They are rebooting... The Naked Gun?

[Argus Skyhawk]

I didn't expect this one.

I'm not sure what to think.

Anyway I thought the first movie was hilarious, the second was pretty funny, and the third was dreadfully unfunny.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

No one cant top Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebbin.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

I like Tom Lennon, but without Abrahams and the Zuckers, or Leslie Neilsen, it's not really The Naked Gun. It's just a new cop comedy using an established name to get a release date. This seems out of left field to me, but I guess anything can be a potential franchise.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

No one cant top Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebbin.

I always thought Michael Hogan could try. I mean, can't you just see Saul Tigh having the kind of lines that Drebin had?

As for this reboot: Fine by me. As anyone who's seen Police Squad! knows, Frank Drebin is not supposed to be a comic figure. He's a straightlaced professional, and IS ACTUALLY A GOOD COP. The funny things happen TO him and AROUND him, they are not done BY him. That's the whole point of the character! Drebin is not supposed to be the bumbling idiot that the films made him out to be. Police Squad! is a spoof of - or, more accurately, a tribute to - those old Quinn Martin shows. They're not supposed to be slapstick, at least not overtly so. The films turned Drebin into a parody of himself, and were just a pathetic joke (and not in a good way).

So since this time around, there isn't a TV series to shit on - just this film as a standalone thing - then nuDrebin isn't ruining anything, since it's just starting over from scratch.

"We're sorry to bother you at a time like this, Mrs. Twice. We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then."

 

[Owain Taggart]

I love the movies, but I'm not so sure how I feel about a reboot. Especially not with that actor slated to play the character. I agree that Micheal Hogan would be a better choice. And I'm not so sure it would really work, as the movies were a product of a different time.

 

[Kirby]

I just don't see Ed Helms as Drebin. Michael Hogan yes, but they're just going for name recognition with Helms. I'll pass.

 

[Forbin]

Well, this is a pointless waste of money.

 

[StolenThunder]

Like the National Anthem without Enrico Palazzo.

 

[Relayer1]

Well, this is a pointless waste of money.

True, but an understatement...

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Also the dominant style of humor when the Naked Gun movies came out is very different from the dominant style of humor now. The direct absurdity and parody of the Naked Gun movies doesn't fly today, and the Naked Gun franchise doesn't fly without it.

 

[Kira's Mom]

No. Just no. Leslie Nielsen is turning in his grave (and making a lot of noise with his whoopee cushion!).

 

[the G-man]

Ed Helms?

Seriously?

The whole reason that Nielson worked as Drebin was because he played it 100% straight and looked like a guy who played a homicide cop (and often did) in cheesy 60s and 70s cop shows.

The only way this would/could work is if you get the same kind of actor, someone who could've been a cast member on Law and Order or some such show. Helms is not that type of actor.

Patrick Warburton or Nick Offerman might be able to pull it off. Hell, Ed O'Neill might work. But the milquetoast from 'the hangover' and ' the Office'.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I just don't see Ed Helms as Drebin. Michael Hogan yes, but they're just going for name recognition with Helms. I'll pass.

That's weird, as I'd think Micheal Hogan to be a bigger name. I didn't know who Ed Helms was until this thread.

 

[Venardhi]

For some reason Jon Hamm comes to mind as a pick. I've never cared for Helms though.

 

[Skellington]

I wonder if they're dropping the character's accident-prone nature and complete obliviousness. If they are then maybe it'll be more like Police Squad! and different enough from the movies to be interesting. If not then they could be missing the point about Drebin's success, which IMO is that a well-known archetype - the Clouseau, if you like - was introduced to a new environment. In short, maybe the new Frank Drebin shouldn't be Frank Drebin.

 

[Yoda]

I just don't see Ed Helms as Drebin. Michael Hogan yes, but they're just going for name recognition with Helms. I'll pass.

That's weird, as I'd think Micheal Hogan to be a bigger name. I didn't know who Ed Helms was until this thread.

Yes, but when you looked it up you were like "oh shit, The Office (US Edition please nobody in the UK get mad I know I know), and all those stupid ass Hangover movies? Yup much bigger than Michael Hogan..." right?

Michael Hogan is sci-fi semi-famous. Ed Helms is... regular famous.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

I saw the first 2 stupid ass Hangover movies and I had no idea who he was.

 

[Gaith]

^ Don't blame your lack of familiarity with the early Stewart years of The Daily Show on us, hombre.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I agree, Ed Helms was perfect for The Hangover and for Andy Bernard but he doesn't react the way to things Frank Drebbin does.

But my interest in this movie has more to do with the writer than the actors. Do they get a good writer for it or do they go for bargain basement Hollywood writer?

 

[Owain Taggart]

I just don't see Ed Helms as Drebin. Michael Hogan yes, but they're just going for name recognition with Helms. I'll pass.

That's weird, as I'd think Micheal Hogan to be a bigger name. I didn't know who Ed Helms was until this thread.

Yes, but when you looked it up you were like "oh shit, The Office (US Edition please nobody in the UK get mad I know I know), and all those stupid ass Hangover movies? Yup much bigger than Michael Hogan..." right?

Michael Hogan is sci-fi semi-famous. Ed Helms is... regular famous.

By the titles, yes, but I've not seen anything he's been in, so he's unfamiliar to me. Just had no interest in seeing The Office or the Hangover movies. I know that sounds odd, but I've been exposed to Micheal Hogan in more things more often than this guy, more recently a Canadian TV series in which he's a semi-regular. I think it's normal for someone to live with different levels of familiarity. So yeah, just not familiar with anything he's done.

Even Donald Sutherland would be a better choice, coincidentally another Canadian just like Nielsen. If they go with this younger guy, it would make more sense to have continuity of sorts by making him Frank Drebin's grandson.