David Zucker

Date of Birth

1947-10-16

Place of Birth

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Known for

The Kentucky Fried Movie, BASEketball, Top Secret!, Scary Movie 4, Scary Movie 5

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JoBlo Originals

Remember High School High? It’s the Best David Zucker Movie You Never Saw

Posted 5 months ago

After a recent revisit, High School High held up a lot better than remembered and it could scratch the Naked Gun-type spoof itch you may have.

Movie News

The Naked Gun director David Zucker on reboot: “Totally missed it”

Posted 9 months ago

David Zucker directed the original Naked Gun movie and he thinks the new reboot starring Liam Neeson "totally missed it."

Movie News

The Naked Gun director David Zucker reacts to the success of the reboot: “I’m not gonna see it”

Posted 1 year ago

David Zucker is thrilled that The Naked Gun reboot is doing so well, but he still doesn't plan on watching it.

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The creators of The Naked Gun are upset that the Seth MacFarlane / Liam Neeson reboot is moving forward without their input

The Naked Gun: Liam Neeson says he’s had talks of starring in reboot

Posted 6 years ago

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! remains a comedy classic almost entirely due to the deadpan brilliance of Leslie Nielsen, so it's hard to imagine anyone else following in his footsteps. Hollywood has been attempting to reboot...

Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net: Batgirl, Shutter Island, Star-Lord

Posted 6 years ago

Theodore Some cliche somewhere said that 'a picture is worth a thousand words.' This has proven to be the case for me and especially when it comes to fan art. I have always sought out great fan art and have...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Top Secret!

Posted 6 years ago

Chris Welcome to The Best Movie You NEVER Saw, a column dedicated to examining films that have flown under the radar or gained traction throughout the years, earning them a place as a cult classic or underrated gem that was...

Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net: Logan, Naked Gun, Roger Rabbit, Yoda

Posted 8 years ago

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: George Kennedy

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of enigmatic director Terrence Malick. This week’s actor is a guy celebrated for a totally different kind of work, but a late icon who made his mark in a big...

Quentin Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema will screen Airplane! for 9/11

Posted 11 years ago

The New Beverly Cinema located on (you guessed it) Beverly Blvd in Los Angeles, California, has been owned by Quentin Tarantino since December of 2007. He's been quoted as saying, "As long as I'm alive, and as long as I'm...

Read JoBlo’s own unproduced comedy screenplay entitled “Skool!”

Posted 11 years ago

For the 17th anniversary of this site's inception (March 1998), I thought it might be fun to share 1 out of the 4 screenplays I wrote after finishing my MBA back in 1996, as I was looking for a job,...

Ed Helms set to play Detective Frank Drebin in a reboot of The Naked Gun!

Posted 13 years ago

Now this is some reboot news I can get behind. Paramount has tapped Ed Helms to play legendary Detective Frank Drebin in a reboot of THE NAKED GUN: FROM THE FILES OF POLICE SQUAD! Previously portrayed by Leslie Nielsen with...

Movie Reviews

Review: Scary Movie 5

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Spoofing the movie MAMA, a young couple, Dan (Simon Rex) and Jody (Ashley Tisdale), gets custody of Dan’s late brother’s kids, who are haunted by a ghostly spectre. REVIEW: Every once in a while a movie comes along that’s...

More self-referential jokes from Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan in this new clip for Scary Movie 5

Posted 13 years ago

With a seven year gap between films four and five and the similiar parody A HAUNTED HOUSE just released not too long ago, I can’t help but think this may be the last film we see in the SCARY MOVIE...