Detective Frank Drebin is coming back with Ed Helms on board to portray Leslie Nielsen’s character in Paramount’s reboot of “The Naked Gun” comedy franchise.
The studio has tapped the scripting team of Thomas Lennon and R. Ben Garant — best known for the “Night at the Museum” and “Reno 911″ franchises, to write the screenplay as a new spin on the Drebin character.
Helms starred in “The Hangover” trilogy and “We’re the Millers” and recently recently wrapped “Stretch” opposite Chris Pine and Patrick Wilson. He stars in the romcom parody “They Came Together,” which will premiere at Sundance, opposite Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler.
ive got police squad on dvd :D might rewatch them all this xmas
I think they should build a time machine solely for the purpose of making more Naked Gun movies. Frank Drebin can't be played by anyone else but Leslie Nielsen, it's blasphemy.
Its like trying to do The Pink Panther without Peter Sellers.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383216/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383216/)
It failed.