Release date, cast, trailer, and more

The naked pistolOne of the most stupid franchises in the last half century, returns with a crash, splat and ka-power this summer.

Liam Neeson will play in a future restart of the emblematic franchise of director Akiva Schaffer, the former lonely island behind the cultural cults like Hot rod (2007) and Popstar: never stop never stopping (2016).

Released in 1988 The naked pistol: files of the police team! Police procedures parodied via rapid shooting jokes, wacky Slapstick, and a lead profoundly committed by Leslie Nielsen like Lieutenant Sweet (and DIM) Frank Drebin.

The restart has been underway since 2013, but he has taken steam once Family guy And Spoil The Seth MacFarlane brain came as a producer in 2021.

So is it a sequel or a new story? What is it? Who joins Neeson in the cast? Will they address the OJ Simpsons of all this? Read the rest for everything we know The naked pistol restart.

Is there a Naked pistol trailer?

There are two. In April 2025, a trailer for The naked pistol Started in Cinemacon, an annual event for Hollywood studios and exhibitors.

In June 2025, Paramount published an appropriate trailer for restarting. The clip demonstrates a strong understanding of what made the series original so funny – Madcap Zanness anchored by a hetero imperturbable man.

The trailer also highlights some of Schaffer’s stylistic fulfillment, such as images of bodycam-pov which evoke the chaos of shows as Cops And Live pd.

The two trailers have a well-executed joke involving Simpson, the elephant in the room. (One of the most notable cultural figures of the last decades, Simpson has been a key element in the original franchise as det. Fred Nordberg.)

What is The naked pistol about?

The naked pistol is a direct sequel to the original trilogy, with Neeson playing Lieutenant Frank Drebin Jr., son of Nielsen’s Bumbling Lawman. “A single man has a particular set of skills … to lead the police team and save the world!” reads the official line line. “Lieutenant Frank Drebin Jr. follows his father’s footsteps The naked pistol. “”

In an amusing shipment of the Hollywood inclination to make restart characters linked to original franchise players, the trailers also present the children of Ed Hockenge Kennedy and Nordberg de Simpson, the first of which is played by Paul Wates Hauser.

As we see in the trailer, The naked pistol Tasera Frank to have helped Beth de Pamela Anderson to catch his brother’s killer. This affair finds Frank who flows unlike a great villain played by Danny Huston. However, the most important thing, however ,’s success of Frank also depends on the closure of the police or not and has turned into a Halloween spirits.

New Naked pistol casting?

Neeson leads The naked pistol As Frank Drebin Jr., it is an inspired casting choice, because the steel face and the dramatic background of Neeson make him the perfect hetero man for the franchise token. For fear that we forget, Nielsen was also a dramatic actor who found a second life in comedy thanks to Plane! (1980).

Neeson was nominated for an Oscars, two Tony Awards and three Golden Globes. He achieved critical success in films like Sam Raimi Black (1990) and Steven Spielberg Schindler list (1993). He also notably portrayed Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) and Ra’s Al Ghul in Batman begins (2005). After playing in Taken (2008), he moved his concentration to action and revenge films with hard edges like Gray (2011), Non -stop (2014), and Punishment (2023).

Speak with MOMEWEB In 2024, Neeson admitted that he was “a little nervous” about the role because comedy is not his wheelhouse. In this same interview, however, he noted his comic appearance on The Hbo Mockumentary Life is too short (2011), which shows that, yes, it can absolutely do comedy.

Speak with Weekly entertainmentAnderson called his chemistry with Neeson “electric”, adding, “I am impressed by him, his experience and work ethics. I dipped him like a sponge.”

Anderson (Baywatch, The Last Showgirl) I will play a femme fatale in the vein of Jane Spencer of Priscilla Presley of original films. “It is the same process depth for a high comedy as for a drama,” Anderson told EW. “I worked hard on the role, another cathartic experience. Each film, it seems, tackles a deep problem which must be expressed and surface in a way other than anything else.”

Hauser Costar like Ed Hocken Jr., the son of the captain of George Kennedy of the original franchise. The actor first made waves Me, Tanya (2017) and as a title character in Clint Eastwood Richard Jewell (2019). He has since won a Golden Globe and an Emmy for his turn as a murderer sentenced Larry Hall in the Apple TV + series Black bird (2022).

“I have the feeling that we have done a good job to honor our source material, Naked pistol, ” Hauser said Movieweb. “And there are not many people who would enter into this role of the Leslie Nielsen type, and Liam made it incredibly well. I had times when he made me break the character because he just does the thing without ridiculous. God, you know?

Huston, a veteran of Yellowstone (2018-2019) and Succession (2019), seems to play the film’s big bad bad. The actors are Liza Koshy (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts), Kevin Durand (Lost, abigail), and CCH POUNDER (The Shield, NCIS: New Orleans), as well as the star of WWE Cody Rhodes.

When The naked pistol to go out?

The naked pistol will arrive in theaters on August 1 via Paramount Pictures.

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