{"id":265845,"date":"2025-11-16T09:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T09:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/265845\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T09:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T09:51:10","slug":"naked-gun-director-unimpressed-with-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/265845\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Naked Gun&#8221; Director Unimpressed With Reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/the-new-the-naked-gun-movie-poster.jpg\" data-caption=\"Paramount Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/the-new-the-naked-gun-movie-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"the-new-the-naked-gun-movie-poster\"\/><\/a>Paramount Pictures<\/p>\n<p>In his time, David Zucker directed four iconic comedy classics \u2013 the legendary \u201cAirplane!\u201d (aka. \u201cFlying High\u201d), \u201cTop Secret!,\u201d \u201cRuthless People,\u201d and :The Naked Gun\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, he has also worked as a writer and\/or producer on those films along with the likes of \u201cBASEketball\u201d and the \u201cScary Movie\u201d franchise.  However, he\u2019s also been pretty vocal about the state of comedy in films today and how things play it too safe.<\/p>\n<p>With the recent \u201cThe Naked Gun\u201d reboot now well past us, Zucker has now offered his take on the film and tells <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womansworld.com\/entertainment\/movies\/what-naked-gun-creator-david-zucker-really-thinks-about-the-reboot-exclusive\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Woman\u2019s World<\/a> that it missed the mark of the classic spoof style of comedy he pioneered with his brother Jerry and Jim Abrahams.<\/p>\n<p>He also indicates the film spent way too much money, and adds that\u2019s something comedies shouldn\u2019t do:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy 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.  People started copying it, like Seth MacFarlane for the new \u2018Naked Gun.\u2019 He totally missed it.<\/p>\n<p>You shouldn\u2019t spend too much money on comedies, and one of our rules is about technical pizzazz. Big budgets and comedy are opposites, and in the new \u2018Naked Gun,\u2019 you could see that they spent a lot of money on scenes full of technical pizzazz while trying to copy our style.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He adds that he thinks it was made exclusively for financial reasons: \u201cEverybody\u2019s in it for the money now, and that feels like the only reason why they wanted to do a new \u2018Naked Gun&#8217;\u201d.  <\/p>\n<p>MacFarlane was a producer on the reboot while Lonely Island co-founder Akiva Schaffer directed the film and penned the script with Dan Gregor and Doug Mand.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly the original \u201cThe Naked Gun\u201d cost $12 million, which works out to $33 million in today\u2019s dollars \u2013 not that far from the $42 million actually spent on the reboot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount Pictures In his time, David Zucker directed four iconic comedy classics \u2013 the legendary \u201cAirplane!\u201d (aka. \u201cFlying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-265845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}