Long before you do 2025 “The naked gun” Reboot, author/director Akiva Schaffer Be student in the original forgery films, “Airplane!” (1980), “Top Secret” (1984) and “The naked gun“(1988). There were rules for these ZAZ films (the producing directing trio of Jim Abrahams, David and Jerry Zucker), one of whom thrown classically trained dramatic actor-but spectacle was not the only thing they played straight.
“The whole thing they invented with” aircraft ” – I might be wrong, maybe someone did it before them – but what Zaz did that was so special was all the dramatic actors and the dramatic story and then treated everything – wardrobe, lighting, sets – like the dramatic version,” Schaffer said. “That’s the part I definitely brought me into this.”
When Schaffer was on this week’s episode of filmmaker Toolkit Podcasthe declared how inclined into gravitas (and personality) of Liam NeesonSeemingly unaware of the absurdity of what he said or did, was crucial to “the naked gun” humor. But part of what sold these jokes and made it even more fun is that the contrast between the absurdity and serious conceptions was reinforced by the genre filmmaker who founded the audience in a non-comedy film world.
“You want someone to be able to walk in the room and if they didn’t see a joke, think you are watching a serious movie,” Schaffer said. “And then when the joke will be” what the hell? “It is the composition of the two, it is the whole thing that made all these counterfeits so good;
The original “Police Squad!” TV Series, which Graw into “The Naked Gun” Movies, Was Drawing From Genre Filmmaking Conventions From a Recent Past That 1980s TV Audience WOULD BE FAMILIAR WITH, SUCH AS 1950S AND ’60S COP SHOWS (MOST NOTALLY THE LEAG HAP film Noirs. And while Schaffer took advantage of some of these traditions, especially the Noirs of the 40s as “double damages”, he looked to update these references to the audience.
“It’s been 30 years since ‘Naked Gun’ came out, and there is all that newer ‘(James) Bond’ and ‘Mission: Impossible’ films. We talked about ‘Jack Reachers’,’ John Wicks’, said Jason Statham films, TV programs like ‘CSI,’ and then all of the Movies’, ‘the roof’, the roof ‘, the roof’, the roof’s’, the roof ‘, the roof’, the roof, ‘ Go back and watch action movies and even noir movies. “
The key to Schaffer’s movie-and where he undoubtedly pressed even further than Zaz when it comes to “playing the real”-being to build a team of collaborators who were well-rewritten to make the kind of films he falsified.
Production designer Bill Brzeski designed the sets for several “Fast & Furious” films, together with “Aquaman” and “Iron Man 3”, in addition to comedies as “The Hangover.” For “Naked Gun” Police’s head office, Brzeski brought inspiration from Neo-Noirers as “SE7”, while leaving his TV background on how to drive quickly and cheaply to match comedy (not action).
For the music, Schaffer shot the moon by following composer Lorne Balfe, who had made one of the comedy’s biggest references, “Mission: Impossible – Fallout”, along with several other major franchise films such as “Black Widow.”
“He made the last three” Mission: Impossible “movies, and we try to make it sound like a Chris Nolan movie meets a” Mission: Impossible “movie,” Schaffer said. “And then in other times meet Old Noir,” Chinatown “or” La Confidential, “as (composer) Jerry Goldsmith, or a 90’s Michael Douglas Sex thriller, where it is dangerous, but playful and sexy.”
Schaffer, who has produced its fair part of music as a member of The lonely islandTakes a huge amount of pride in convincing Balfe to make his comedy and the resulting soundtrack, as the director said that will come out soon.
“I listened to (the soundtrack) the other day just to make sure it was correct and (if you played) This music you can give some hundred guesses what movie it comes from and they will never guess,” Schaffer said. “And we have to make a real orchestra, things you can’t do in every movie nowadays.”
The action in “The Naked Gun” is both legit and often practical, after withdrawing from DNA from Neeson’s “roofs” films of hiring stunt coordinator Mark Vanselow, who has worked with the actor for several years, including as his stunt dubble.
For the visual language and appearance of the film, Schaffer turned to a long -term partner, Brandon Trost (“Bros”, “This is the end”, “Barry”, “Can you ever forgive me?”), Who is Cinematographer Comedy Director Employer when they do not want their film to look like (light) high key lit
“What I and Brannstrost Where tried was a sweet place in the 90s (action movies), Schaffer said. ” They are shot at 35 mm (movie stock). They look like big, huge action movies today, but you couldn’t color them with computers yet, and so the atmosphere in the air, which literally means the smoke of the atmosphere, you would not be able to crush the black so far that it disappears. “
It is a feeling that Schaffer not only wanted to refer, but a structure that was perfect for his “naked gun.” During the pre-production, he would constantly print photos for all his department heads for the late 1980s by Tony Scott, such as “Top Gun”, along with films such as “Beverly Hills Cop” and “True Romance”, which captured what he was aiming for.
Storywise referred Schaffer strongly newer films in James Bond and “Mission: Impossible” franchise, “Casino Royale” and “Fallout” were two of the big ones, but visually these newer franchise films are not right.
“But this look in the 90s is where I was” God, it feels so good, “Schaffer said.” For Bond, it was “Tomorrow Never dies” (1997), Pierce Brosnan – the middle of his driving (like James Bond) where the film took this hope forward at a movie level. It still looks so good of today’s standard, but it is something where you can say it was not done today, and it has this really comforting, fantastic look. “
Preferring that the “comfort” of the 90s in front of a modern look was something that Schaffer and Trost had to keep an eye on during the post-production, where digital color classification tools can give a sharpness.
“It was interesting color time for it (the structure of the 90s) because we had the ability to go some slicker, and I would go, ‘no, no, no, no, no. It is too neat,” Schaffer said.
An edition of Paramount Pictures, “The Naked Gun” is now in theaters.
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