\u2018Naked Gun\u2019 reboot set for 2025, with Liam Neeson to star<\/p>\n
NEW YORK<\/strong> (AP)\u2014Lt. Frank Drebin is back on the case. Paramount Pictures is moving ahead with a long-gestating remake of \u201cNaked Gun,\u201d the studio announced Wednesday. Liam Neeson will star as the bumbling police detective Debin in the role made famous by Leslie Nielsen. Akiva Schaffer (\u201cHot Rod,\u201d \u201cPop Star: Never Stop Stopping\u201d) will direct the film, set for release in July 2025. The script is by Dan Gregor, Doug Man and Schaffer, who collaborated on 2022\u2019s \u201cChip \u2018N Dale: Rescue Rangers.\u201d The \u201cNaked Gun\u201d films, derived from the TV series \u201cPolice Squad!\u201d, were high-water marks for slapstick comedy. They ran over six years: \u201cThe Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad\u201d (1988), \u201cThe Naked Gun 2 1\/2: The Smell of Fear\u201d (1991) and \u201cNaked Gun 33 1\/3: The Final Insult\u201d (1994).<\/p>\n \u2018Euphoria\u2019 star Hunter Schafer among protesters arrested during Biden\u2019s appearance on \u2018Late Night\u2019<\/p>\n NEW YORK<\/strong> (AP)\u2014Actor Hunter Schafer was among dozens of war protesters arrested at NBC\u2019s headquarters in Manhattan during President Joe Biden\u2019s appearance on \u201cLate Night with Seth Myers\u201d earlier this week, organizers confirmed Wednesday. The 25-year-old \u201cEuphoria\u201d star was part of a group of more than 100 demonstrators who packed the lobby at 30 Rockefeller Plaza on Monday afternoon to call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, said the group Jewish Voice for Peace. Schafer and other protesters wore black shirts reading, \u201cCeasefire Now\u201d and \u201cNot in Our Name\u201d while chanting \u201cLet Gaza Live\u201d and other slogans as Biden\u2019s motorcade pulled into the area, according to videos and photos of the event.<\/p>\n Ryan Gosling, Billie Eilish, Jon Batiste set to perform at the Oscars<\/p>\n The Oscars just got an infusion of Kenergy. Ryan Gosling will sing the pop power ballad \u201c I\u2019m Just Ken \u201c at the show on March 10, the show\u2019s producers announced Wednesday. Others set to perform their nominated original songs include Billie Eilish and Finneas O\u2019Connell, Jon Batiste, Scott George and the Osage Singers and Becky G. Gosling is also nominated for best supporting actor that evening. While in character as Ken in a promo for the show with Jimmy Kimmel, he shrugged that he\u2019s not going to win. In fairness, even if it was a joke, he might not be wrong: His fellow nominee Robert Downey Jr. has been sweeping the season. \u201cI\u2019m Just Ken,\u201d written by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, still has a chance, however, even if the other \u201cBarbie\u201d song, Eilish and Finneas\u2019s soulful \u201cWhat Was I Made For\u201d seems to be the clear awards favorite to date, having already won a Grammy. But the Ken ballad is also the one everyone has wanted to see on the Oscars telecast, which will mark Gosling\u2019s first time performing at the show. (AP)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2018Naked Gun\u2019 reboot set for 2025, with Liam Neeson to star NEW YORK (AP)\u2014Lt. Frank…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}