Akiva Schaffer wanted The Naked Gun to have a strong story
The Naked Gun director Akiva Schaffer wanted to focus on both plot and comedy during the making of the movie.
Akiva Schaffer wanted The Naked Gun to have a strong story.
The 47-year-old filmmaker has helmed the comedy reboot that stars Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson but explained that he didn't want laughs to come at the expense of the plot.
Asked how he and the crew developed the flick, Akiva told Collider: "That's a very good question. Because now it's been a couple of years since we started, we're iterating so fast and writing a whole first act that gets thrown away, and then the best jokes make their way into new jokes.
"When we were trying to figure it out, I would say we were operating on two tracks at once. One was just brainstorming jokes, set pieces that you don't even know how they'll fit in, but just identifying tropes.
"It was just going, 'Oh, when somebody breaks their cell phone because it's a burner, and now they can't get traced', that's an area where we could do."
The Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers director added: "So, there's that pile that's just like, 'God, it'd be so good to get any of that into this movie.'
"And then there's the other thing, which is just trying to find the story that will be the best version to make sure it can work and that it can stay interesting and that the jokes will work.
"I mean, we wrote thousands of jokes that didn't make it in, and we broke different stories that weren't the story ultimately."
