Liam Neeson’s The Bare Gun Reboot Will get New Launch Date

Paramount Photos’ remake of The Bare Gun has been pushed again by the studios. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the reboot starring Liam Neeson as Detective Frank Drebin, the position originated by the late Leslie Neilsen within the 1988 film, can be launched Aug. 1, 2025. The movie initially had a July 18, 2025, launch date. The primary Bare Gun film, Bare Gun: From the Recordsdata of Police Squad! spawned two sequels, 1991’s Bare Gun 2 1/2: The Odor of Concern and Bare Gun: 33 1/3: The Remaining Insult from 1994.

Headed up by director Akiva Schaffer (Popstar: By no means Cease By no means Stopping), the yet-untitled Bare Gun remake is being produced by Seth MacFarlane (Household Man, The Orville) and Erica Huggins (Ted, the TV sequence). Along with Neeson, the film will star Paul Walter Hauser (Inside Out 2) and Pamela Anderson (Baywatch).

Earlier this 12 months, it was introduced that Danny Huston, finest identified for his position as a villain within the Yellowstone sequence, scored a component in The Bare Gun reboot. The WWE’s Cody Rhodes additionally formally joined the film’s solid, in a cameo efficiency, in addition to Busta Rhymes, Liza Koshy and CCH Pounder.

Liam Neeson Mentioned He Was “Nervous” About Taking up the Function

In an interview with Collider, Neeson talked in regards to the reboot. “Effectively, clearly, the script has obtained to be humorous and have a type of a theme, a type of a narrative, albeit fairly free, going via the script quite than only a sequence of gags, which may get boring very, in a short time,” He mentioned. He added he was “honored” to be provided the a part of Frank Drebin and “just a little bit nervous about it.”

Taking the earlier July 18, 2025, launch date as soon as held by the Bare Gun film, can be Paramount’s untitled Smurfs animated musical movie, which had initially been scheduled for a Valentine’s Day 2025 launch date. That film’s solid contains Rihanna, Nick Offerman, Natasha Lyonne, Nick Kroll, James Corden, Octavia Spencer, Hannah Waddingham, Sandra Oh and Kurt Russell.

The New Bare Gun Film Reunites Seth MacFarlane and Liam Neeson

The Bare Gun film isn’t the primary time Neeson has labored with MacFarlane. Neeson starred in 2014’s A Million Methods to Die within the West, written and directed by MacFarlane. He additionally guest-starred on MacFarlane’s sci-fi sequence The Orville within the episode “If the Stars Ought to Seem” as Jahavus Dorahl.

Neeson can be engaged on the film 4 Youngsters Stroll Right into a Financial institution, wherein he’ll play a former financial institution robber who’s pressured by his gang to finish one final heist. The catch is his plan is overheard by his granddaughter, Paige (Talia Ryder), who decides she and her three buddies need to attempt to rob the identical financial institution themselves the day earlier than, so her grandfather doesn’t should do it.

4 Youngsters Stroll Right into a Financial institution is predicated on Black Masks Studios’ comedian of the identical title. Along with Neeson and Ryder, the film may even star Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place), Whitney Peak (Gossip Woman), Jack Dylan Grazer (Shazam!), and newcomer Deacon Phillippe, who’s the son of actors Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon.

No launch date has been introduced for 4 Youngsters Stroll Right into a Financial institution.

Supply: The Hollywood Reporter