News about David Zucker

Although The Naked Gun fans are looking forward to a reboot next year, the new installment might be missing a particular something. After Paramount announced a release date in February, Naked Gun co-creator David Zucker told TMZ that he's 'not involved' as the studio hasn't 'asked me for my help.' 'Paramount is just going ahead and doing it, they haven't involved me,' he said. 'So, I don't have any thoughts on it,' added Zucker. 'They're just gonna do what they want, that's Hollywood.' With multiple attempts at reviving the franchise in previous years, Zucker and his co-creators have been developing their own sequel since 2017.

Scary Movie is being rebooted, 11 years after the last film - Scream 5 - was released in theaters. The new take on the famous franchise was revealed by Paramount at CinemaCon on Thursday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Paramount will distribute the movie and Miramax is financing it, per the outlet.

A new version of The Naked Gun, which has been in the works for a number of years, has finally arrived at a release date. According to a number of publications that include Variety, Paramount Pictures announced on Friday that the yet untitled comedy cop film starring Liam Neeson in the role of the incompetent police officer Frank Drebin was scheduled to premiere in theaters on July 15, 2025. The new movie will be based off the popular Naked Gun film franchise and television series Police Squad! The late great Leslie Nielsen was played by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker. Akiva Schaffer, who co-wrote the draft screenplay with Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, will act as the director and executive producer. The trio had previously worked together on Chip 'N Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022), a live-action and animation hybrid. Schaffer, Dan Gregor, and Doug Mand wrote an updated version of the script from Seth MacFarlane's contribution, Mark Hentemann, and Alec Sulkin.

Zucker, who's films include Airplane! Hollywood has 'destroyed' comedy by pandering to a minority of easily offended viewers, as seen in the Naked Gun movie. The director said the only way Airplane! If they had deleted all of the jokes from the film, they may have made it today. Airplane! Two black characters are given subtitles in a scene where they 'jive' back and forth to each other, with definite non-PC humor.