Ed Helms to Star in The Naked Gun Reboot
Paramount Pictures has brought Ed Helms ("The Hangover" films, We're the Millers) on board to star in a reboot of "The Naked Gun" comedy franchise, reports Variety.
The return of Detective Frank Drebin, played by Leslie Nielsen in the original films, will be written by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, best known for the "Night at the Museum" and "Reno 911!" franchises.
Quelle: ComingsoonThe Naked Gun Reboot Will be More Sequel Than Remake
It was announced last month that Paramount Pictures had signed Ed Helms to lead a reboot of the comedy franchise The Naked Gun. Today, CraveOnline caught up with co-screenwriter Ben Garant (who writes alongside creative partner Thomas Lennon) and learned that the project isn't so much a remake as a sequel.
"Right now we're calling it 'Episode IV: A New Hope,'" Garant says. "That will change, but that's the working title... Our take is that Ed Helms is Frank Drebin, no relation. That's how he introduces himself."
Based on the earlier short-lived ABC TV series "Police Squad!"(which also starred Leslie Nielsen and was created by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker), three films were released including The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988), The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) and The Naked Gun 33 /3: The Final Insult (1994).
Similar to what was done with John Singleton's Shaft, J.J. Abrams' Star Trek or even the surprisingly franchise continuity-faithful Herbie Fully Loaded (that Garant and Lennon also drafted), The Naked Gun will use the "no relation" joke to offer a rebooted protagonist without technically contradicting the events of any of the previous films. In fact, Garant suggests that his aim is to capture the style of the original films without repeating the specific storyline.
"We are trying to reinvent the world," he says, "because that world was very 'Dragnet,' but we're trying to fit in 100 jokes a page... It's going to be a lot of fun. We're very much embracing the style."
Höre gerade zum ersten mal von diesem Reboot/Sequel und bin leicht schockiert. Normalerweise machen mir Reboots nichts aus und ich halte auch Ed Helms für einen talentierten Komödiendarsteller, aber Die Nackte Kanone ist für mich unweigerlich mit dem unglaublichen Leslie Nielsen (Gott hab ihn selig.
Ansonsten würde ich mich aber sehr über eine derartige Komödie freuen - so lange sie gut wird.
Habe letztens noch gedacht, dass es heutzutage anscheinend gar keine vernünftigen "Sinnfrei-Komödien", wie Ace Ventura, Scary Movie oder eben Die Nackte Kanone, mehr gibt.
