Warning: spoilers below for “The Naked Gun.” Leslie Nielsen would be proud. Director Akiva Schaffer, 47, has revealed that he “threatened to quit” the “Naked Gun” reboot to save a scene that the movie ...

In particular, his work on The Naked Gun and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping shows that Schaffer has a unique comedic vision unlike any other filmmaker. His natural flair for the genre makes him ...

There’s probably nobody better to direct and write a movie like The Naked Gun reboot than Akiva Schaffer. He has a resume full of brilliant, dumb, joke-a-minute work. Together with Andy Samberg and ...

Akiva Schaffer on why the bonkers snowman scene was important, fighting it being cut from the movie, and how he was supposed ...

Writer-director Akiva Schaffer initially thought a reboot of The Naked Gun was blasphemous until he realized the full ...

Plus, how we secured that cameo from two OG franchise stars, and how the Super Mario Bros. theme was once part of Anderson's ...

Liam Neeson lives up to Leslie Nielsen's legacy in 'The Naked Gun,' a laugh-a-minute legacy sequel that proves comedies ...

The Naked Gun reboot wouldn't be the same without the snowman sequence, one of the silliest and funniest parts of the movie. However, the scene was "polarizing" for some during the making of the film, ...

One of the things Schaffer loves about the first “Naked Gun” is how, despite the silliness, it is largely a straightforward ...

Few understood just how brilliant the original "Naked Gun" films were quite like Schaffer, which is why he thought a reboot was a fool's errand until Neeson's name was mentioned.

Akiva Schaffer has revitalized the comedy genre with his star-studded reboot of “The Naked Gun,” our columnist says. But, the ...

The Naked Gun co-writer/director Akiva Schaffer knew he struck gold with the wild snowman montage in his movie starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson. But he had to put his entire job on the line to ...