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Warning: spoilers below for “The Naked Gun.” Leslie Nielsen would be proud. Director Akiva Schaffer, 47, has revealed that he ...
Writer-director Akiva Schaffer initially thought a reboot of The Naked Gun was blasphemous until he realized the full ...
Plus, how we secured that cameo from two OG franchise stars, and how the Super Mario Bros. theme was once part of Anderson's ...
Akiva Schaffer has revitalized the comedy genre with his star-studded reboot of “The Naked Gun,” our columnist says. But, the ...
Akiva Schaffer on why the bonkers snowman scene was important, fighting it being cut from the movie, and how he was supposed ...
There’s probably nobody better to direct and write a movie like The Naked Gun reboot than Akiva Schaffer. He has a resume ...
The Naked Gun, now in theaters, has a lot riding on its shoulders, including the future of a franchise and theatrical ...
Few understood just how brilliant the original "Naked Gun" films were quite like Schaffer, which is why he thought a reboot ...
When Lonely Island veteran Akiva Schaffer took over The Naked Gun — and set out to prove, with his Liam Neeson-led reboot, ...
One of the things Schaffer loves about the first “Naked Gun” is how, despite the silliness, it is largely a straightforward ...
In the early 1980s, Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker pioneered a niche of slapstick- and wordplay-heavy spoof ...
The co-writer/director says friends like Andy Samberg told him, "Do not let them cut it." The Naked Gun co-writer/director ...