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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) Detective Frank Drebin (
Leslie Nielsen) tries to uncover a plot to assassinate
Queen Elizabeth II, who is on an official visit to the United States. The main suspect is Vincent Ludwig, a rich businessman (
Ricardo Montalbán), who uses a hypnotic device to turn others into murderers. On the case, Drebin falls in love with Ludwig's assistant, Jane Spencer (
Priscilla Presley). She knows nothing about Ludwig's plot, and after the pair spends the night together, Jane helps with Frank's investigation. As with previous ZAZ spoof comedies, the plot was mostly culled from a more serious film, in this case
Telefon. The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) Frank discovers that Jane's new boyfriend, Quentin Hapsburg (
Robert Goulet), is involved in an evil plan to kidnap Dr. Albert S. Meinheimer (
Richard Griffiths), a scientist whom President
George H. W. Bush (John Roarke) has chosen to determine a new national energy policy. Hapsburg plans to kidnap the real Dr. Meinheimer and replace him with a lookalike named Earl Hacker (also portrayed by Griffiths) who will endorse an energy policy according to the dictates of the energy lobby.
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994) In the third film of the series, Frank is married to Jane, and he has retired from Police Squad. The film introduces the criminal Rocco Dillon (
Fred Ward), who is stuck in prison. He is contacted by someone called Papshmir to be given a target for a bombing. Frank is pulled out of
retirement. He goes undercover pretending to be a prisoner named "Nick 'the Slasher' McGurk Jr., III" at the jail where Dillon is being held, and they break out of jail. Outside they are escorted by Dillon's gangster mother (
Kathleen Freeman) to his country retreat, where Frank also meets Rocco's voluptuous
moll (
Anna Nicole Smith). The gang plots to blow up the
Academy Awards. When Jane arrives looking for Frank, she is taken hostage.
The Naked Gun (2025) After years of aborted attempts at a new film, a sequel was greenlit in 2022. Directed by
Akiva Schaffer and written by Schaffer, Dan Gregor, and Doug Mand, the film stars
Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr. Principal photography was originally tentatively scheduled for summer 2023. Principal photography ran from May to June 2024 in
Atlanta, Georgia. The film was released on August 1, 2025.
Future In August 2025, producer Erica Huggins said in an interview that discussions about a sequel to the 2025 film were ongoing between the actors, writers and producers. ==Video games==