In an interview with Fox News Digital, filmmaker David Zucker declared that he would not be watching “The Naked Gun” starring Liam Neeson<\/a>, stating the entire concept of a “Naked Gun” reboot was unoriginal and played out.<\/p>\n “I don’t see any reason to see it,” he said.<\/p>\n “And so, it’s like, well, Jim Abrahams said, if your daughter became a prostitute, would you go watch her work?” Zucker said elsewhere, quoting the late co-director of “Airplane!”, another classic comedy Zucker co-directed.<\/p>\n ORIGINAL ‘NAKED GUN’ DIRECTOR RIPS DEMS, PREDICTS PEOPLE WILL LOOK BACK ON THIS ERA SAYING \u2018AMERICA WAS CRAZY\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Original “Naked Gun” director David Zucker explained to Fox News Digital why he has no intention of seeing the 2025 reboot of his classic comedy film. (Dia Dipasupil\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n The director clarified that, despite his harsh view of 2025\u2019s “Naked Gun” reboot, he bears no ill will towards the film\u2019s cast and crew, like Neeson, or producer Seth MacFarlane<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the creator of “Family Guy.”<\/p>\n “So, Seth MacFarlane came in. He’s a big, successful producer, and he came in with a big star, Liam Neeson. I don’t have anything against Liam Neeson. I think he’s a wonderful actor. He is a fine actor, but generally for spoof, you don’t really need that,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Plus, the way I approach movies is not to do the same thing over again. I didn’t even want to do \u2018Naked Gun 3.\u2019 And so, somebody else directed it. I produced it while I was writing another movie.”<\/p>\n Zucker stressed that he would have done “something new” with another “Naked Gun” rather than repackage his original idea. The director said that prior to Paramount Global greenlighting the Neeson “Naked Gun” he workshopped potential ideas for a “Naked Gun 4.” They included a storyline involving the son of police detective Frank Drebin (played by actor Leslie Nielsen in the original) as a spy.\u00a0<\/p>\n “[What] Pat and Mike and I worked on for a year was to have Drebin\u2019s son, but really his young son, a 30-year-old, and not an LA cop scenario \u2013 but a \u2018Mission Impossible,\u2019 James Bond, \u2018Bourne Identity\u2019 international spoof, international spy thriller. So, I always have wanted to do something new,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n 1980s CHILD STAR TALKS ‘GOONIES’ SEQUEL, MUSIC CAREER, AND WHY AI THREATENS HOLLYWOOD’S \u2018MAGIC\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n David Zucker, the filmmaker behind the original “The Naked Gun,” spoke to Fox News Digital about having no desire to see the 2025 reboot of his classic comedy film.\u00a0 (Michael Tullberg)<\/p>\n Zucker also told Fox News Digital that he doesn\u2019t want to give people the impression he\u2019s calling for a boycott of the reboot, calling out media reports that have made it seem that way.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I read things where it says, \u2018David Zucker is leading a boycott.\u2019 I’m not leading a [boycott] \u2013 all I said was that I have no interest in seeing it.” He made sure to note that the new film\u2019s director, Akiva Schaffer<\/a>, is “a super nice guy” who, along with MacFarlane, asked Zucker in vain for advice on the film.<\/p>\n “But there’s nothing I can do to help them because it’s not what I would have done,” he declared.\u00a0<\/p>\n Elsewhere, he said, “I think the whole thing is wrong, because that’s not how I would do movies. I don’t want to copy someone else’s work.”<\/p>\n Zucker told Fox News Digital that he believes that the entire film industry is suffering from this lack of originality.<\/p>\n “Now it\u2019s all about \u2013 you know, the studio executives, for the most part, are frightened. And so that’s why all you have now is, you know, big stars, superhero movies, big special effects, Tom Cruise movies,” he said, though he clarified he loves Tom Cruise movies.<\/p>\n He added that industry executives are “absolutely playing it safe and also they, you know, they tend to whore after big producers and big stars.”<\/p>\n “But mostly, nobody has any new ideas. They want to copy the old ideas, like \u2018Naked Gun 4\u2019 is really just a copy of an old idea. I mean, it’s a 40-year-old idea to do an older actor as a police detective.”<\/p>\n Although he didn\u2019t helm the latest version of “The Naked Gun,” Zucker has been hard at work on multiple projects, including a totally new original spoof film, “Star of Malta.”<\/p>\n CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE<\/a><\/p>\n The filmmaker described his upcoming film as “completely new.” He said that it\u2019s \u00a0“set in 1949. It’s going to look like one of those film noir movies that were done from 1945 to 1955. And it’s a really great story. And it is a believable story with a young actor cast. And you really believe that they’re real people.”<\/p>\n Providing a hint of what audiences could expect from the film\u2019s comedy, he added, “It’s really what I would say \u2013 it’s spoof 2.0. And it’s really the next thing.”<\/p>\n Zucker noted that it\u2019s going to be an indie release, because that\u2019s just how opposed big studios are to original projects these days.<\/p>\n “If you want to do something original, you have to go with the indie route. And \u2018Star of Malta\u2019 is only a $10 million budget. So, we’ll be able to do that.”<\/p>\n Zucker also mentioned his other new project, “Master Crash: A Crash Course In Spoof Comedy<\/a>.” The project is 15-episode instructional web series that teaches viewers the filmmaker\u2019s 15 rules of writing parody. The first episode of Master Crash debuted last month.<\/p>\n![\"Actors](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/naked-gun-reboot.jpg\")
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