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Fans Naked gun The franchisee may need to brew some coffee and be patient before finding out if the police squad will soon be dealing with another case.
Director Akiva Schaffer’s feature reboot The bare gun Released in theaters last summer from Paramount Pictures, it stars Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, and Paul Walter Hauser. It was the fourth entry in the film series that began with Leslie Nielsen as Detective Frank Drebin in director David Zucker’s 1988 original film after the character originated on the ABC network. Police squad!
During a conversation with Hollywood Reporter To promote the launch of the second season of the Peacock series on Thursday TedSeth MacFarlane – which he produced last year The bare gun With his Fuzzy Door banner – he has zeroed in on the opportunities for a potential sequel where Neeson will reprise his role as Frank Drebin Jr.
“I know everyone is going to love it, including Liam,” MacFarlane says. “We haven’t heard anything yet. I think it’s all up to Paramount.”
Reboot The bare gun It was released in theaters last August and collected $102 million at the global box office. Prior to its release, the film was closely watched as a potential referendum on whether audiences would support comedies—and satirical films in particular—since these types of projects were not as prevalent in theaters as they had been decades earlier.
In conversation with THR In time for the film’s 2025 release, screenwriters Dan Gregor and Doug Mand said they began jotting down notes with ideas for a potential follow-up. “Dan and I have notebooks and we’ve already started jotting ideas down,” Mand said. “Akiva is the same way, more or less.”
Producer Erica Huggins said that after the film’s release THR That there had been talks among the project team about a potential sequel: “Akiva, Dan and Doug, our writers – we’re all talking about it.”
When asked earlier this year about the possibilities of a sequel, Schiffer said CBRHe added, “We are not planning another,” but noted that some ideas had previously been discussed. The director also noted that Skydance Media’s acquisition of Paramount Global was finalized days after the film’s release The bare gun This will likely complicate the path for the sequel: “[The merger] That was about seven days after the movie came out, so we’re waiting to see if they want it.
In his review of last year The bare gun to THRSenior film critic David Rooney wrote: “There are enough laugh-out-loud moments to keep nostalgic fans of the previous films happy and perhaps make some new converts.”
