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Naked Gun creator David Zucker is not impressed by upcoming reboot and slams Paramount for not reaching out: 'They're just gonna do what they want'


Although The Naked Gun fans are looking forward to a reboot next year, the new installment might be missing a particular something.

'We were not excited about having the franchise given to other people,' he said of co-creators, brother Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Pat Proft and Michael McManus. In 2022, it was announced that The Lonely Island member Akiva Schaffer was attached to direct and write a new draft of a script previously written by producer Seth MacFarlane Although Peter Segal took over as director for 1994's Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult, David returned as a producer and co-writer.

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