Podcast | Naked Gun 33 1/3 (1994) and Cast Away (2000)

Leslie Nielsen’s swansong as Frank Drebin in Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, and the long production of 2000’s Cast Away. Both stories told here.

The behind the scenes stories of two movies, starting with Naked Gun 33 1/3, a film that saw franchise director David Zucker opt to step back, and thirtysomething Peter Segal make his directorial debut. The problem? There was a comedy to make, and Segal was struggling to get a connection with his leading man, the late Leslie Nielsen.

2000’s Cast Away meanwhile would be a movie that contributed to health problems Tom Hanks has put up with since. It made a volleyball famous, and notably, it’s a film that took so long to make, that director Robert Zemeckis shot and released another movie entirely in the midst of Cast Away's production schedule.

Stories of both films are told in this episode…