FROM THE NEWS ARCHIVES OF CINEMA CONFIDENTIAL
Nielsen on "Naked Gun 4"
POSTED
ON
10/23/03 AT 8:00 A.M.
BY JUSTIN HALL
Moviehole (http://www.moviehole.net) recently talked to Leslie Nielsen, who revealed that doing a "Naked Gun 4" may be difficult...without O.J. Q.David mentioned that there might be a fourth Naked Gun if they can persuade the
humourless folks at Paramount to do it. Would you want to do it?
A.I'd keep my fingers crossed. I would do it, are you kidding? I mean, it's a
special kind of humour and the essence of the humour is that they never try to tell
the audience what's funny. But without ---
Q.O.J.?
A. O.J. Well, it never crossed my mind that that would have made any difference, not
to say that he wasn't very heavy support for the film; he was a very big athlete and
a big star. Very enthusiastic and very easy and wonderful to work with. But it may
be that that coloured part of their consideration in choosing to not give it a run,
but people have come in even after and wanted to buy the property. Paramount could
have sold the property, but it's in the archives, and you don't sell things if
you're not going to use them yourself, because if they get sold and then become big
hits, or big money maker, then somebody is responsible.

