“The Naked Gun” is, depending on my mood, probably my favorite movie of all time. I’ve been able to quote every line since I was about ten, long before I understood the “pap smear” or “nice beaver!” jokes (I just thought it was funny she had a huge stuffed beaver). Imagine my surprise, then, when I learned that the most epic trilogy in cinematic history almost spawned its own slapstick-filled video game, featuring the unmistakable deadpan of Leslie Neilsen:
“We signed up Leslie Nielsen and even paid him. We managed to get the license for the game which was not an easy thing for a developer but the deal had a time limit: we had to sign up a Publisher to put the game out by a certain date or we had to hand back the license,..”
Leslie Nielsen, then, would do the voice-over of the main character, and, from what we’ve been told, it was to be filled with those slapstick and visual gags that made David Zucker’s films so unique.
Meanwhile, in a better dimension, drunk Dan is yelling at his friends for not realizing how brilliant the Naked Gun video game is:
All I’m saying is, it’sss just a really underappreciated video game. I juss feel like these games nowadaysre too afraid to just write actual enemies… what happened to that? It’s a losst art. And don’t get me wrong, I love theseee Adult Swim games, but sometimes you just want to play a game that’s got a buncha wacky, straightforward enemies and bosses n stuff, not a bunch a puzzles n save statez nnn…whasss so hard aboutt thatd??
(via Collegehumor)
