The Naked Gun
The Naked Gun | |
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Created by | Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker |
Original work | Police Squad! (1982) |
Owner | Paramount Global |
Films and television | |
Film(s) | The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult (1994) |
Television series | Police Squad! (1982) |
Miscellaneous | |
Starring |
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Budget | $65 million[citation needed] (Total of 3 films) |
Box office | $477 million (Total of 3 films) |
The Naked Gun
The franchise was met with mostly positive critical reception,[1][2][3] and the films were a financial box office success.
Television
Police Squad! (1982)
An American
Film
Title | U.S. release date |
Director | Screenwriters | Story by | Producer(s) |
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | December 2, 1988 | David Zucker | Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker & Pat Proft | Robert K. Weiss | |
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear | June 28, 1991 | David Zucker & Pat Proft | |||
Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult
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March 18, 1994 | Peter Segal | Pat Proft and David Zucker & Robert LoCash |
Robert K. Weiss and David Zucker | |
Untitled film | July 18, 2025 | Akiva Schaffer | Dan Gregor & Doug Mand and Mark Hentemann & Alec Sulkin and Seth MacFarlane |
Seth MacFarlane and David Zucker & Pat Proft and R. Ben Garant
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Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins |
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
Detective Frank Drebin (
On the case, Drebin falls in love with Ludwig's assistant, Jane Spencer (Priscilla Presley). She knows nothing about Ludwig's plot, and after the pair spends the night together, Jane helps with Frank's investigation.
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
Frank discovers that Jane's new boyfriend, Quentin Hapsburg (Robert Goulet), is involved in an evil plan to kidnap Dr. Albert S. Meinheimer (Richard Griffiths), a scientist whom President George H. W. Bush (John Roarke) has chosen to determine a new national energy policy. Hapsburg plans to kidnap the real Dr. Meinheimer and replace him with a lookalike named Earl Hacker (also portrayed by Griffiths) who will endorse an energy policy according to the dictates of the energy lobby.
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)
In the third film of the series, Frank is married to Jane, and he has retired from Police Squad. The film introduces the criminal Rocco Dillon (Fred Ward), who is stuck in prison. He is contacted by someone called Papshmir to be given a target for a bombing. Frank is pulled out of retirement. He goes undercover pretending to be a prisoner named "Nick 'the Slasher' McGurk Jr., III" at the jail where Dillon is being held, and they break out of jail. Outside they are escorted by Dillon's gangster mother (Kathleen Freeman) to his country retreat, where Frank also meets Rocco's voluptuous moll (Anna Nicole Smith). The gang plots to blow up the Academy Awards. When Jane arrives looking for Frank, she is taken hostage.
Future
In 2009, it was revealed that a fourth movie starring
In December 2013,
In January 2021, it was announced that Seth MacFarlane had been hired to further develop the project. After MacFarlane had previously expressed interest in casting Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr. in 2015, the filmmaker was hired by the studio. Neeson revealed that the filmmaker alongside Paramount Pictures had approached him with a pitch to star in the movie.[14][15] In June of the same year, Neeson stated that MacFarlane was working on a new draft of the script, with the studio additionally negotiating the filmmaker's potential role as director. He expressed excitement for the project and the opportunity to explore a more comedic role, should he decide to star in the movie; while stating that development on the project is ongoing.[16] In February 2022, Neeson again confirmed that Paramount is still courting him to star in the legacy sequel.[17]
In October 2022, the film was officially greenlit with Neeson in the lead role. Directed by
Video games
The Naked Gun: ICUP (2012)
The Naked Gun: ICUP, a
The game received an average score of 60 on the review aggregator Metacritic.[25]
Recurring cast and characters
This section includes characters who will appear or have appeared in notable roles.
- An empty, dark grey cell indicates the character was not in the film, or that the character's official presence has not yet been confirmed.
- P indicates an appearance in onscreen photographs.
Character | Television | Film | |||
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Police Squad! | The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear |
Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult |
Untitled film | |
1982 | 1988 | 1991 | 1994 | TBA | |
Det. Lt. Franklin "Frank" Drebin | Leslie Nielsen | TBA | |||
Jane Spencer-Drebin | Priscilla Presley | ||||
Franklin "Frank" Drebin, Jr. | Adam Hasart | Liam Neeson | |||
Det. Norberg | Peter Lupus | ||||
Det. Fred Nordberg | O. J. Simpson | ||||
Cpt. Ed Hocken | Alan North | George Kennedy | |||
Ted Olson | Ed Williams | ||||
Big Al | Ronald "Tiny Ron" Taylor | ||||
Johnny the Snitch | William Duell | ||||
Abraham Lincoln | Rex Hamilton | ||||
Vincent Ludwig | Ricardo Montalbán | ||||
Quentin Hapsburg | Robert Goulet | ||||
Rocco Dillon | Fred Ward | ||||
Papshmir | Raye Birk | Raye Birk | |||
"Weird Al" Yankovic | Himself |
Additional crew and production details
Title | Crew/Detail | ||||||
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Composer | Cinematographer | Editor(s) | Production companies |
Distributing company |
Running time | ||
Police Squad! | Ira Newborn | Sherman Kunkel | Tom Benko, and Malcolm Campbell |
Paramount Television | American Broadcasting Company, CBS Television Distribution |
144 minutes (24 mins/episodes) | |
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
Robert M. Stevens | Michael Jablow | Paramount Pictures Corp.[26] | Paramount | 85 minutes | ||
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear |
Christopher Greenbury & James R. Symons |
Paramount Pictures, Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker Productions, un film de David Zucker[27] |
Paramount Pictures Corporation | ||||
Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult |
James R. Symons | Paramount Pictures | 83 minutes | ||||
Untitled film | TBA | TBA | TBA | Paramount Pictures, Fuzzy Door Productions |
Paramount Pictures | TBA |
Reception
Box office performance
Film | US/Canada gross | International gross | Total gross |
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | $78,756,177[28] | $73,689,000[29] | $152,445,177 |
The Naked Gun 2+1⁄2: The Smell of Fear | $86,930,411[30] | $105,310,000[29][31] | $192,240,411 |
Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult | $51,132,598[32] | $81,273,000[29] | $132,405,598 |
Total | $216,819,186 | $260,272,000 | $477,091,186 |
Critical and public response
Title | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | CinemaScore[33] |
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Police Squad! | 90% (31 reviews)[34] | — | — |
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | 87% (54 reviews)[1] | 76 (13 reviews)[35] | A− |
The Naked Gun 2+1⁄2: The Smell of Fear | 57% (40 reviews)[2] | 65 (21 reviews)[36] | B+ |
Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult | 54% (35 reviews)[3] | 63 (21 reviews)[37] | B+ |
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External links
- The Naked Gun series at AllMovie
- The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! at IMDb
- The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! at AllMovie
- The Naked Gun 2+1⁄2: The Smell of Fear at IMDb
- The Naked Gun 2+1⁄2: The Smell of Fear at AllMovie
- Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult at IMDb
- Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult at AllMovie