Police Squad is at risk, and there's just one man for the job — sadly, as a result of he's not superb at it.

The primary trailer for The Naked Gun reboot options Liam Neeson bumbling himself into all method of compromising positions. His Frank Drebin Jr., son of the equally lovable-yet-incompetent cop portrayed by Leslie Nielsen within the 1988 basic from David Zucker, is tasked by commander CCH Pounder with the final word job: "They're going to close down Police Squad should you don't resolve this case."

However as typically as Drebin Jr. is seen combating crime, he's seen in mock bodycam-style footage discharging his weapon to chop a restaurant lavatory line, asking a perp why they "served 20 years for 'man's laughter,'" and driving off in a automobile up to date with "essentially the most superior expertise" with the charging wire nonetheless connected, inflicting a large explosion.

The case in query? Pamela Anderson, filling the identical damsel-in-distress/potential-femme-fatale function performed by Priscilla Presley within the unique, delivers the small print.

"Over right here, lieutenant. I feel somebody murdered my brother," she tells Neeson in a sultry tone that conveys intelligence and instructions respect. However she could deserve as little as Drebin Jr., who asks her to sit in his workplace, prompting her to actually take the chair in her hand and stroll out.

There are direct nods to Nielsen model, and Neilsen himself. Drebin Jr. says, "Hello, Daddy, It's me" to a portrait of Nielsen's character at Police Squad HQ in a shot that pulls again to a complete line of officers paying comparable respects to their cop-fathers. Paul Walter Hauser, who performs Drebin Jr.'s right-hand-man on the Police Squad, is revealed because the son of George Kennedy's Captain Ed Hocken, and Moses Jones, the one dry-eyed, even dubious-looking officer within the lineup, is revealed because the son of O.J. Simpson's Detective Nordberg.

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If Neeson, Hauser, Jones, Pounder, and even Anderson don't get their acts collectively, Police Squad is underneath menace of going the way in which all fallow enterprises appear to go as of late: turning right into a Spirit Halloween.

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"Just one man has the actual set of abilities… to steer Police Squad and save the world!" reads The Bare Gun official logline.

The reboot has been within the works since 2013, with The Workplace star Ed Helms initially connected to star. Comedy super-producer Seth MacFarlane got here on board to supply in 2021, and The Lonely Island star Akiva Schaffer was ultimately introduced in as director. The movie was written by Schaffer, Dan Gregor (Loopy Ex-Girlfriend, Doolittle), and Doug Mand (How I Met Your Mom).

The solid additionally contains Danny Huston (Start, Horizon, Succession), Kevin Durand (Clown in a Cornfield, Abigail), Eddie Yu (The Pitt, Bosch: Legacy), WWE wrestler Cody Rhodes, and social media star Liza Koshy.

In Might, Anderson, who's at the moment using the wave of a long-anticipated and well-deserved comeback, ushered in by her acclaimed efficiency in 2024's The Last Showgirl, instructed Leisure Weekly final month that her course of making ready for a comedy like The Bare Gun is just like that of The Final Showgirl.

"I labored arduous on the function, one other cathartic expertise," the Golden Globe nominee mentioned. "Each movie, it appears, tackles a deep-seated difficulty that must be expressed and surfaced in methods apart from anything."

Anderson additionally spoke glowingly of Neeson, whom she calls "mysterious," "inspiring," and a "true gentleman." She referred to as their chemistry "electrical in a method," and mentioned the Northern Irish actor is "a legend and deserving of the title."

The Bare Gun hits theaters on Aug. 1, 2025.

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