Authentic Bare Gun Director Condemns Liam Neeson’s Reboot

The director of the primary two Bare Gun films, David Zucker, was left feeling unimpressed with Akiva Schaffer’s legacy sequel, which stars Liam Neeson. In his opinion, cash was the one factor that anybody who took half in that movie was after.

In an interview with Girl’s World, Zucker slammed the latest addition to the franchise. The director harshly accused him of ripping off the unique movies and someway nonetheless lacking the purpose on the similar time.

Zucker claimed that he, his brother Jerry, and Jim Abrahams had been those who created the form of “spoof comedy” that movies akin to The Bare Gun fall underneath. He believed that ever since then, folks within the leisure business have been making an attempt to “copy” them as a result of they had been so good that they made it look “simple” to outsiders.

My brother, Jerry, and our companion, Jim Abrahams, began doing spoof comedies 50 years in the past, and we originated our personal type — and we did that so effectively that it appears simple, evidently. Folks began copying it, like Seth MacFarlane for the brand new ‘Bare Gun.’ He completely missed it.

Zucker additionally had some selection phrases concerning the brand new Bare Gun’s $42 million finances, whereas his movie solely price $14.5 million. He acknowledged that comedies ought to have a excessive price ticket. Nonetheless, that comparability could be a bit of unfair as a consequence of the truth that the brand new sequel was filmed in 2025 whereas Zucker’s was made in 1988. As most individuals are conscious, costs for just about every little thing have skyrocketed over the previous 37 years. If adjusted for inflation, the amount of cash Zucker spent would equal round $38 million in 2025. So, it is fairly near what the most recent Bare Gun reportedly price, making his feedback appear a bit of hypocritical.

You shouldn’t spend an excessive amount of cash on comedies, and one in all our guidelines is about technical pizzazz. Large budgets and comedy are opposites, and within the new Bare Gun, you can see that they spent some huge cash on scenes filled with technical pizzazz whereas making an attempt to repeat our type.

The director added that he believed the brand new Bare Gun was primarily only a money seize. He closely implied that everybody was solely in it for the cash.

Everyone’s in it for the cash now, and that looks like the one motive why they wished to do a brand new ‘Bare Gun.’

The Bare Gun (2025) is on the market to stream on Paramount+.