inherit screenplay duties from the Zucker brothers.

Are there any decent comedy writers employed in Hollywood these days ?
How do these people get work ,their past work is garbage with such duds as Taxi,Herbie Fully Loaded,The Pacifier,Lets Go to Prison,

Professey Chin

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Are there any decent comedy writers employed in Hollywood these days ?

No


Thats about it (Im genuinely unable to think of a comedy over the the last few years thats even a fraction on naked gun, airplane etc)

Duggy747

Only good thing to come out of this baffling news is that it's reminded me that it's due time to slap on some Leslie Nielsen comedy again.

Nielson was perfect for straight-faced comedy, as was Lloyd Bridges. For the past good few years, comedy has had it's characters acting like an exaggerated man-child where every emotion is turned up to 11 so you get the joke.

The old-school spoofs jokes were funnier the more subtle they were, the characters were oblivious to just how nutty the world they inhabited was.

MisterAnarchy

The Dark Lord Cthulhu wrote: »

No


Thats about it (Im genuinely unable to think of a comedy over the the last few years thats even a fraction on naked gun, airplane etc)

Quite true.
The baffling thing is that certain writers keep getting work when their past produce is rubbish.

Its rumored that Skip Woods ,the writer of Hitman,The A-Team,Die Hard 5 isnt even a real person it's a pen name a studio puts on the credits when a few execs quickly throw together a "script" for shooting.
I'd well believe it.

MisterAnarchy

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Its rumored that Skip Woods ,the writer of Hitman,The A-Team,Die Hard 5 isnt even a real person it's a pen name a studio puts on the credits when a few execs quickly throw together a "script" for shooting.
I'd well believe it.

I think the fact that there's plenty of pictures of him and that he also directed a film years back kinda make it hard to believe that he's not a real person. Granted most of his work since Thursday has been woeful but there's no denying that Thursday is just a great piece of trashy late 90s cinema.

MisterAnarchy

Deleted User wrote: »

I think the fact that there's plenty of pictures of him and that he also directed a film years back kinda make it hard to believe that he's not a real person. Granted most of his work since Thursday has been woeful but there's no denying that Thursday is just a great piece of trashy late 90s cinema.

There seem to be hardly any pictures of him around and alot of the ones supposedly of him are in fact Gavin Hood.

He also hasnt directed a film since Thursday ,which is indeed a good watch.

MisterAnarchy

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

There seem to be hardly any pictures of him around and alot of the ones supposedly of him are in fact Gavin Hood.

He also hasnt directed a film since Thursday ,which is indeed a good watch.

I've seen a few pictures of him and he resembles the love child of Hood and Mickey Rourke by way of Daniel Baldwin.

kaimera

Leslie is turning in his grave.

Sad panda if this is remade. Future generations will never know police squad & the naked gun

DrGuy

A travesty. This is horrifying news.

razorblunt

This mans got a a picture of your wife in his wallet.


They've got it all wrong, a comedy actor will not do his justice, no actor will, but they're missing the fact the actor needs to be as straight faced as possible to make it work.
You'd almost need someone like Josh Brolin doing it.

pixelburp

kaimera wrote: »

Leslie is turning in his grave.

Sad panda if this is remade. Future generations will never know police squad & the naked gun

"never know?" It's not like the studio are going to go all Nuremberg on the Naked Gun and burn all copies of the previous films Heck the one small positive in this news is that it's likely to cause a bounce in DVD sales of the original films...

Burt Macklin

Whatever scum did this, not one man on boards.ie will rest one minute until this reboot is cancelled. Now let's grab a bite to eat.

Little Italy

Why can't Hollywood just leave well enough alone? It's bad enough they keep doing these horror remakes (most of which I've never seen, nor never will) It is a lack of creativity and a sick willingness to make a quick buck.

The Night of the Living Dead remake is an exception but that was in 89/90 or something.

Reekwind

For me it's not so much the writing (which was great) but the sheer quality of the visual gags. Almost every scene is packed with little slapstick gems - from the man falling off the pier to, well, to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOURLAgQT_8

Hollywood seems to have lost the art of not just the great pun* but this sort of physical comedy. Instead it's just scat and vomit jokes all day long

*(Ludwig: Drebin!
Jane: Frank!
Drebin: You're both right)

DrumSteve

Honestly speaking, while the naked gun is my favourite comedy of all time (the bit where his own car almost runs him over and he asks did anyone see the driver still cracks me up) I just dont think a lot of the audience these days would get it. Those films were pretty smart in how they delivered jokes, they worked because of how serious Nielsen was. You dont need a comedian to play this role, if anything, a comedy actor should be the last person you'd have in there.

If anything, they are remaking it to today's (unfortunate) tastes.

Everywhere I'd go, I'd see something that reminded me of her.

Liam McPoyle

The movie going public by and large pay to see remakes/reboots/imaginings by the truckload and have done so for quite a while so it cant come as any surprise. How many of you that are complaining about this have paid to see the Texas Chainsaw, Halloween, Total Recall or Friday the 13th (for example) remakes? Quite a few Id wager.

Ive been pulling my hair out for years over the number of horror movie remakes but nowadays I just ignore them. When I see movie classics like TNG getting a remake it just solidifies why I have absolutely no qualms about illegally downloading studio movies and I will continue to do so.

Hande hoche!

Fairly poor idea. The Naked Gun trilogy was sublime. The last very decent parody I can think of was Walk Hard.

Balaclava1991

Looking back I think George W. Bush deliberately copied Frank Drebin.

krudler

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Fairly poor idea. The Naked Gun trilogy was sublime. The last very decent parody I can think of was Walk Hard.

Such an underrated movie, hardly anyone has seen it and it's much funnier than most of the other comedies in the same vein of recent years. "the wrong kid died!"

Earthhorse

Although Nielsen is one of a kind I can actually picture Ed Helms in a reboot. But without the Zucker brothers writing it I can't see it working.

pixelburp

Earthhorse wrote: »

Although Nielsen is one of a kind I can actually picture Ed Helms in a reboot. But without the Zucker brothers writing it I can't see it working.

In many ways that's probably a blessing in disguise; David Zucker was behind the last 3 Scary Movies so if there's any chance of this reboot working, the Zuckers should be kept away from it.

As for Helms, the deadpan, dramatic actor in the lead was what made Police Squad / Naked Gun work so well; Nielsen had comic timing sure, but he still played Drebin as a dead-straight role. I'm not sure casting an inherently comedic actor is going in the right direction - someone like Josh Brolin would have seemed like a smarter move; a dramatic actor through and through, able to deadpan his lines while everyone else reacted to them.

FouxDaFaFa

This is terrible.

It's unecessary and lazy and it's a sign of how Hollywood is so terrified to take a financial risk on new and innovative comedy that they literally rinse and repeat the tested formulae, even when it comes to sullying an already-perfect franchise.

I've nothing against Ed Helms but FCUK NO.

TomCleverly

www.nooooooooooooooo.com