Liam Neeson already has been chaining action thrillers for a few years each more deficient trying to imitate the success of ‘Revenge’ with a rather questionable success. But no one doubts that he is a great actor whose career has taken a somewhat strange turn at the end, and that he has prestige in abundance (not in vain was he the protagonist of ‘Schindler’s List’ and one of the most remembered characters of ‘Gangs of New York’, for example). Now, all that prestige and rudeness will crystallize in an unexpected project: ‘Grab it as you can’.
The sunsets, the walks on the beach, the traffic lights
It’s hard to believe, but before ‘Land As You Can’, the film that landed him the role in ‘Police Squad’ and later in its film adaptation, ‘Grab It As You Can’, Leslie Nielsen was a serious actor, regular secondary of series like ‘Colombo’ or ‘Murder Wrote’ and films like ‘Creepshow’, ‘The Poseidon Adventure’ or ‘Forbidden Planet’. It was that serious countenance and that dignified attitude the one that gave Frank Drebin and his characters the humor they needed.
And for that, set to resurrect the saga and the absurd humor, maybe no one better than Liam Neeson, to which we automatically join with a dignity and rudeness that are very easily parodied. Now we have learned that the new sequel to ‘Grab it any way you can’ already has a director and screenwriters. It will be Akiva Schafer (member of The Lonely Island and director of ‘Chip and Chop’) the one in charge of getting behind the camerasand will be very well accompanied in the script.
Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, who did ‘Chip and Chop’ themselves or episodes of the fabulous ‘Crazy ex Girlfriend’ and ‘How I met your mother’ will be in charge of writing a script in which, it is assumed, Liam Neeson to play Frank Drebin’s son. We will have to wait to see bumps, parodies and exacerbated comedy. Counting the hours.