Let's anticipate the new Naked Gun film starring AI Liam Neeson

https://i.imgur.com/2Az68AI.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8-N8IIq_8I

not gonna lie, the oj bit got me

Wait, what

This seems like it should just be a Funny Or Die trailer

Oh my word. It actually is real.

Now, the basic gag with Police Squad, going back to Airplane!, was that Leslie Nielsen was a slightly stuff, old-fashioned character actor who found himself having to deliver silly puns with a straight face while chaos happened behind him. Which was funny because of the contrast between his inherent gravitas and the puns. Whereas Neeson is just intense and brooding. The puns will just come across as off-putting and out of place.

It's produced by Seth Macfarlane, so my hunch is that most of the jokes will consist of references to things rather than actual jokes. There'll be a short scene where Neeson gate-crashes a concert held by a copy of Lady Gaga, but - hilariously - she sings badly and looks stupid. His boss will by played by an actual who dresses up as Robert Oppenheimer and is reluctant to send the Police Squad on the case because he feels he has blood on his hands.

Drebin will dress in a yellow sports suit and accidentally get a pair of mops glued to his hands, and it'll be hilarious because he looks a bit like Wolverine. Etc.

God help me that trailer made me chuckle

is Liam Neeson a person

If it's a MacFarlane thing we may get a gag based on the rumors about Neeson's almost prehensile-ly large cock, so there's that.

it's written by akiva schaffer of the lonely island

so if you think the trailer is funny it's probably because it's funny

i actually lol’ed but i’m a sucker for this kind of thing

As we previously revealed, Charli XCX is in talks for the role of the white witch and Daniel Craig is also being courted for the project

Sort of a “per my last email” energy there, because of course we’ve all been doggedly tracking this project

I lol’ed !

God help us all.

Nielsen is one of the few actors who can mug wildly and play super broad without it coming across as tryhard - whereas Neeson has been funny before but there is some flopsweat there that is a bit of a comedy killer for me. Trailer had two solid jokes though, so who knows?

Nielsen is terrible in every comedy he made that's not the first two Naked Gun flicks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqA577_IoBk

Turns out he was serious

Nielsen is terrible in every comedy he made that's not the first two _Naked Gun_ flicks.

Nielsen is terrible in every comedy he made that's not after the first two _Naked Gun_ flicks.

uh airplane!?

oh sure of course

Forgot about this one:

https://i.imgur.com/V6J9VrQ.jpg

it's written by akiva schaffer of the lonely island

with Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Schaffer’s Chip ‘n’ Dale Rescue Rangers movie

I don’t think I will

Preview tonight. At least it's 85 minutes long.

At most, too.

again, i will basically watch anything made by the ppl who were involved in popstar. looking forward to this

Early word of mouth has been surprisingly strong.