Naked Gun Reboot!

[Too Much Garlic]

I don't wan't to post it here, but if you search "Liam Neeson improvisational comedy" on YouTube you'll find a video with him, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Warwick Davis that might answer your question. If you're offended easily I recommend skipping it.

Cool. I'll check it out.

And people who get easily offended needs to grow thicker skin. Being offended is lame.

This sounds about as funny as Steve Martin's "Pink Panther" remake. (which was not)

That's because Steve Martin is a different kind of comedian. He's more of the "spaz" out there kinda type, whereas Peter Sellers is more reserved, playing it straight. Though... I'm sure Leslie Nielsen could have pulled it off. Heck even Michael Caine could have done it better... 'cause he has the same kind of vibe.

 

[dascoyne]

I think Liam Neeson playing Leslie Nielson's part in Airplane makes more sense, since it's more of a straight-man role.

 

[blewis17]

I think Liam Neeson playing Leslie Nielson's part in Airplane makes more sense, since it's more of a straight-man role.

Surely, you can't be serious!

 

[blewis17]

Leslie Nielsen was a comedic genious. What has Neeson done that makes sense to hire him for this kind of movie?

...well, Liam was in Krull...

 

[TazMan2000]

Nielsen’s deadpan delivery of his lines is what made it funny. He started out as a serious actor and never intended to go into comedy. His first comedic role was MASH in 1973.

Neeson can’t copy Nielsen’s shtick. He has to develop his own style for this role to have any hope of this being successful.

TazMan2000

 

[Captain Dunsel]

Nielsen’s deadpan delivery of his lines is what made it funny. He started out as a serious actor and never intended to go into comedy. His first comedic role was MASH in 1973.

Neeson can’t copy Nielsen’s shtick. He has to develop his own style for this role to have any hope of this being successful.

TazMan2000

Well…Neeson does have a very particular set of skills…

Perhaps comedy is one of them.

 

[jkno]

I'm curious of the level of wokeness and politically correctness present in the reboot...

 

[kickman88]

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PLEASE DISPERSE!

 

[jts1031]

Leslie Nielsen will always be the Swamp Fox!
Disney's The Swamp Fox

 

[blewis17]

This sounds about as funny as Steve Martin's "Pink Panther" remake. (which was not)

Yet, was successful enough $$$ to make a sequel.

 

[jts1031]

Naked Gun Trailer

Okay, I'm on board.

 

[cboath]

Surely, you can't be serious!

I am, and please stop calling me shirley.

 

[Apollo]

Naked Gun Trailer

Okay, I'm on board.

Yeah hopefully that aint all the good gags just in that trailer

 

[Darth Lars]

Thankfully, it is a sequel and not a remake.

 

[jts1031]

Yeah hopefully that aint all the good gags just in that trailer

That they were willing to go there with OJ gives me great hope. I remember watching the original Police Squad! series and I was very leery of this movie when I first heard about it, but this trailer has thawed me.

 

[Apollo]

That they were willing to go there with OJ gives me great hope. I remember watching the original Police Squad! series and I was very leery of this movie when I first heard about it, but this trailer has thawed me.

Ditto! Liam CAN pull it off he is that versatile, just have to have it in the script!

 

[asalaw]

Saw the trailer. Didn't laugh once. I love Liam Neeson, From Excalibur to Taken to whatever he's in, but the trailer did absolutely squat for me.

 

[joberg]

Well…OJ Simpson is still available to reprise his role.

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He's dead as a door knob

 

[Captain Dunsel]

He's dead as a door knob

Well, my post was from 2024, and one month before he passed. Such a missed opportunity not to have brought him back for the remake.

He truly had a killer instinct for comedy.

 

[TazMan2000]

Well, my post was from 2024, and one month before he passed. Such a missed opportunity not to have brought him back for the remake.

He truly had a killer instinct for comedy.

A killer instinct for other things as well.

TazMan2000