Liam Neeson takes the reins from Leslie Nielsen in 2025’s The Bare Gun reboot, and the teaser trailer guarantees that the Taken star is right here for an outrageously good time.
The movie, directed by Akiva Schaffer (Popstar: By no means Cease By no means Stopping) and produced by Seth MacFarlane, stars Neeson as Lt. Frank Drebin Jr., who’s following in his father’s footsteps and main Police Squad.
The Bare Gun‘s teaser trailer opens with a financial institution theft. Dastardly criminals maintain the financial institution hostage whereas legislation enforcement waits exterior. But in some way, a small schoolgirl manages to slide previous the barricades and make it into the crime scene.
Because it seems, the schoolgirl is not any schoolgirl in any respect. She rips off her face masks (and grows a number of ft) so as to remodel into Frank, who proceeds to wreak havoc within the financial institution. In yet one more plot twist, Frank’s lollipop is not any run-of-the-mill sucker both: It is a weapon, excellent for stabbing and gorgeous! Neeson makes lollipop legislation enforcement look simple, even in a too-small schoolgirl uniform.
The remainder of the teaser contains a gag the place all the present Police Squad members pay tribute to their fathers, from Nielsen’s Lt. Drebin to George Kennedy’s Capt. Hocken. Try the complete trailer above, and keep tuned till the tip for a fourth-wall break about OJ Simpson’s function as Det. Nordberg.
The Bare Gun additionally stars Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, CCH Pounder, Kevin Durand, Cody Rhodes, Liza Koshy, Eddie Yu, and Danny Huston.
The Bare Gun hits theaters Aug. 1.
