{"id":190665,"date":"2022-10-13T20:42:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T20:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=190665"},"modified":"2022-10-13T21:11:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T21:11:28","slug":"new-naked-gun-movie-set-from-akiva-schaffer-liam-neeson-in-talks-to-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/new-naked-gun-movie-set-from-akiva-schaffer-liam-neeson-in-talks-to-star","title":{"rendered":"New &#8216;Naked Gun&#8217; Movie Set from Akiva Schaffer, Liam Neeson in Talks to Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slapstick is getting a big screen revival: a reboot of the &#8220; Naked Gun &#8221; comedy film franchise is in development at Paramount Pictures, IndieWire has confirmed. Liam Neeson is in talks to star in the film as the son of original protagonist Frank Drebin, a well-meaning but hapless police detective portrayed in the original series by the late Leslie Nielsen. Attached to direct is Akiva Schaffer, best known as a member of the comedy group The Lonely Island and the director of this year&#8217;s &#8220;Chip &#8216;n Dale: Rescue Rangers,&#8221; which won the Emmy for best television film this year. The writers of &#8220;Chip &#8216;n Dale,&#8221; Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, will pen the script, based on an original treatment from Mark Hentemann and Alec Sulkin. Schaffer will executive produce the film, with Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins producing via their production company Fuzzy Door. The original films spun off from the comedy series &#8220;Police Squad!&#8221; which aired for a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slapstick is getting a big screen revival: a reboot of the &#8220;Naked Gun&#8221; comedy film franchise is in development at Paramount Pictures, IndieWire has confirmed. Liam Neeson is in talks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[18,19,21,263],"class_list":["post-190665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-star-wars"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}