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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

When it comes to The Naked Gun reboot, there’s one scene that’s one of the weirdest and funniest in the entire movie, and it ...

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 ...