EXCLUSIVE: Danny Huston (The Useless Don’t Harm) has signed on to star alongside Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser and Kevin Durand within the untitled Bare Gun reboot from Paramount Footage.
Particulars as to the movie’s plot, in addition to Huston’s position in it, are underneath wraps. However Neeson will play Detective Frank Drebin, as beforehand introduced, with Hauser as his companion Ed. It’s not but clear who Anderson might be taking part in, although it’s understood that Durand might be taking over one of many movie’s villain roles.
Akiva Schaffer is directing and exec producing the comedy, slated for launch on July 18, 2025. Dan Gregor and Doug Mand wrote the draft script together with Schaffer. Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins are producing through Fuzzy Door, with Daniel M. Stillman additionally serving as EP.
Recognized for his or her absurd eventualities and slapstick humor, previous Bare Gun movies centered on the misadventures of Drebin, the clueless and bumbling police detective performed by Leslie Nielsen, who additionally starred in Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker’s short-lived sequence Police Squad!. Grossing over $216M throughout three movies, the movie franchise launched with 1988’s The Bare Gun: From the Information of Police Squad!, with sequels The Bare Gun 2½: The Scent of Worry and Bare Gun 33⅓: The Last Insult following in 1991 and 1994, respectively.
Recognized for roles in movies like Surprise Girl, 21 Grams and The Aviator, in addition to sequence like Paramount+’s Yellowstone, Huston will subsequent be seen in Viggo Mortensen’s Western The Useless Don’t Harm, out through Shout! Studios on Could thirty first; Lionsgate’s The Crow, out August 23; and Kevin Costner’s Warner Bros Civil Conflict epic Horizon: An American Saga, which unspools in two components on June 28 and August 16.
The actor is repped by Untitled Leisure, UTA, Myman Greenspan Fox, and Julian Belfrage Associates in London.