Overview

• The Naked Gun reboot grossed $17 million domestically and $11.5 million internationally in its opening weekend, ranking among the decade’s most successful comedy launches and earning high critical scores.
• Liam Neeson trades his stoic action-hero persona for slapstick as Frank Drebin Jr. and told Newsweek he views this revival as a standalone outing with no sequel planned.
• Paramount greenlit the project only after Neeson’s proof-of-concept test sequence broke the fourth wall to mock studio executives, a stunt director Akiva Schaffer credits for winning approval.
• Schaffer also fought to keep polarizing absurdist moments—most notably a living snowman that grows homicidal—threatening to quit when some producers pushed to cut the scene.
• David Zucker, original franchise creator, declined an executive producer credit and said he will not watch the new film, citing his lack of involvement in its development.