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Naked Gun Reboot Tops $42M as Creators Declare It a One-Off

It has earned global grosses exceeding $42 million with critics praising its balance of slapstick homage and modern parody

Liam Neeson in The Naked Gun. (Photo via Frank Masi/Paramount Pictures)
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Overview

  • Liam Neeson has said the film is probably a one-off project with no sequel planned
  • Director Akiva Schaffer and his co-writers discarded thousands of jokes to forge a cohesive story alongside broad slapstick humor
  • Critics have awarded the reboot near-90% on Rotten Tomatoes, the highest score in the franchise’s history
  • The ensemble cast includes Pamela Anderson, Kevin Durand and Paul Walter Hauser, with cameo turns by Michael Bisping and Cody Rhodes
  • The plot skewers contemporary action tropes through a tech billionaire villain bent on global mayhem with a “P.L.O.T. Device”