“Take It As You Can” prepares a reboot that seeks to cast Liam Neeson as the protagonist

Leslie Nielsen spent the 1980s making us laugh. She started the decade with “Land as you can!”, A comic gem that would start a series of cinematic parodies that they ended up constituting a genre in themselves, and continued with several films that inherit that humor. As said first film, one of the most appreciated by critics, none; but then came the trilogy that began with “Take it as you can”continuation of “Police Squad”, a series that expresses the funniest side of police procedures.

Almost three decades after “Grab It Any Way You Can” 33 1/3. The final insult ‘, closing of the saga, Paramount Pictures is trying to revive it with a reboot that would already be in preparation. Deadline says this exclusively, ensuring that said studio would be so immersed in the aforementioned project that it has already signed Akiva Schaffer as director. This comedy director, screenwriter for the American program “Saturday Night Live” and most recently director of “Chip and Chop: The Rescue Guardians”, He would lead a project that still does not have the green light because he is waiting to close the deal with his ideal star: Liam Neeson.

Neeson, who has been a few years cultivating a curious and much-loved career as a quirky action hero, achieved resounding success with ‘Revenge’, a saga that started this actor’s peculiar love affair with the genre. Now Paramount is clear that it would be ideal to conduct a new version of “Take It As You Can” which plot details have not yet surfaced. What is rumored is that Neeson could play Detective Frank Drebin’s son instead of taking on the role that Nielsen popularized..

Culmen of the police parody

‘Grab it as you can’ was born from the hand of a first film based on the 1982 series ‘Police Squad’, an ABC proposal that was canceled after six episodes aired. The small screen failed to appreciate the potential of a seed that flourished in cinema with a first film that was hugely successful and managed to revive Leslie Nielsen’s career. Three films made disastrous detective Frank Drebin a cartoon icon, a character who wanted to be saved from Nielsen’s death in 2010. Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, writers of “Chip and Chop: The Rescue Guardians”, would be in charge of writing the script for a tape that must first be secured to Neeson. Fingers crossed.