“Logo Text the Naked Gun Writers Are Proud to Have Stuffed Their Reboot with References to the Classic Movies. Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, Who Co-Wrote Paramount’s Comedy Reboot with Director Akiva Schaffer, Sat Down with The Hollywood Reporter After The Film’s Solid. Liam neeson and pamela anderson star”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The Naked Gun Writers Are Proud to have Stuffed their reboot with references to the Classic Movies.
Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, Who Co-Wrote Paramount’s Comedy Reboot with Director Akiva Schaffer, Sat Down with The Hollywood Reporter After the Film’s Solid Opening Weekend at the Box Office. Liam Neeson and Pamela anderson Star in the Franchise’s Fourth Movie that Revives the Spoof Series that Featured Leslie Nielsen Playing Detective Frank Drebin and Kicked Off WitH Direk.
Durying the Interview, Gregor and Mand Discusses Acknowledge OJ Simpson Previously Starring in the Franchise As Officer Nordberg; Potential Ideas for Another Sequel; and How they lands on the movie’s memorable camera.
The Film’s Villain Definitely Feels Elon Musk-Coded.
Dan Gregor Musk-y?
WERE THERE CONCERNS ABOUT IGNITING The WROTH OF Someone Like Musk?
Gregor HONESTLY, The FUNNIEST THING IS, NO. Our Hope is that cane is an amalgamation of all of the terrible Billionaires in the World. We Were Really Set on Wanting This Movie to Have A Certain Amount of Comedy Timelessness, and So Not Getting Pigeonholed in Any One Special Special Was Really Important For US. It’s One of the Miacles of the Original Movie, Too, That It Dated Better Than Just About Any Comedy Ever.
There’s that R-Word Conversation, WHICH Feels of the Moment, But It Has Probably Been Going on Decades, Too.
Gregor I MEAN, The Black Eyed Peas Wrote that Song in 2003, and that Song is not available to Download Anymore. IT’s Just, “Let’s Get It Started.” And so-black eyes were having this conversing as they were releasing and un-releasing their own album[[The end]in 2009. TheSe are pretty long-term Conversations and Comedy.
What was the discussion like about how to address oj?
Doug Mand The OJ Thing Was One of the First Questions Kiva, Dan and Myself Got WHEN PEOPLE HEARD WEAR Naked gun: “What are you going to do about nordberg and oj?” IT WAS ON FIRST JOKE AREAS WE WORKED ON IN THE MOVIE, AND WE KNEW PRETTY QUICKLY THAT WANTED IT TO BE A FAST REFERENCE [and] that we didn’t want to live in the idea of oj too long. Pretty Quickly, We Came Into The Idea of A Hall of Fathers Because It Also Was Attached to Another Question We Got, WHICH WAS LIKE, “IS LIMIM PLAYING FRANK DREBIN?” We have a lot of alts of different oj jokes in the first couple of weeks, but then settled Into this Area.
There is a Lot of Talk About Liam and Pamela’s Real-Life Chemistry. DID YOU SENSE THAT SPARKS WERE FLYING?
Mand I am getting more texts about what’s going on with them than things. All i can Say is what i know – which is, on set from the beginning, the two of them had immediate chemistry. They Liked Each Other. You Only Dream that your Two Co-Stars are Connecting on that Level. I am pushling for the two of them in a very Big Way.
Obviously, An Apperance from Weird Al In this Franchise Feels de Rigueur. What Went Into The Cameos from Familiar Faces, Including Priscilla Presley?
Gregor Weird Al, from the Jump-There’s A Couple Things to Use Feel Like The Fan-Service Demands That We Have To Give, In Some Way or Another. I The Same Thing with Having Credit-Section Jokes and Just Some Moment to Hear That Old Wonderful Theme Song and See The Police Siren Light. We did wite at least a Half Dozen Different Places for HIM WITHIN The MOVIE. There Was One Point Where He Was Going to Be The Singer at Cane’s Gala.
Mand Priscilla, We Talked About Just Because She’s An Icon, and She’s Still with US. We didn’t want to form it in. Luckily, she was game to do it, and that was Really Exciting for Us.
Have you been Discussing Ideas for Another Movie?
Gregor Oh, immediatally we were already having fun doing that on set. This movie is a tight 85 minutes, But the Truth is, every line had a dozen alts.
Mand Dan and I have notebooks already that we’re already starting to just jot down ideas on. Akiva is the same way, to a degree.
You previoously worked on the movie Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangters. There Was a viral Social Media Post Last Week Criticizing that the Film Seemed to Villainize the Real-Life Peter Pan Actor. Do comments like that surprise you?
Gregor WHEN YOU’RE YOU’S TOUCHING Someone’s Childhood, You Do Not Know What You Are Going To Stir Up. There are gadget fans out there that i would not want to meet in an alley in the street at night. I Functionally the Ehos that we go into every everything we do. There’s so much ip-Driven Stuff now, [and] We Really Feel Like You Have to Have A Certain Amount of Kicking Up Dust to Make It Wrtho It. You can be so revertential to the things that came before. Rescue Rangters Came Completely Out of That Ehos, Which Was Like, “How Do We Completely Destroy The Concept of Nostalgia?” But Even Going Into[[Naked gun]Was The Same Thing, Who’s Was Like, “We Really to Make Sure that It Has A Real Reason to Exist on Its Own.”
Any Naked gun lines or moments that make you the proudst?
Gregor The joke that just has the Never Gotten Old, Especialally in the Performance of It, Is The Economy The Danny Huston-Liam Neeson Fight Happles. The Whole Movie Is Building Up To Them Fighting Each Other, and the Very First Punch, He’s Like, “You Hurt My Tummy.” That’s what kind of Run Never, Never, Never Doesn’t Make Me Laugh Every Single Time I Watch.