Akiva Schaffer’s naked weapon director has almost stopped keeping the scene’s most shocked scene

When it comes to The naked gun Restive, there is a scene that is one of the strangest and most fun of the entire film, and almost did not make the cut.

Director and co-writer Akiva Schaffer He revealed that the assembly of fans’ favorite snowmen was an important point of dispute during production. He had to do everything to keep him inside, even threatening to get away from the project.

The characteristic scene Liam Neeson Like Frank Drebin Jr. Pamela Anderson While Beth heads to a holiday in snow, where they use a book of spells to give life to a snowman. It takes place in an absurd 1980s love frame that in the end turns into a complete horror territory, attracting inspiration from the cult film Jack Frost (1998). It is bizarre, it is unexpected and is absolutely fun.

But not everyone saw him in this way at the beginning.

“He was polarizing in scripts readings,” Schaffer shared on Toolkit director podcast. “People who really respect, I like it Andy SambergWhen he read it for me, he was like “Snowman is the best. Don’t let him cut it,” knowing that it would be cut. It makes sense once you see the film, but at some point I had to threaten to stop. “

Schaffer was not blind at risk. It has been ensured that the scene could be removed without breaking the structure of history and even thought of bringing the snowman back for a later gag that has never been shot. But once the audience has seen it, the reaction earned everything.

From the very first tests of the tests, Schaffer said: “It was the number one scene in the film”.

As for the people who rejected, they arrived in style. “The people who really fought me after eating a lot of crow without asking him. I tried to leave them out and go,” okay “, but they were like” no, friend, we made a mistake, “he said.

The Snowman Scene is a foolish return to the classic assembly of the love of the original 1988 with Leslie Nielsen AND Priscilla Presley. It is a choice deliberated by Schaffer and Co-Scriptors Dan Gregor AND Doug Mand To be sure The naked gun The restart stands alone.

“No offense for others restarted and sequel to Redos and Legacy out there, but many of them are thus blocked in returning to return the things they did the original,” said Schaffer.

“You look at them and you are happy, but it’s like empty calories, and when it is done, you can barely remember that you saw it because, at least my theory, it’s that they are not really a new movie. I am a fan fiction of the old film.”

Schaffer was oscillating for something original in the chaos and that wild snow scene shows that he made his fruit.

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