{"id":368239,"date":"2026-01-13T23:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368239\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T23:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:25:11","slug":"dont-expect-a-naked-gun-reboot-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368239\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Expect A &#8220;Naked Gun&#8221; Reboot Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/neeson-doesnt-anticipate-the-naked-gun-2.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\/2026\/01\/neeson-doesnt-anticipate-the-naked-gun-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"neeson-doesnt-anticipate-the-naked-gun-2\"\/><\/a>Paramount Pictures<\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Akiva Schaffer has sadly revealed that fans of his Liam Neeson-led reboot of \u201cThe Naked Gun\u201d last year won\u2019t be getting a sequel.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbr.com\/naked-gun-liam-neeson-director-franchise-fate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBR<\/a> at the Critics Choice Awards, Schaffer was asked about plans for a possible sequel to the successful film.<\/p>\n<p>He sadly confirmed that it\u2019s not happening: \u201cWe are not planning another. I don\u2019t know if you heard about Paramount kind of changed owners. It was maybe something. It was about seven days after the movie came out, and so, you know, we\u2019re waiting to hear from see if they would want it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schaffer did add that if they ever did move forward on such a project, there were plenty of ideas already for it.  He says co-writers Dan Gregor and Doug Mand \u201chave a list of gags\u201d while producer Erica Huggins adding: \u201cWe have a big idea that we had talked about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Kevin Durand and Danny Huston co-starred in the film, which revolved around the son of Lt. Frank Drebin as he tries to prevent the closure of Police Squad.<\/p>\n<p>Reviews were quite good overall, with praise for Neeson\u2019s performance, while the film grossed over $100 million worldwide from its $42 million budget.  It also won best comedy film at the aforementioned Critics Choice Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/moench-to-showrun-mr-and-mrs-smith-s2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moench To Showrun \u201cMr. and Mrs. Smith\u201d S2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/quick-news-bond-beauty-chazelle-hunger\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quick News: Bond, Beauty, Chazelle, Hunger<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount Pictures Filmmaker Akiva Schaffer has sadly revealed that fans of his Liam Neeson-led reboot of \u201cThe Naked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-368239","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\/368239","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=368239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}