The comic book franchise Grab it however you can returned to the big screen this summer, almost 40 years after the release of the first chapter of the saga. David Zucker, director of the first two films, had already given way to another filmmaker for the third film, which still had Leslie Nielsen in the cast, as it is contemporary.
This year the team The naked gun was completely renovated, with Akiva Schaffer in the direction and Liam Neeson in the lead role. But the original filmmaker doesn’t seem happy with how the film turned out.
“My brother Jerry and our partner Jim Abrahams “They started doing parody comedies 50 years ago and we created our own style, and we did it so well that it seems easy, obviously,” he said. David Zucker during a recent interview. “People started copying us, like Seth MacFarlane with the new The naked gun. “It didn’t quite hit the mark.”
Seth MacFarlaneknown for creating animated comedy series such as family man any The Cleveland Showwas the new person in charge of conceiving the story of Grab it however you canalthough there were later eight more people involved in the script.
Grab him any way you can, he did it all wrong
The sequel script Grab it however you can It wasn’t the only thing his former director criticized, who also attacked the film’s $42 million budget.
“You don’t have to spend a lot of money on comedies, and one of our rules has to do with technical implementation,” said David Zucker. “Big budgets and comedy are opposites, and in the new The naked weapon You can see that they spent a lot of money on scenes full of technical dynamism while They tried to copy our style”.
“Now everyone is in it for the moneyand that seems to be the only reason they wanted to make a new movie Grab it however you can”, he stated.
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