{"id":420308,"date":"2026-02-11T18:01:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420308\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T18:01:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:01:06","slug":"david-zucker-is-not-a-fan-of-what-paramount-did-with-naked-gun-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420308\/","title":{"rendered":"David Zucker is not a fan of what Paramount did with Naked Gun reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Zucker directed the first two Naked Gun movies and contributed to the script for the third. He says he, Pat Proft and Mike McManus had an idea for a fourth movie\u2014which eventually manifested as The Naked Gun<\/a> last summer\u2014but it was not destined to move forward. \u201cWe set our Naked Gun 4 in the James Bond, Bourne Identity, Mission: Impossible world, so it wasn\u2019t the same thing. It wasn\u2019t copying. It would have been with a young comic actor like Andy Samberg,\u201d Zucker says in a new interview with The Independent<\/a>. However, he says that Paramount, which was also the studio behind the three original films, instead decided to \u201cmerely try to, with blinders on, copy a 30-40 year old idea\u2026 and replacing Leslie Nielsen, what a moronic thing to do!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

That is not the extent of the issues Zucker has with the 2025 film, which was produced by Seth McFarlane and Erica Huggins. \u201cParamount ruined the franchise, and it\u2019s too bad, but I repurposed the script as \u2018Counter Intelijence\u2019, spelled with one l and a j. It\u2019s just such a great script. Maybe someday it\u2019ll be done,\u201d says Zucker. However, it sounds like his issues are more with the corporate side of things than with the talent who participated in the reboot. \u201cSeth called me, and the director [Akiva Schaffer] is a very nice guy. He came to my house twice. They are just so respectful and so complimentary. They idolise these movies. So how can you be angry or mad at somebody who keeps telling you what a genius you are? But it\u2019s frustrating in the business\u2026 all I care about is doing something original. I don\u2019t want to do what I did before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then again, The Independent reports that he added \u201cwith a laugh,\u201d \u201cThey just so fucked it up\u2026 We would have truly rebooted the franchise with young actors, and Seth MacFarlane ruined it. So what can I do?\u201d That all being said, Zucker hasn\u2019t actually seen the new film, rationalizing, \u201cIf your daughter became a prostitute, would you go watch her work?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Zucker directed the first two Naked Gun movies and contributed to the script for the third. He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-420308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420308","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=420308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}