The bare weapon Was considered a Bellwether for the livelihood of studio comedies in the post-pandemic era, and last weekend the comedy restarted its endurance. The feature staged by Akiva Schaffer and Liam Neeson only dropped 50 percent in the second year, with the domestic total of 33 million US dollars and its global train increased to 56.4 million US dollars.
The producers Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins hope The bare weapon is the first of a new wave of comedies that find theater audience.
Outside of Naked gunThe Fuzzy door of MacFarlane and Huggins has a varied table that from a Peacock series on the Basi The burbies To a Doc on Carl Sagan for MacFarlanes Frank Sinatra Tribute Album Lower life: the lost Sinatra. MacFarlane says: “To put it this way: You can create spark plugs and breakfast flakes at the same time, and if there is a market for both, why not?”
MacFarlane and Huggins speak to Th. About the “double -talented sword” of test comedies, from which Hollywood lessons should Naked gunPerformance and continuation plans.
What was the answer to Naked weapon 'S performance?
Erica Huggins I have received so many incoming calls and texts and emails from well-wishers, and that doesn't always happen. ((Laughs.) For the first time, they feel the good will of every single producer, all agencies, of actors, of people who only want comedy.
Seth MacFarlane I just got a text from a retirement Family facilities Writer who tells you how long the show was in the air. “A retirement Family facilities Writer. “He said he was in a hairdresser in Amherst, Massachusetts. The bare weapon.
If this is not a glowing rating, I don't know what it is. What was the biggest hurdle to make this film greenish?
Huggins The biggest thing to overcome was the question: “Will a film like this – a parodity film that we have not seen for a decade – will not work for today's audience?” Then the next question always became: “Who is the audience? Is it just nostalgia? Is it the older amount? How do we get the younger amount?” And then there was always a budget. The other major role that had to be overcome was that we needed dramatic actors to play the comedy and play it.
How did you convince the studio that Liam Neeson was the right choice?
Macarlane I don't know we've ever done it. After all, they are only fed up with us. There have been other iterations of this franchise company over the years and often it is a comedian and usually a great comedian who is announced as a lead. One of the basic edicts of the [original Naked Gun creators] You were Sugar Brothers against the comedy. They occupy people like Robert Stack, Peter Graves and Leslie Nielsen. There were no comics, and it just worked every time they took care of it.
In the opening weekend, almost half of the audience was in 18 to 34 demo. What do you make of it?
Huggins All previous Naked weapons were pg-13. Akiva was extremely aware of what that did as a child. It gave him access, although it was still a bit risky.
Macarlane Younger audience does not really have the same comedy filmography, which is connected with their experience with growing up. We had films like Airplanes, trains and automobiles And Caddyshack. In the 90s they had comedies like Home alone and in the early 2000s 40-year-old virgin And Beaten. It has been a while since a generation had a comedy or a number of comedies that defined it for decade.
Marketing for this film was leaning In reality that there were no broad comedies in the cinemas. Why did that play well?
Macarlane It was an easy choice for the studio to simply interfere, because there has been no real, hard comedy for a long time. In the 80s they had shows like Cheek These were comedies. They had jokes, they had laughter, they were true comedies that would also be recognized during the price shifting season. You no longer see that. [Today] You mainly see dramas with a hint of jokes in comedy categories. I think it was pretty easy for the studio to take this reality and say: “Hey, we know what you are looking for. There is some water in the desert here.”
How important is testing the audience when it comes to publishing a comedy For modern audience?
Macarlane Testing is such a double -edged sword. It is extremely valuable how it is extremely valuable to make your stand-up set into a workshop, know which jokes work and what not, and different parts of the country and see how different the audience reacts. The only disadvantage is some of the things that stick in the long run, that's the stuff that is a bit stranger, so it doesn't really end up.
Huggins The things that the audience love the most and hates are also the things that are most talked about. You have to be careful when you cut it off because you get a few cards that say it insulted people. You want to try to find a balance.
The story for comedies and film musicals is that these two genres have to constantly prove themselves every time they go to a theater.
Macarlane It's safe!
Did you feel this pressure?
Huggins The question was: “Will a comedy work in the theaters?” Because you can access Netflix so easily. All comedies now seem to collect themselves in streaming, and so it is only a different experience than laughing in a lot. I find [it’s about] Teaching the audience again to buy a ticket, go to a full theater and see a funny film.
Macarlane All great comedies that we consider as a kind of yardstick in our culture and in our own lives are all theatrical. I can't really imagine a single streaming comedy in which the zeitgeist has this kind of collective support. Maybe you are out there and I don't know her. Streaming comedies, some of them, of course, very well, just come and go. There is a tendency to consider the theater as something that is on the way out, but I really think this is a mistake.
What lessons should Hollywood lose weight from the performance of? Naked gun?
Macarlane Take risks. Make films that don't just restart – wait a second. The lesson is that people want something outside the usual tariff. At this point we are so convinced with superhero films. It's like Bill Murray in Groundhog DayWhen he wakes up that morning, says: “Everything else is good.” People want a little more variety on their plate.
The Fuzzy door has a varied plate -from a Pfau series is based on The burbies To a document on Carl Sagan – what do studios and streams say that they are currently buying?
Huggins I haven't seen much interest in buying a hard comedy. It is more difficult to understand what that is when you haven't done it. People want something that feels original, and then they want something everyone loves. It's about good material, regardless of the genre. We bet on our taste.
Macarlane Taste is everything. There is so much examination of marketing data that, if it were worth a damn value, would be a big hit. They look at someone like Dana Walden, who has only a really good taste and is still successful and is successful and successful. Ultimately, you have called this thing as a brain, and if you operate a production company or a studio, it is for you to use this brain and make decisions on the basis of things that you think you are of quality or not. Marketing data are damn. People don't want a genre until they do it.
There were conversations about A Naked gun Consequence?
Huggins Absolutely. We now have enough conversations among the filmmakers and certainly with Pam [Anderson] And also Liam, when we have the film in the Blue Sky version of what was sold, which could happen next, yes, we thought about where it could go and what it could be. Akiva and Dan and Doug, our authors, we all talk about it.