David Zucker has no intentions of seeing the upcoming remake of “The Naked Gun.”
Paramount Photos dropped the primary teaser Thursday to trending outcomes and thousands and thousands of views. Zucker, who directed the unique 1989 movie and the comedy traditional “Airplane!” (1980), reacted with a reasonably vivid description that’s prone to set off untold web customers.
“I never saw ‘Airplane 2’ because you can’t unsee that stuff,” Zucker instructed TMZ. “I’m not planning on seeking the ‘Naked Gun’ remake either. I regret having seen the trailer for it. It’s like watching ‘2 Girls 1 Cup.’ I can’t unsee it.”
Whereas arguably an esoteric reference at the moment, “2 Girls 1 Cup” was one of the broadly shared web movies of the late 2000s — and confirmed two girls consuming what seems to be feces in what was reportedly the trailer for a Brazilian scat fetish porn movie.
It impressed baffling advertising stunts on the time even from company giants like Coca-Cola. As evident by the unfavorable comparability Thursday, Zucker is taking the approaching fourth entry in his beloved franchise personally — and arguably has good purpose.
The unique trilogy was based mostly on his 1982 sequence “Police Squad!”, which spoofed procedural cop reveals and starred Leslie Nielsen as bumbling cop Frank Drebin. Zucker co-created the franchise together with his brother Jerry and late author and director Jim Abrahams.
Zucker appeared enthusiastic when he stated in 2013 that “there’s something you can do” with a fourth movie. The author-director instructed TMZ on Thursday, nonetheless, that he and his companions Pat Proft and Mike McManus submitted a script for it in 2018, however by no means heard again.
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Paramount in the end settled on what the teaser guarantees is a highly-self conscious reboot from former “Saturday Night Live” author Akiva Schaffer, one-third of the comedy musical group “The Lonely Island,” with Oscar winner Liam Neeson changing the late Nielsen.
Whether or not the ultimate product succeeds on the field workplace can be seen upon launch on Aug. 1.
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