{"id":184099,"date":"2025-07-31T16:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/a-new-naked-gun-just-didnt-make-sense-without-liam-neeson\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:58:14","slug":"a-new-naked-gun-just-didnt-make-sense-without-liam-neeson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/a-new-naked-gun-just-didnt-make-sense-without-liam-neeson\/","title":{"rendered":"A New \u2018Naked Gun\u2019 Just Didn\u2019t Make Sense Without Liam Neeson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Frank makes mention during the film that he wrote a love song for Beth, and you end up paying that off with the track that plays over the credits. Considering your musical background, was that a must-include?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">I\u2019m happy you like that, because I added it three weeks ago. For months we\u2019d been going, \u201cWouldn\u2019t it be funny if he had a song?\u201d But I was just underwater trying to get the movie done, and so there was no time for anything bonus. We finally locked picture on a Wednesday, and suddenly I had this free day ahead of a screening on Thursday night, and I was sitting in the edit room with my laptop and podcasting microphone and I just improvised the song. I would hit pause, play back, erase a few things, move a few things, tell everyone to be quiet, and I would just sing in my Frank voice. [<em>Laughs<\/em>] I threw it in the end credits for that night with my voice. I texted Liam, \u201cI know you don\u2019t think of yourself as a singer, but would you be willing to do a song if it was very silly and low-key singing?\u201d And he was game. He went into the studio in New York and recorded it while I was on Zoom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Everything else, I test, I screen for friends, I make sure it\u2019s working. But that was a last-second toss-in. The only problem is how late it is. There\u2019s only some people that are going to stay and listen to it. Anyone who knows <em>Naked Gun<\/em> should stay through the credits, because there\u2019s always jokes in the words, which we have in ours as well. But there\u2019s also a <strong>\u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic<\/strong> coda at the very end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>I feel like whenever there\u2019s a new studio comedy these days, there\u2019s all this pressure, like, \u201cIs this the movie that will save big-screen comedies?!\u201d And you guys even got in on the conversation with a <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NakedGunMovie\/status\/1947703751890112860\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/NakedGunMovie\/status\/1947703751890112860&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NakedGunMovie\/status\/1947703751890112860\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PSA<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Then, whenever a movie works, it\u2019s an anomaly. Everyone talks about, \u201cWhat did we learn from <em>Barbie<\/em>?\u201d And you\u2019re like, To make lightning in a bottle? What did we learn from <em>Minecraft<\/em>\u2014the world is unpredictable? There\u2019s very little you glean from these massive, billion-dollar hits, so it\u2019s always funny that they assign all this meaning. It\u2019s like that anytime anything comes out besides a superhero movie. But also every time a superhero movie doesn\u2019t do good, it\u2019s like, \u201cWell, superhero movies are dead,\u201d and then the next one makes a billion dollars!<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>In the creative process for something like <em>Naked Gun,<\/em> are you able to ignore how comedies have struggled in theaters? Or does that seep in at all?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">I\u2019m not thinking about it at all. I do know when I\u2019m signing up for this that this specific subgenre of comedy\u2014the spoof\u2014has been dead for a long time. And that\u2019s part of why I get attracted to it, because I grew up loving these kinds of movies, and then they\u2019re just gone. At screenings, certain 15-year-olds truly didn\u2019t understand what they were seeing for a while. If they hadn\u2019t seen <em>Austin Powers<\/em> or one of the <em>Scary Movies,<\/em> then they wouldn\u2019t know anything. It was interesting introducing the genre. And you could see some kids lit up\u2014being like, Oh my God, adults can be this silly. And others couldn\u2019t wrap their heads around it. For me, similar to <em>Bash Brothers,<\/em> there\u2019s that level of misguidedness, punk rockness, of going into something that you know is unpopular on purpose because there\u2019s something a little dangerous about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Between this and another <em>Scary Movie<\/em> coming from the Wayans brothers, hopefully we\u2019ll get the spoof going for that next generation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">To go to my own stuff, <em>MacGruber<\/em> is an offshoot of this genre. <em>Popstar<\/em> is a different version. So they do exist, but <em>Popstar<\/em> was nine years ago. What we\u2019re also missing is <strong>Will Ferrell<\/strong> and <strong>Adam McKay<\/strong> having a new movie every two to three years, or even <strong>Adam Sandler<\/strong>\u2014all of his are on Netflix. So there is definitely a hole there. When you\u2019re writing a comedy, you\u2019re visualizing: What if Liam Neeson says this line, and then one day I\u2019m at a movie theater, with a packed house, and everyone\u2019s laughing at it? That\u2019s the whole dream of making any comedy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/story\/naked-gun-akiva-schaffer-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank makes mention during the film that he wrote a love song for Beth, and you end up paying that off with the track that plays over the credits. Considering your musical background, was that a must-include? I\u2019m happy you like that, because I added it three weeks ago. For months we\u2019d been going, \u201cWouldn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[884],"class_list":{"0":"post-184099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-liam-neeson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}