– TV forerunner of the Naked Gun films – the cop shows being parodied were already drifting out of fashion. Akiva Schaffer, director and co-writer of the first Naked Gun film for more than 30 years, has taken some of those arguments on board. The Naked Gun was a joke-delivery system whose allusions to Cannon and The Streets of San Francisco were mere decoration. The Naked Gun: Eddie Yu as Detective Park, Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr and Paul Walter Hauser as Ed Hocken Jr. [ Liam Neeson: From Paisley-loving Catholic boy to actor, then action man, now comedy starOpens in new window ]Neeson himself is more of a quandary.
