Liam Neeson stars as Frank Drebin Jr in the new The Naked Gun film – and the first teaser trailer has gone down well.
When Liam Neeson first revealed that he was in line to head up a new take on The Naked Gun he seemed resigned to the fact that it could go badly, stating back in 2021 that “It’ll either finish my career or bring it in another direction. I honestly don’t know.”
Here in 2025, we’re not too far from finding out if that’s the case given that Neeson’s new spin on the beloved cop spoof series – made famous by the late Leslie Nielsen’s wonderful comic talents – is just a few months away. 2025’s The Naked Gun is headed to cinemas on August 1st, courtesy of Paramount.
The studio’s marketing team have even got in on the fun sense of faux doomed resignation (at least we hope its faux,) billing the upcoming movie as ‘the single most important #NakedGun movie since the other Naked Gun movies.”
Liam Neeson stars in the film as Detective Frank Drebin, with Paul Walter Hauser as his partner Ed. Kevin Durand is set to play the villain while Pamela Anderson and Danny Huston also have major roles. CCH Pounder, Cody Rhodes, Liza Koshy, and Eddie Yu co-star.
Within the short one minute teaser, there was one joke in here which made this writer laugh from somewhere deep within the belly region, so if the film can just keep up that ratio over its 95 minute runtime, that’s almost a hundred gold standard laughs you can look forward to. All along with the usual variety of giggles, chuckles and hoots (if you happen to be a hooter, that is).
Chip n Dale: Rescue Rangers writers Dan Gregor and Doug Mand are reuniting with that film’s director Akiva Schaffer on the film. Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins are producing the new film which is headed for an August 1st 2025 cinema release. Here’s the first trailer below.
And, finally, there’s an international trailer too, that has a slightly different ending…
