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Harry here.... Umm... joy... weeee... yeah...
Harry,
Sheila, Queen of the Hollywood Jungle here again....
Anyway, now safe at home and lounging in my underwear, (another practice to
avoid while at work...boy, could I tell you stories) I'm free to pass along a
new little factoid. Paramount Pictures is planning on reawakening one of it's
dormant franchises. Get ready America..."Naked Gun 4" is pointed your way.
Leslie Nielsen will once more play bumbling police detective Frank Drebbin
and look for the Zucker Brothers to reunite with their sometimes writing
partner Pat Proft who worked on the three previous "Gun" films. A director is
not yet attached.
No word on if O. J. Simpson will return as Detective Nordberg. Note: if you
want to see something eerie, rent the first Naked Gun movie. It opens with
O.J. creeping around wearing dark cloths and a nit-cap.
Half nakedly yours,
Sheila
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Aug 16, 1999 10:21:38 PM CDT
Part 4? Gosh we can only pray it will be as original and funny a
by brendan3
Did anyone actually laugh at Naked Gun 3? Ever hear the expression "flogging a dead horse?"
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What a great opportunity for O.J.? He gets to play a detective! Now he can ante up the search for the real killer.
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F.B. here, let me just say first off, that Harry, that Article was so funny, because the thought that they're considering, thinking about discussing making another Naked Gun sequel id funny. The original was pretty funny, 2 1/2 had some laughs, 33rd and a 3rd, suck my ass in hel. Let's not forget Nielson's latest movies in, Mr. Magoo, and Wrongfully accused. I gotta say Mr. Magoo, was a live action Disney movie, so that had an excuse, but Wrongfully Accused, just suck some more ass. Now making another Naked Gun movie, would not be a smart move, I hope someone can take this message and spread the word that another Naked Gun movie would bite shit, plus it would most likely tank at the Box Office. F.B. On Crap(N.G.4).
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If we there's room in the theaters for anymore Nicholas Cage movies than why not another Naked Gun. Leslie Nielsen is the king of spoof. And he's gonna make another one whether you approve or not, and I would much rather have it be Naked Gun 44 and 1/4. And acually, I remember seeing Neilsen being interviewed as the OJ trial was going on and he stated then that if another NG film was made that OJ wouldn't be welcome back.
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What the hell is all your guys problems. I'm pumped about another Naked Gun movie. The first two were great and the third was pretty good. In an era when "just above crap" explains most comedies (minus American Pie and Mystery Men though) a new Naked Gun movie would be a breath of fresh air, even if it is just another sequel.
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I agree with Ferris Bueller, although he forgot to mention the excruciatingly awful Spy Hard and Dracula:Dead and Loving It. I'm a fan of The Naked Gun series and I liked all 3 of them a lot but considering how unsuccessful most movie parodies have been lately, I doubt even Naked Gun 4 would do that well, unless the script still had some original ideas left, which I doubt. It would be interesting to see O.J. reprise his role. He was aquitted, he mine as well, Nordberg was funny. I think there may be hope for parodies though with the slasher flick parody coming out with the Wayans brothers. It sounds hilarious. They made the best parody of recent years (Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood).
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Myself, I am no fan. My folks on the other hand (MR & MRS HarBinger Snr) are very big fans of this kind o humour. Flying High, Naked Gun blah blah blah. They don't really pull my chain, but maybe, just maybe the target audience isn't "14-24 but still thinking like a 10 year old" for a change. Refreshing. These movies ain't for me, but that doesn't mean they ain't for everyone.
N.B. I saw the Naked gun movie with Anna Nicole Smith in it (I forget which one) and I must say the lipstick scene was quite funny. 'bout the only bit though. -
I'm with Ferris and Cineman! The first was a comedy classic, the second a good sequel (not as good but enjoyable), but the third one reeked!! I'm not too pushed about the prospect of another one. It's only gonna be the same rehash over again. The genre as a whole needs a new direction from someone new to give it a new lease of life. Like the way Scream breathed new life into the horror genre, Spoof needs a kick like that. At the moment it's the same guys all the time... Nielsen, the guys who did Airplane and Hot shots, some fresh ideas are needed before I'll get excited about a spoof again. Final word on Nielsen, he is pefect for these type of films. His deadpan style is unmatched and he is always, and in my eyes always will be, watchable. Unfortunately most of the films he is in are not, my blame is with the writers, I don't believe they are trying anymore. Still I wait with interest in Nielsen's take on Titanic, where they miss the 'berg! Made me giggle anyway!
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Oh come on now. A Naked Gun movie Without Simpson would be like An Indy movie without Harrison Ford. I would have a hard time seeing it NOT happening. I mean, you realize how many spoofs of the "Trial of the Century" they could do alone? Pure comedy.
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Wait till you see ole Leslie in "Camouflage". It is a total departure from his spoof parody films. It is a very black comedy written by Billy Bob Thornton, with swearing, nudity, viloence, et al. Leslie plays a last-of-the-Sam-Spade type detectives who's on his way out and has to train a new P.I. on his way in. The Cinematter website describes this film as such: James Keach directs this black comedy written by Billy Bob Thornton & Tom Epperson. Leslie Nielsen plays
Jack Potter, an aging private eye on the brink of retirement. Lochlyn Munro plays a failed actor named Marty
Mackenzie who is looking for a different career and feels that being a private investigator would be an easy job.
Potter sends him to Beaver Ridge in rural Oregon on an assignment but begins to get worried when he doesn't
hear back from his apprentice. He heads up the coast and discovers that the townspeople are not what they
seem and that the assignment is more dangerous than he possibly could have imagined. Also starring Vanessa
Angel, William Forsythe, Tom Aldredge, Frank Collison, Suzanne Krull, Patrick Warburton, and C. Ernst
Harth. (Interlight Pictures)
If we are to see Leslie Nielsen as a bumbling detective, I'd rather see him here. -
I feel the only way OJ will return is if the producers want to raise a bit of hype for a film that will probably need it. Kingbun mentioned an idea of OJ making jokes about the "trial of the century", but he's not gonna do that it's quite tasteless.
....On the other hand... get an actor who looks like OJ to play Nordberg, Get Nordberg involved in a "trial of the century", and the jokes write themselves, and will be even funnier as we will know exactly who they are taking the piss out of!! Now THAT, would be worth seeing! -
Ok, so naked gun3, mr magoo, and... you know, the fugitive spoof, weren't good...
Spy hard wasn't that bad, except everything funny was shown in the trailer...
so pretty much all of the last nielsen movies haven't been good.
But is it really his fault, i mean, statistically, nielsen is due for a good one. I hope they take their time with this one...
Good or not, at least admit that you would like to see another one, and with O.J, it could turn out ok... -
It just wouldn't be NAKED GUN without OJ.
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Hello Film Lovers!
Let's be honest, the first Naked Gun was hysterical. It was then ZAZ went there separte ways...Abrahams went to Hot Shots and Mafia! and the Zuckers did BASEketball. When they are not together, the product sucks(remember not all three were involved in the NG sequels). But together (Airplane, Top Secret, Ruthless People, Kentucky Fied Movie) the results are fantastic. This is their time again, with the Farrelly brothers and the Wietz Brothers making comedies that are in the same vein as the great ZAZ movies, and are doing big Box Office. ZAZ should re-unite but for a new spoof. Big-budget disaster movies? Overblown epics? Animated movies? Something else. Unlike "Spy Hard" or "Wrongfully Accused" ZAZ knows good parody id not recreating scenes from other movies in new settings. Anyone else out there have ideas on what sacred ground ZAZ can trample on next? -
For all of you out there who think that watching a man get hit in the nuts is the funniest thing out there, I guess this movie will have an audience. But my God, I hope this project is put down like the lame horse it is. A fourth Naked Gun Movie ( I don't want to see anyone using the term 'film'? What's next, another Corey Haim/Feldman stunner? May god have mercy on our souls.
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Cant wait for this one. There is no way you will see OJ Simpson in this movie, because of the bad press. Even though he got in the film by the 0.000001% chance, it would be a funny gag. How about having Frank Drebin spilling blood over the Bronco or dropping the glove.
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if O.J. is in it, and he gets his ass mowed down by a steam roller. Or has that happened already?
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OK, the truth: I don't believe there IS anything funnier than a guy getting hit in the nuts. I'll admit it. But I think the problem with the NAKED GUN flicks (and Nielsen vehicles in general) is that after the first film, Mielsen started to believe that HE is inherently funny. So he upped the mugging and dropped the deadpan, walking prop quality that made him so great in AIRPLANE. Having said as much, I thought NAKED GUN 33 1/3 was not that bad. Just saw it on cable the other night and got a few laughs. Then I got hit in the nuts.
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Don't insult the Coreys. License to Drive, The Lost Boys, Dream a Little Dream, National Lampoon's Island Vacation...some of the best "awful" movies ever. Great memories there. As for you, MADBOY, here's an idea. Why don't you go film a documentary up in the woods, alone?
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I think Peter Lupus was much funnier as Nordberg in the POLICE SQUAD tv series. If NAKED GUN 4 is a go, they'll probably just recast (why not Tim Meadows?) or eliminate the role.
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I think Peter Lupus
was much funnier as
Nordberg in the POLICE
SQUAD tv series. If
NAKED GUN 4 is a go,
they'll probably just
recast (why not Tim
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When I first heard that "Police Squad" was being made into a movie, I was really excited. I remembered sitting with my brother and my dad watching the TV show and laughing like crazy.
One of the best scenes I can remember is when Drebben worked undercover as a locksmith. He was using the key grinder when the key went ZIPPP out of his hands and in the air. he looked up at the roof, then 2 thugs walk in. they get tough and when they leave they slam the door, and about 4 thousand keys fall from the roof over Drebbon's head.
By that time you had already forgotten about the key incident.
Or when two guys are hiding behind irom drums shooting at one another. The camera then shows both of them in one shot, and they're about twelve feet apart, shooting at each other.
The movies, all 3, sucked BADLY. why? because they didn't require good comedy writing. They only required some big breasts, lots of sexual double entendre, and plenty of yukkety yuk at both.
Forget the 4th movie - rent some tapes of Police Squad instead.
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but only if it was shot as hardcore porn.
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Aug 17, 1999 1:02:46 PM CDT
screw the naked gun, I want Shelia to take off all her clothes!!
by tall_boy
c'mon, baby, you know you wanna. . .and yes, I know I'm being a prev. and NO I don't want e-mail asking if I want to pay for cyber porno, thankyouvery much!
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I'm going to assume the Haim/Feldman crack was sarcasm, because nobody can actually appreciate their movies, with the notable exception of The Lost Boys. And as for the documentary crack, I think I missed a joke there. Maybe I don't know the secret handshake. Anyway, my simple point is that many films are virtually insulted by their sequels. The first NG flick was very funny, the second, so-so, and then it snowballs. My "kicked-in-the-nuts" crack simply meant that, yes, it can be funny, but it should never be the best joke in a movie, and I fear that's what NG4 will resort to. I'm wondering why I'm writing a defense since you're such an obvious knucklehead, but it's more for the others here who may not have misconstrued my original message. As for you, Warrior (and I'm pretty sure that moniker is the misnomer of the decade), I hope you understand my message now. If not, let me know and I'll use smaller words.
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Aug 17, 1999 1:29:01 PM CDT
Long before Naked Gun graced our Movie plexes...it was a short l
by mckracken
BRING BACK THE 6' 9" FOOT TALL lab guy assistant dude!!! his head was always chopped out of the picture frame and he was constantly dropping food on people's heads!!! he was the Lab guy assistant!!! WE NEED THIS GUY!!! for a really fun time, rent the shows on video...they are hilarious! (all 6 of them) --MCK
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I always thought it would be funny to bring back the original Norberg ... in a sort of wink and nod sort of way.
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nordberg ... don't my spelling and grammar suck ;)
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To: Sherry Lansing
From: ZAZ
Re: Naked Gun 4
We're going with an entirely new concept on this one. We're calling it "The Naked Gun Project". Here's the pitch: Nordberg (O.J.) has disappeared while searching for the drug crazed Colombian golfers who killed his wife. Leslie and Priscilla Pres - wait, she's too old now, let's go with Tiffani Amber Theissen as Frank's love interest (same character/different actress). Anyway, Leslie, Tiffani and George Kennedy find videotapes that Nordberg shot (we don't see him. Actually we don't see him in the whole movie, because he disappeared and all we found were these tapes right?) Turns out he's been framed by these drug crazed Colombian golfers (more videotape of Nordberg on trial - we got a lot of those.) Can't reveal the surprise ending. We've heard that you're ambivalent about a 4th installment of this series, well, all we can say is that "If it's a hit, then you must not quit" making Naked Guns! -
You know, Kato was in Baseketball. Maybe he and OJ could share a tearful reunion in Naked Gun IV with Tonya Harding. OJ and Kato could express their admiration for how she whacked that Nancy Kerrigan bitch in the Olympics....
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HERE HE, IS, an old fart, and he gets to make out with some pretty damn hot girls in his films who agrees with me/
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OJ should be in the movie again and they should make fun of him and we should laugh cuz he's a dildo.
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Either in "Mafia" or in "Wrongfully Accused", I can't remember (plus both movies are intergachangeable). Anyway the scene at the bow of the ship was spoofed, with the girl getting her head cracked off a bridge while she is standing there with her arms spread.
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I have one little request. It isn't much to ask......
Please, please, please will people STOP making spoof movies of other peoples films. They suck, big time! Why can't the film directors of today think of other ways to amuse us other than making crappy spoof movies of crappy movies. C'mon guy's stop it now before it gets even more out of hand!
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It is plainly obvious that the man committed no crime, and was set up by the LAPD. That is why his brilliant defense team burned a hole in the prosecution and allowed the jury to see the real truth. Everyone knows that racist LAPD cop pig planted the glove behind the Juice's house. So, I hope O.J. gets to be in this film, because he was found innocent and should not be punished for something that he did not commit. However, Hollywood does not have the guts to bring back O.J., because they are afraid of the bad press and all the upper middle class white consertative pigs who just know O.J. is guilty. Because they were there right? No, because they are mad that O.J. was with a white woman in the first place and must see him burn at the stake because she was killed, even if it wasn't by his hands. P.S. All that blood in the Bronco, The police chase in the Bronco, The cut on O.J.'s hand, the bump in the night that that "B" movie freak Kato heard, proves absolutely nothing.
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Aug 18, 1999 7:18:02 AM CDT
I don't even think Leslie drinks "Orange Juice" anymore...
by mickey louse
Hey if it's done by the orignal Zucker team and is funnier than that horrid last one (c'mon Anna Nicole Smith and Pia Zadora?) then it'll be worth it.
Unless they can't stop Nielsen's constant mugging. Hey Leslie, look, the reason they hired you for Police Squad is because you came from a dramatic background... deadpan... funny... remember?
ANYWAY... the whole point of this was to say that during the whole OJ trial-thing, Nielsen came out publically (and excuse the wide paraphrasing) to say that he basically thought OJ was guilty as hell. That alone would mean no chance of Nordberg coming back methinks.
Unless you cast Ron Goldman too, just to make it interesting.
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i remember nielsen saying basically that he didn't know if oj was guilty or innocent, but either way he didn't think it would be wise to put him in the next movie because it would distract from the comedy.
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I bet the movie will be called:
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Actually, I believe the title will be "The Naked Gun: the suare root of 44 to the 4th power"
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I see THE NAKED GUN series as something that can go on and on. Unlike most sequels which trash the memory of the originals (i.e. PSYCHO II, CARRIE II, HALLOWEEN II, JAWS II, THE STING II, hell even SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT II), I don't really see what damage a sequel can do. Remember, the three films were based on the cult (and utterly brilliant, but short-lived) TV series POLICE SQUAD! which aired in the summer of 1982. I see the films as a continuation of the series, which satirized '60s and '70s cop shows. NAKED GUN 4 isn't like PSYCHO 4, where Norman, now a happily married man, spills his guts out (ha-ha) on a radio call-in show about matricide. I won't even begin to list the faults of this pitiful made-for-cable flick. How can you damage a character in a Naked Gun flick? You can't, really. I say, more power to ZAZ!
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Didn't Pat Proft die last year? Or am I thinking of some other humorist/screenwriter who once ran for President as an independent candidate? Someone correct me on this...
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This will be sooo cool. It will be for sure more cool than Baseketball.
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I am a HUGE fan of the first 3 films. But there is no need for a fourth. Please let this not be true. It would ruin the joy of the first 3 to be spoiled by having a fourth.
From Brad.
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