Original Naked Gun Director Condemns Liam Neeson’s Reboot

David Zucker, director of the primary two Bare Gun movies, was unimpressed with Akiva Schaefer’s legendary sequel starring Liam Neeson. In his opinion, all those that participated within the movie have been searching for was cash.

In an interview with Girl’s World, Zucker slammed the newest addition to the collection. The director harshly criticized him for plagiarizing the unique movie and on the similar time in some way nonetheless lacking the purpose.

Zucker claimed that he and his brothers Jerry and Jim Abrahams have been chargeable for creating the kind of “parody comedy” that movies similar to The Bare Gun fall into. Since then, he believed that individuals within the leisure business attempt to “copy” them as a result of they’re so good that it appears “straightforward” to outsiders.

My brother Jerry and our associate Jim Abrahams began doing parody comedy 50 years in the past and we developed our personal model. And clearly the better it appears, the higher we did it. Folks began copying it, like Seth MacFarlane within the new “Bare Gun.” He had utterly missed it.

Zucker additionally had some selection phrases about how his movie solely value $14.5 million to make, in comparison with the $42 million funds for his new movie, The Bare Gun. He mentioned comedy requires a excessive price ticket. Nonetheless, this comparability could also be a bit unfair contemplating the truth that Zucker’s movie was made in 1988, whereas the brand new sequel was filmed in 2025. As most individuals know, the value of nearly all the pieces has skyrocketed over the previous 37 years. Adjusting for inflation, Mr. Zucker’s spending would equate to about $38 million in 2025. So that is reportedly fairly near the price of a contemporary bare gun, making his remark appear a bit hypocritical.

You should not spend an excessive amount of cash on comedy. Considered one of our guidelines considerations technical subjects. Massive budgets and comedy are opposites, and the brand new Bare Gun finds us spending some huge cash on scenes stuffed with technical flashiness whereas making an attempt to repeat our model.

The director added that he believes the brand new bare gun is basically only a cash seize. He strongly implied that everybody was in it only for the cash.

Now everybody’s into it for the cash, and it appears like that is the one cause they wished to do a brand new “Bare Gun.”

The Bare Gun (2025) is accessible to stream on Paramount+.