The Naked Gun director David Zucker thinks that the new reboot of the franchise tried to copy his style.The filmmaker claimed that producer Seth MacFarlane “totally missed it” while trying to ape his style.Zucker also said the new Naked Gun “spent a lot of money on scenes full of technical pizzazz,” but that “big budgets and comedy are opposites.”<\/p>\n
David Zucker wasn’t particularly impressed with this year’s Naked Gun reboot<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n The filmmaker, who co-wrote and directed the first two films in the comedy franchise starring Leslie Nielsen, opined<\/a> that the latest installment in the series missed the mark in an interview with Women’s World.\n<\/p>\n Zucker said that he and his filmmaking partners \u2014 his brother Jerry Zucker and their collaborator Jim Abrahams \u2014 helped establish the norms of American parody movies, and that subsequent filmmakers tried to emulate their approach.\n<\/p>\n “My brother, Jerry, and our partner, Jim Abrahams, started doing spoof comedies 50 years ago, and we originated our own style \u2014 and we did that so well that it looks easy, evidently,” he said. “People started copying it, like Seth MacFarlane for the new Naked Gun. He totally missed it.”\n<\/p>\n MacFarlane helped shepherd this year’s Naked Gun revival, which starred Liam Neeson as the son of Nielsen’s Lt. Frank Drebin, as a producer. The Family Guy creator was also credited<\/a> with “Additional Literary Material,” according to the WGA. The film’s final screenplay was written by Dan Gregor, Doug Mand, and director Akiva Schaffer, whom Zucker did not name in his disparaging remarks.\n<\/p>\n Elsewhere in the interview, Zucker lamented the budgeting of contemporary comedies, including the new Naked Gun. “You shouldn’t spend too much money on comedies, and one of our rules is about technical pizzazz,” he said. “Big budgets and comedy are opposites, and in the new Naked Gun, you could see that they spent a lot of money on scenes full of technical pizzazz while trying to copy our style.”\n<\/p>\n