Look out sports! Liam Neeson is fully armed and hunting down professional athletes at the ESPN offices in the new trailer for The Naked Gun sequel.
As the release date for the legacy sequel looms closer, several first looks at the feature have been put out over the last several weeks. One was released earlier today via IGN’s official YouTube, titled ‘Frank Drebin Jr. is on The Case at ESPN,’ which features Neeson as Drebin going “into the depths of ESPN to investigate a suite of crimes plaguing the sports world.” Drebin confronts MLB infielder Mookie Betts and WNBA point guard Paige Bueckers about stealing, fangirls over former NFL star quarterback Eli Manning, and scolds NHL defenseman Adam Fox in the bathroom for fighting. The video ends with Dreblin going to arrest a Beaver mascot for not washing his hands after going to the bathroom, real criminal stuff.
This will be the fourth film in The Naked Gun franchise and will see Drebin trying to follow in his legendary father’s footsteps. The original Paramount Pictures’ Naked Gun trilogy featured Leslie as “Franklin “Frank” Drebin, a good-hearted yet gullible detective at the center of a police procedural parody.” The first movie, released in 1988 and titled The Naked Gun: From the Files of a Police Squad, was a critical and commercial success, leading to two sequels: 1991’s The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear and 1994’s Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult.
Pamela Anderson also stars alongside Neeson in the film, with other appearances by Paul Walter Hauser, Danny Huston, Kevin Durand, Liza Koshy, and CHH Rhodes. The feature was directed by Akiva Schaffer, a member of the comedy troupe The Lonely Island, from a script he co-wrote with Dan Gregor and Doug Mand. Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins produced the film sequel.
The Naked Gun will hit theaters nationwide on August 1st.

