Priscilla Presley has shared her scepticism in regards to the forthcoming Naked Gun reboot starring Liam Neeson.
Presley, who starred within the trilogy of comedy police-spoofs as Jane Spencer-Drebin, the spouse of the late Leslie Nielsen’s hapless cop Frank Drebin, shared her ideas on the reboot with NME.
“It was such a great success and I’m going to leave it as that,” Presley stated of the unique movie. “It’s hard to believe anyone else could be Frank Drabin and play that role.”
Regarding the reboot, set to be directed by The Lonely Island member Akiva Schaffer, Presley added: “I believe that Liam Neeson – I don’t know if he has a way of humour, I heard he did – however I can’t put the 2 collectively.
“I don’t want to be judgemental and I wish them luck with it.”
Meanwhile, Sofia Coppola is ready to direct a biopic about Priscilla Presley for A24.
The Virgin Suicides filmmaker will write and direct Priscilla for the indie studio, casting Euphoria star Jacob Elordi as Elvis and Cailee Spaeny as his spouse Priscilla.
The movie can be based mostly on Priscilla’s 1985 memoir Elvis And Me, which grew to become a New York Times bestseller and guarantees an “intimate account of her life with Elvis” in line with Deadline.
In a four-star overview of Baz Luhrmann’s current biopic Elvis, NME described the movie as “a big-screen epic we can’t help falling in love with”.
“Though it plays like a glitzy musical in the mould of Bohemian Rhapsody, Elvis also works as a much-needed lesson about America’s cultural history,” the overview added.